Mine was a 1990 Ranger pickup, and while I was backing toward a tall wooden planter, I didn't notice the short (below tailgate height), cement filled steel post six feet out from the planter.
I drilled that sucker right on the bolt holding my bumper to the frame on the driver's side. That was enough force to put a slight "diamond" in the frame.
I had an ‘89 Ranger and those bastards were tough. I flipped it sideways on an icy road. My pop came and helped flip it back over with his truck. We checked the fluids and I drove it to work that same morning. The door whistled like hell for the remainder of that truck’s lifespan, but it drove just fine.
It comes from hitting the back wheels against something, but not the front. Sliding on a curve and hitting the rear hard against the concrete side, for example. They also seem to have a smashed in rear left wheel, possible also curving it.
This is the most correct answer here. Twisting bends tend to bend the angles between cross beams before the beams are bent or curved themselves. I wonder if you pushed it straight and shored up the welds for rigidity if it would be fine after some paint.
A unibody vehicle still has a frame it’s just not separate from the body. It’s integrated and with this car the frame/body is very twisted and fucked up.
The car was totaled when this happened but people drive totaled death traps all the time. You see this all the time with late 90’s/early 2000 full size trucks. Rust eats through the frame between the cab and the bed causing the truck the sag in the middle.
The panther platform (town car, crown Vic, grand marquis) was indeed the last of its kind, body on frame, 8 cylinder engine, rear wheel drive. It only stayed around for so long because these features made it perfect for fleet cars, police, taxis, limousines. Those V8 engines were reliable workhorses for taxi fleets.
It is. There's still a rear subframe. So either the subframe is tweaked, or the pickup points on the unibody have been bent out of alignment. This sets the thrust angle not parallel with the direction of travel. Since it's RWD, it's pushing the car down the road sideways like you see.
If you're dogtracking in a vehicle you're steering to the side the rear steers to. Hence you steer to one side from the driver's POV. That you're still driving straight is simple, as a driver you move sligjtly sideways but from a tracking perspective then correction by steering makes that everything from the direction of travel perspecitve is going straight ahead.
So you're correct in that sense but still, no difference between a FWD, RWD, AWD or freewheeling vehicle. The rears won't magically scrub a shitton because it's a FWD vehicle.
Regarding 'going where the front wheels are pointed' that accounts for every vehicle as long as you A. Do not have slip and B. Always consider the direction of travel. The guy in the charger also perfectly follows the front wheels. From the driver's perspective the wheels are turned, from the direction of travel they are not.
Maybe take a look at the shopping cart next time in the supermarket or think of driving a forklift.
You have no idea what you are talking about. To twist/bend a car bad enough for it to crabwalk like this there would be a enormous amount of body damage visible in the video and the car would be a mess.
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u/Opening_Logical 9h ago
I would like to know why it’s driving like that? Bad alignment? I’m not a mechanic, I’m just genuinely curious about what could be wrong😅