Has A Pothole Damaged Your Car?

[IM-32-FK]

I was pulling up to a 7/11 servo and right at the entrance there was this massive pothole...i mean this was at least 20cm deep...i drove over it at around 10-15km/h and the bang noises the suspension made scared me. I noticed that my steering wheel felt a little more loose than usual ever since this happened. So i was wondering what are the things i should check on my car to see if the pothole did any damage to the car...like the radius rods, control arms, etc... what is the list of things i should check because if anything did happen im gonna ask 7-11 to pay for the damages...

thanks

[GTSBoy]

Tie rod ends, (both inner and outer, most likely outer).

Lower ball joints. Unlikely but possible.

Caster rods. Perhaps.

Pretty much any other of the upper and lower arm bushes - could have been stretched/crushed/distorted.

[r32-25t]

If the pot hole was in the actual road you need to be chasing the coucil or rms depending on who owns the road.

But in any case good luck ever getting the money out of any of them

[RiseofBrutality]

I hit a pothole on Merrylands Rd one night, snapped my whiteline camber arm clean.

I didn't bother chasing the council about it> I read a number of threads on here about guys doing the same thing and after a long drawn out battle, walking away with nothing

[SargeRX8]

Yep where i work had one guy snap something up front and another guy somehow snapped an exhaust mount. Council will drag it on and on until you forget an give up.