Crashed 2006 x5 issue

[Wreckerd]

Front wheels are toe out about 5-10 degrees.
I’ve just got this car, front quarter rippled.
It’s had a new wishbone, strut since accident.
The chassis is straight, but someone’s gone to the trouble of making it drivable, just, but then stopped.
I don’t get how the wheels are toe out if everything’s lined out right. The trackings not been adjusted.

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[Wreckerd]

It’s pretty obvious what’s been replaced.

[kev b]

If a new wishbone has been fitted then the tracking will need adjusting, the new wishbone and its rubber bushes will not be exactly the same.

[Evolved]

It’s been bumped and bodged. Simple as that really.

I don’t understand what you’re asking. Without measuring the chassis and pick up points, it’s impossible to say what’s bent really. Could be anything.

[Wreckerd]

I’ve removed the track rod end to check it,!which is fine but the boot is wrecked from being jammed against the skid plate. But the wheels not moved that far as the bits around the wheel well are fine and not disturbed.

[InitialDave]

No one can tell you anything useful from this level of description and photos.

It's had a smack, someone's bodged enough to still be mobile, something else is still bent. Probably a few somethings.

[kev b]

One turn of the track rod end on its threads will alter the toe by more than 1mm, thats how sensitive the geometry is.
It needs a proper check on a four wheel alignment machine by someone who knows what they are doing.

[stevieturbo]

Wreckerd said:

Front wheels are toe out about 5-10 degrees.
I’ve just got this car, front quarter rippled.
It’s had a new wishbone, strut since accident.
The chassis is straight, but someone’s gone to the trouble of making it drivable, just, but then stopped.
I don’t get how the wheels are toe out if everything’s lined out right. The trackings not been adjusted.

They've done a bare minmum to get the car rolling so they can find some fool to buy it off them who will hope the car is straight and a cheap and easy fix.

And how on earth do you think everything is lined out right if nothing has been adjusted ? and it's a random crashed car with various spurious new parts thrown at it.

This thread is mental.

[LimSlip]

Something is obviously bent, the steering rack should never be that close to the subframe. Maybe the rack itself, or rack mountings or the subframe.