1999 Honda Accord. 280K miles. As I was parallel parking moving slowly, I bumped the curb with the front wheels. It wasn’t a hard bump, but just a nudge to feel where curb was. And then I heard a crunch.
I went out to investigate, and it looks like the drivers side wheel collapsed. I could not investigate further because I had an event to get to.
Alas, what are the possibilities, that would cause something like this. The bump on the curb wasn’t even jarring.
I will investigate further when it is light out tomorrow.
Sounds like a busted ball joint.
Ball joint separated. Very bad. Luckily it happened at low speed. Either it was recently installed incorrectly or you’ve been ignoring some very nasty noises for some time now.
It looks like the ball joint and axle have been damaged. I don’t know if the axle caused the ball joint to fail, or if the ball joint caused the axle to fail.
@kaizen Hopefully the impact didn't damage the transaxle where that inner axle tripod is supposed to go.
Hopefully!
@kaizen after seeing your photo, you were lucky it happened on that curb jeez