trailing arm bent?

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UGH! sometimes I miss stuff as I look over my car. today I figured would be a good day to change out all of the bushings in the rear, no problems took 3 hrs for all of them. My tires in the rear had worn uneven (inside edge) the bushing were all toast. I attributed the wear to those.

But, when I pulled off the passenger trailing arm, I noticed a dent on the bottom about 2" long, 1/4" deep on the bottom of the arm, almost centered between the arm mounts. Po must have hit something...


SO, is there a way I can check the arm for straightness? I would imagine that it will be a problem, the last alignment showed both rears equally bad, so maybe not. I don't know I left it off for now. Don't want to put a bad arm back on... argh! I just keep finding more retarded problems with everything I touch. As a bonus, I saved the rear for last, so this most likely is the last stupid thing I'll find wrong...

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maybe if I beat my head on it enough It will be straight, or I won't care anymore...:letitout:

[DaN]

You could take some measurements, and compare them to the non smashed trailing arm.
If the alignment angles on both sides are the same, doesn't sound like it would be a problem.

Is your car lowered? Negative camber is wearing the inside edges of your tires.

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I should have a new one coming thanks to scott. I was just too afariad to risk it. It really had some mega negative camber at stock ride height. after the time and money I have spent on this thing, a stupid trailing arm can't get in the way.
I think the alignment I had done was by an idot anyways, there is no way I could have equal measurements with tire wear like I have. However at the moment, I'm thinking I would have been better off having scott send me a whole car last year, rather than piece by piece :)