Thread: Please make me feel better broke my disco and trying not to get depressed about it.

Get it up to normal height before driving then remove the 20A main suspension fuse from the engine bay fuse box. Then remove the 5A suspension fuse from the passenger compartment fuse box (behind the glove box) so that you don't get an annoying 50 kph message every minute or so, only once on startup.

Check behind the RR wheel to make sure nothing got broken.

The compressor is in front of the left rear wheel but no need to touch that to stop the suspension from lowering.

Removing the compressor relay will not stop the suspension from lowering.

You may have bent/broke a bolt in the rear control arms / mountings, especially if the rear wheel took the brunt of the hit at an angle (which would account for the lack of serious body damage). In that case the wheel will not track straight when driving, requiring you to turn the steering off-centre to maintain a straight path. Jack the car up (from the chassis), put it on car stands and check for movement of the wheel.

Cheers,

Gordon

Originally Posted by Graeme

Get it up to normal height before driving then remove the 20A main suspension fuse from the engine bay fuse box. Then remove the 5A suspension fuse from the passenger compartment fuse box (behind the glove box) so that you don't get an annoying 50 kph message every minute or so, only once on startup.

Check behind the RR wheel to make sure nothing got broken.

The compressor is in front of the left rear wheel but no need to touch that to stop the suspension from lowering.

Removing the compressor relay will not stop the suspension from lowering.

Thanks for the advice I'm about to do as you suggest. have taken the right rear wheel off no obvious damage apart from the following pic of a the upper ball joint. gonna need to drive it to Perth 1400kms for four wheel alignment. Not ideal at all but nothing really I can do about it. Any suggestions for otherwise? Picture is reversed for some reason

That'd do it!

Yep, that would do it, I'd say.

My 2 bobs worth --- Any local mechanic should be able to sort that out without too much fuss - get online and get a rear upper control arm complete assembly (including ball joint and bushes) delivered to you and get the nearest mechanic to fit (or do it yourself it's pretty easy) - I don't think rear upper has anything much to do with alignment so change it and you should be ok to go when changed.

Originally Posted by Epic pooh

Yep, that would do it, I'd say.

My 2 bobs worth --- Any local mechanic should be able to sort that out without too much fuss - get online and get a rear upper control arm complete assembly (including ball joint and bushes) delivered to you and get the nearest mechanic to fit (or do it yourself it's pretty easy) - I don't think rear upper has anything much to do with alignment so change it and you should be ok to go when changed.

I will get one and change it myself. I had a look at removing it. I'm pretty sure it does affect alignment
And when I loosened off the bolt to see of I could move it closer to normal, I could tell the hub and disc where moving laterally in and or out depending on which way I turned the bolt. But a new one will go along way to getting it closer.

I've been through a lot of suspension 'issues' (read wear and tear) on mine and have had a lot of wheel alignments and I am pretty sure that the rear adjustment is only the lower arms (could be wrong, don't have technical docs to hand) - but either way, you'd be traveling a lot straighter with a ball joint that's in the right place !

Good luck and hope you can get one and fit it up without too much pain (maybe you could temporarily try to repair it with a hammer and a crow bar ... !??!).

Just out of interest, couldn't you get a wheel align done at Port Hedland (assuming your nanocom can engage tight tolerance mode) ?

Cheers,
Mick

[QUOTE=Epic pooh;2129852]I've been through a lot of suspension 'issues' (read wear and tear) on mine and have had a lot of wheel alignments and I am pretty sure that the rear adjustment is only the lower arms (could be wrong, don't have technical docs to hand) - but either way, you'd be traveling a lot straighter with a ball joint that's in the right place !

Good luck and hope you can get one and fit it up without too much pain (maybe you could temporarily try to repair it with a hammer and a crow bar ... !??!).

Just out of interest, couldn't you get a wheel align done at Port Hedland (assuming your nanocom can engage tight tolerance mode) ?

Cheers,
Mick[/QUOTE
I did try hammer and crow bar to no avail. Will get a new one. Did also consider port hedland but I need to go to Perth in June for some other stuff and won't be using very much till then. Have the wife's car. I would rather leave it with a mechanic I trust in Perth while doing some personal business and I can catch up with some friends / family while I'm down there on a weeks holiday. Still kicking myself over it though it seems a lot worse the first day when you have just done it. A days thinking and checking it out makes things a little bit better