Girlfriend skidded off the road into a bush - repair price?

[klaudmjj]

As the title says, my girlfriend skidded off the road on a bend into a bush, the bumper has unclipped, left front wheel is distorted, when going at 20mph+ the whole car shakes because of that distorted wheel, gets worse the faster she goes to the point where it feels like an earthquake at 40+ mph. The car is a Citreon C1 2012. What repair bill would she be looking at to fix the distorted wheel as that is the priority? And also the bumper, from what I have looked its just the clips that have broken off near the wheel arch.
Here is a short clip of the damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZeAenGfYI

[steveo3002]

30 for a used wheel and tyre (fit the spare for now), bumper clip is 10 if its broken

might be worth having the tracking checked /good look for bent suspension too

[Welshbeef]

Give it a good clean.

The wheel - steel - can be replaced for a very low price but then you’ve the cost to remove and refit the tyre (if the wheel isn’t leaking .... )

Bumper clips are all plastic you’ll need to have a good root around underneath to see which are snapped and twisted/stretched ... but a complete new front bumper clip set will be low price.

Search YouTube there will be a video somewhere of someone else removing it so study it to know where the clips are & avoid any further damage.

Lastly /but most important is your mrs hurt / physically or shaken up from the incident.

[shtu]

Not massive.

Get a new wheel on it straight away, dunno if C1s have proper spares onboard.

After that, have a look at the suspension on that corner, bending the lower balljoint or steering arm is quite common in that type of impact, though neither are ridiculously priced. An alignment check might be a good idea.

The bodywork? Bit of a wash, few trim clips and some tcut, and it'll be good enough.

[klaudmjj]

She isn’t hurt, just a bit shaken up by it as she is quite new to driving. I’ll take her to work tomorrow in my car and bring hers to a garage to get quoted up and inspected properly. Just hoping that there is no suspension damage, the road was a 30mph speed limit so she wouldn’t have been going faster than that.

[donkmeister]

klaudmjj said:

Just hoping that there is no suspension damage, the road was a 30mph speed limit so she wouldn’t have been going faster than that.

The messed up wheel is the first thing to change (put the spare on), you'd be amazed at the problems caused by a wheel being even slightly out of round and true.

For the suspension, it's luck of the draw to an extent... I skidded on ice and mounted a kerb sideways at around 5mph and needed a new control arm and hub, yet Mrs D hit a misplaced tree hard enough at 30mph to drive on 2 wheels for a bit (awesome) and the only evidence was a slightly bent track rod and a burst tyre. Both GM cars with the same or similar suspension. Those were two relatively extreme cases but the difference was the direction of the forces on the suspension components (they're designed for mostly uppy-downy, not so much side-to-side).

You can usually see if something is or isn't bent when you look at it, especially when the damage is fresh. So have a good poke about when you are changing the wheel. Use a torch.