Control arm hitting shock

[ajtopal]

Need I say more my control arm is hitting my soft over bumps and I don't know how to fix it.

[mazda/nissan]

how is it doing that? upper/lower?

[Mach929]

lol what?? front/rear/upper/lower? wtf, something is way not right

[Savington]

Something is seriously fucked. Your control arms shouldn't come near the shocks.

You mean the control arm is hitting the antiroll bar?

[MX_Eva]

I'm pretty sure that must be what he means. There's no way a shock is hitting what it's attached to (i.e. lower control arm) and by no means should hit the upper.

[mazda/nissan]

unless he had a bent to hell shock

[JustJake]

Pictures of touching?

[miataz]

new arm

fucked up arm(thats supposed to be straight)

fucked ball joints, sway stab


There can be no way your shock is hitting your arm, you see my arm, i went into a curb!! And its pretty fucked and my shock never hit it, my wheel was just rubbing against the body of my car...and fucked alot of other shit up, but never my spring, you need to double check and find out your real problem.

[mazda/nissan]

how did you find out your arm was bent? i replaced the arm that was damaged in the wreck, but now there are all sorts of wierd ass squeaks and rattles

[miataz]

Well one, i was drifting stupid me...and my brakes were shot...going to fast around the corner peer pressure...to much gas not enough brake, right down the street from school. So i went straight into the curb, smashed up rim a little, thought everything was fine until i started moving, whole wheel was pretty much inside my fender rubbing, damage it a little, tire got chewed up a little, so i got it back to my school had to get flat bedded back to my house. You can tell if its fucked, your wheel isnt in the center of the 2 fenders, and your alignments really off. I had squeaks when i turned my wheel, it was the inner tie rod, it was bent slightly and it squeaked every time i turned so, that mite be your problem.

[mazda/nissan]

no i don't get squeaks when turning and pretty much replaced everything in the front left corner of the car. I get squeaks that sound like your trying to pry a cork out of a champaign bottle when on the brakes, it is about as frequent as a warped disc, but i just changed them out and that shouldn't cause squeaking. I also get rattling when going over bumps. I may take it to wally-world and let them lube up my ride to see what it fixes.

[miataz]

yea that would probably be your best bet.

[Trent]

Originally Posted by ajtopal

Need I say more...

Details would be NICE.

Of course, we would rather you spare us from deciphering any more of your pseudo-English typing, so please just go take a picture instead.