[ewalberg]

remember this car's frame is glued together. It might still be holding together buy what and how much residual stress just got transmitted into the frame? What i mean is that while which the car is designed to take some "normal" impacts without risidual damage to the frame, dropping one like this is not "normal" and i'd be worried about the frame now having internal stresses that are going to prematurely cause a bond failure.

I think you need to look up a high performance shop. Beleive it or not, this is the kind of mistake that i think would get repeated, unless you're absolutely sure it's the same guy working on it every time.... which is impossible.

to the wheel balancing fellow, you also need to find yourself a high performance wheel balancing shop. In the end it's worth the money and saves time. The america's tire in my neighborhood can't balance a tire to save a life if it's on their standard equipment which comes with a normal balancing package. If they put them on there Road-force matching machine (which is extra every time which i didn't want to spend) it'll come out okay but, but every time i brought my car to them after 5k miles from a "good" shop they were worse when i drove out than when i drove in.

Balancing machines need maintenance and care, and America's tire was trying to get me to believe theirs were within calibration. If they were than the specs are way too loose. How do they get away with it all day long? Most drivers drive soft suspended marshmellow cars and they just can't feel that something is not that balanced. I've drivens friends honda civics that i wouldn't take on the freeway the balance was so bad and they thought it was okay for a 3 hour road trip each way.