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we got close to 5 feet of snow last night, and the roads were packed with snow. i had no problem driving in this weather, nothing the hand brake can't fix if it starts to understeer. but this time it was diffrent i has going 20km/h, hit the brakes went down to 15km/h, and the things went bad. locked up the wheels, steered all the way to the right and smoked a curb with my left front wheel.

freaking out, ran out to check out the damage: my hubcap was scrached and in the spot were it impacted went in to the rim, tire hold air, and the rim seams fine. so driving home i start knowticing that for me to go streight on the snow my streeing wheel has to be like 30 degrees of center to the left.

as soon as i got in to my uderground parking this got worse: the power streering feels diffrent and the steering wheel does not want to go back to center if you led go of it it just stays where i leave it. when making a left turn it feels like the front wheels are not folowing the same path but visualy both wheels look centered.

its killing me becouse i can make that turn doing 45km\h with hand braking the slide, and here i was going slow and fcked up the car.

by looking at the rim it looks only skrached, and the hubcap got only pushed in so the impact should not have dome alot of damage, this does not explain the streering not going back to center and being off center when driving streight.

help me out guy what can it be.

PS: this is my first accident

 
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5 Feet? The weather guys say Hamilton got 23 cm (10 inches) Please check to make sure you are not lying down.

Your Chevy Aveo/Suzuki Swift+S/Pontiac Wave ( which is really a Daewoo POS) has likely screwed the alignment, if not bent a suspension piece.

 
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by bad i meant to say the snow drifts wore as high as 5 feet,

pos or not still gata get it fixed and scared as hell if its not the alinment

 
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It doesn't sound like a big bang. Does the wheel look at all unnatural? Leaning in or out? You'll need to lift it up and inspect everything to see what's been affected. Could be very minor or could be something shifted the whole front end a bit.

 
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it looks fine, but i think it is a bit turned right when the stering is streight.
also when i turn to the left its evedent that sumething is not right in the stering feel. but other then that the car drive fine with out any noices.

 
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went to crappy tire in downtown. the rim was bent and the alinement was off, nothing else was bent and the frame is still perfict.

all in all cost me 169$ for the new rim install and balance and alinment of all 4 wheels.

 
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its a shitty accident my cousin had just got into the same thing.. good luck with everything brother