Hello all . Hoping somebody can give advice. Wife ran over a dead deer in the center of the road, cracking lower left fender and tearing fender liner out . I removed both front wheels and looked for any play, bent or broken components. Nothing, everything is tight and looks good. The steering wheel is slightly off to the right by about an inch. I'm certain it needs an alignment, but other than that I can find nothing mechanically wrong . When I get the car on the highway and hit about 65 miles an hour there is a slight vibration from engine ?or transmission ?but not transmitted through the steering wheel. You can feel it under your feet and your seat. At highway speed of 65, if you give it more gas the vibration gets worse and lessens if you release the pedal. I can't see how an alignment would fix this and as it's only under acceleration at speed but not while coasting at speed. If anyone can help i'd much appreciate it.

 

Get it aligned and see if it goes away. They may find something broken while adjusting the alignment. If it doesn't go away, inspect it further.

 

sounds like a bent tie rod at a minimum...

 

The only problem is, the steering wheel does not vibrate at all. It can only be felt through the floor, pedal and seat. Immediately upon lifting my foot off the pedal, all is smooth. Really starting to wonder if a motor mount was destroyed, or somehow the inner cv was damaged ? I don't feel any back and forth looseness on cv axle, just slight in/out movement. FWIW I have a routine service and alignment scheduled upcoming. Mechanic will look everything over at that point, because I'm stumped.

 

We can sit here and suggest things but without completing the alignment, we are shooting in the dark. Report back after your routine service, or go get an alignment and see if they can do that or find other issues.

 

If you can jack it up to move the wheel, you can easily take pictures to post here.... just sayin...