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schlicky13 November 5, 2012
No, the camera is not tilted, this picture was taken with the camera completely straight and the car parked on a flat, level surface. The tilt you're seeing, is something broken... crap. Turned out that the strut on that side (that I knew had been failing and had been putting off repairing because I didn't have the money for parts yet) blew out while going around a corner. It got better, once I got it home, very, very slowly, I might add, I crawled under and discovered the full extent of the damage. When the strut blew, it threw everything off so quickly and violently, that it snapped the end link on the other side, sent the sway bar into the CV halfshaft destroying the outer boot and damaging the end of the sway bar, yeah it wasn't pretty under there. And it conveniently happened 1 month before I was supposed to leave for a road trip down to St. Louis, hence why I was short on funds, it was going towards the trip. So, I borrowed a car for a few weeks, saved up some money, pulled out the credit card, bit the bullet and bought absolutely every new part for the front end of the car. Replaced the struts, springs, bearing plates, outer tie rod ends, ball joints, control arm bushings, end links, CV halfshafts, wheel bearings, I'm forgetting some stuff but you get the idea. The plan was I was never, ever, going to have to fix anything under there again. That didn't pan out, since the damaged sway bar that I thought could still be used, broke the next year as a combined result of the damage inflicted and just overall age/use/rust/etc. I just replaced that with an upgraded unit recently. Now I just need to get around to doing the back end, the air shocks both went out within months of each other, and I plan to do the same, replace everything, so I never have to touch it ever again.

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