Just Had A Slide (snow)

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Just coming back from my mates (mechanic ironically) and I slid gracefully and very slowly into a small hench at about 5mph! Not physical damage other than a slightly dented wheel (and ego) the sterring is now really heavy when turning left but frees up when turning right. So my question is what have I bent!? Had a look and can't see anything onbvious.

 

Cheers Ali

[Dan Ingram 1]

Track rod???

[jimbob 3]

when i had a simmilar slide in my old 205 and i damaged my lower arm, shot in the dark but definately worth looking, hope it helps.

[grandos 16]

Check your top mount isn't domed, shouldn't be at that speed but you never know.

[trogboy 17]

Front anti roll bar? It doubles up and locates the bottom arms on the base models. You might even have just shunted it across.

[205007 12]

if you cant see anything it could be the internals of the rack slightly off, was the wheel on lock at the point of impact?

[happygoron 2]

now really heavy when turning left but frees up when turning right. So my question is what have I bent!?

 

I had a similar problem with the steering weighted differently depending on direction. In total I changed strut top bearings and mounts, one TRE and the drop links, then had the tracking done. This solved it, though which bit of work solved it I don't know!