Q: Broken differential.

asked by on February 17, 2017

I tapped a curb going less than 5km/h and a claim has been made against me saying I broke the differential from this. The axels were not damaged and the vehicle ran for over a month after the incident. I don't think this is possible.

My car has 250000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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