After taking delivery of my TTS, i noticed the front right wheel rim had a pretty significant (i.e. 1 inch) chunk broken off, probably from hitting a curb or something. At the same time the car has been pulling to the right. Alignment didn't help. Workshop says my caster is off and can't be adjusted with alignment; their theory is that one or more suspension parts is probably damaged because of the hit to the rim. Visual inspection of didn't show anything, so they'll try changing various parts (control arm, shocks, etc) and try each one. This process will be time consuming and potentially expensive. So I'd like to ask, what parts are MOST LIKELY impacted? I may tell them to change one or two parts as a "best guess" based on probability of damage from something like this.

 

had a buddy hit a curb while trying to avoid a car changing into his lane at est 40-50 mph on a 19 inch rim. Jacked the rim up bad and broke his PSS10 shock on that side of the car. I think the mount as well. Your incident does not sound like it was as bad.

Bought a Viper SRT 10 years ago and it wobbled some or they also call it trammeled left to right. One of the ft wheels had been repaired and turns out that I had to replace the steering knuckle and upper control arm as it was damaged from some kind of impact. Good luck.

 

When caster is your problem, first to go (stretch or bend) is the diagnal arm that holds the control arm in the correct place. It's impossible to see and only when you lay the old arm and the new arm next to eachother you can spot it.

Very unlikely that the shock is bent, usually you'll crack the hub/upright before a shock bends, you should ask the shop to inspect the hub on the inside just for precaution, just search it for cracks on the inside around the shock strut and drive shaft, (when they change the diagonal arm)