Hit Curb, Subframe Bent?

[Hunterg]

So long story short i hit a curb with my front passenger wheel, at about 20mph. This caused a minimum of a bent control arm and tie rod end. The result was pretty extreme negative camber (which i found stance) and a fair bit of toe in.

I replaced both the control arm and tie rod end with new parts, toe fixed.. camber, no luck.
Next I went for the strut tube(used, said to be good) & wheel bearing(new), no luck.
After all these parts the negative camber has been reduced slightly, maybe ~.5 degrees, but still very significantly more than the drivers side.

So if I understand correctly the final options are a bent strut tower or a bent front subframe. Am I wrong? Is there a good way to affirm what issue remains?

Pictures show the originally bent control arm and the other sides' straight control arm.

[Massive Lee]

Measure the distance between shock towers and compare with nominal specs and another car. e30 shock towers are very soft. I don't mean that in your case they are bent, but by measuring them you can rule that out.

465mm + 465mm = 930mm



Or 1002mm, center to center

[ELVA164]

How'd you hit a curb and end up with both toe in and negative camber? Pics?

[Hunterg]

How'd you hit a curb and end up with both toe in and negative camber? Pics?

The negative camber issue has been a source of confusion for me from the start. I always assumed that hitting a curb on bottom ~1/3 of the wheel couldn't cause negative camber(if anything positive camber).
As for the toe in, it was caused by the leading edge of the wheel's impact with the curb bending the tie rod.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the original damage, but I'll upload a picture of the current situation this weekend.

[nrubenstein]

You could provide the current alignment as well...