As per title.

Hit it proper hard with front passenger wheel, dont pull to left too bad, still drivable, but let go of wheel and you off to the left pretty sharpish...

Wheel looks fairly straight, poss a bit toed out, unsure.

What am i likely to have broke, i presume you cant just knock the tracking out without actually bending summat, can you?

 

Lower arm, possibly done ARB

 

Track rod end or lower arm. Don't have to put it out by much to make it drive like a base model Corsa

 

ARB I reckon. Did the same years back on an orion in the snow. Didn't hit kerb fast but gave it a proper clout!! It drove exactly how you describe the sierra

 

As said above, good chance the track control arm will have taken the brunt of the knock and probably bent, also check that the strut aint bent as bent one in my old 4x4 after hitting a kerb in the snow arseing around !! The hub takes a wallop and in turn bends the strut just above where it slides into the hub.

 

track rod or TCA i'd imagine....nothing too major i wouldn't have thought, unless you've twisted the inner chassis mount for the TCA..but i doubt it.

 

that would be my vote

 

oh fab cheers lads, you think itd be easy visible once jacked up n wheel off, or it gonna be a case of trial and error fitting?

 

you might see slight kink where strut goes in hub but better take it out and look properly

 

ARB more difficult, can look spot on but be out by a few mill, lower ar usually easier to spot

 

done it defo track control arm

 

i dont see how the ARB can cause that like people are saying, sounds like track control arm to me.

 

Steering arm or TCA

 

TCA eh? well thats not a bad thing really, cant be hard to get one of them...

im banning myself from streeto tho i think, kerbs hurt

 

If its TCA or steering arm, you will get it more or less back how it was just by adjusting the tracking.

 

ah wicked, that sounds cheaper

its only slightly out as it is, my S12 pulled more to the left than this, but this sierra handled good before i just fucked it, so would prefer to make it drive ok again

 

Go out and clout the other side

That will balance it back up - Job done

 

TCA they are made of plastescine.
tabetha

 

TCA - you could get it tracking right by adjusting the track rod, but your castor will still be out. replace it, easy job

 

it's either going to be:
tracking, nice and simple
bent strut, nice and simple
bent tca. nice and simple
track rod end, nice and simple
bush on the arb/tca pushed out, again, nice and simple
bent steering arm, not so simple
bent crossmember, again, not so simple
top mount popped through, simple

amongst other things

then again, it might just be your wheel that's fooked