Minor accident- What might be broken?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by natural_tools, Jun 14, 2005.

  1. natural_tools

    natural_tools New Member

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    A grumpy little old lady decided to test her steering wheel by changing lanes into the front passenger side of my 2004 Prius, right around the wheel. It was about a 30 MPH hit... a glancing blow. Mostly scratching and broke the mirror casing.

    Impressive resistance to denting, by the way.

    Her insurance is going to totally cover repairs and I can get it done at a Toyota dealership. So my question is: what might she have broken in Sparky's guts that I wouldn't notice from looking? I want to make sure that I don't discover a year later that she messed up the alignment or broke some sensor right under the skin or something like that. Anything I need to request they check out when they're repairing?
     
    #1 natural_tools, Jun 14, 2005
  2. DanMan32

    DanMan32 Senior Member

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    If the fender was not dented, then probably didn't break anything.
     
    #2 DanMan32, Jun 14, 2005
  3. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    If it's the front wheel, doesn't hurt to get the alignment checked and the axle for any shift.

    Just tell them what happened and suggest that they look at the front wheel alignment/steering rod/axle stuff like that.
     
    #3 Tideland Prius, Jun 14, 2005
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