Hit curb left front tire/wheel - potential damages?

today i could hear grind while driving on curves....

 

Checked it out with the dealer today...hum sound obvious when swerving right at 50+ mph, clearly left wb going bad. Swerving on left was ok. The mechanic was clueless as to which side bearing was bad until i mentioned it was left. When they replaced the wheel, apparently they checked out wb, tie rod and said they were ok. Not sure whether they really examined those properly. I really have my doubts about how good the dealer mechanics are. Yes, he did indicate about realigning after replacing wb/hub assembly.
New WB plus installation plus alignment all together I am looking at another $600 -$700 making my total ~$1000, which is my 'mental' limit before I go to insurance. My deductible is $250. The primary concern is if other parts are bad/needs repair,especially given that I have my doubts on the dealer's mechanics. So, I am inclining towards calling insurance to check if they would honor my wheel replacement expenses plus wb

@Frodoz: Based on your wife's experience in the insurance industry, any idea roughly how much premium typically goes up go up if the claim is settled betweeen $1000-$2000. Clean record so far.

 

What, $185, is FL that cheap?!!! The hub/wb price quoted by the dealer here was $330. With on-going discounts, I could get it for ~$250. They quoted installation of $295.

 

Changed left wb/hub assembly and realigned. Specifically instructed dealer to check front suspension prior to realignment - all good here, apparently. The RR camber became -1.0 (from -0.8), now at the boundary of the range specified. The Left side numbers stayed same. The hum sound is gone while swerving left or right. Went for a test drive with the dealer guy - all seemed good.

However, now that I have been driving for a week, I guess I hear sometimes a mild growl (I may be wrong here in describing the sound) towards the center right. Normal driving I cannot hear this but I have to on a silent road (not much traffic) to hear this. Of course, I do not hear it all times or at all speeds. Yesterday, I test drove on the freeway different speeds - it looked like the sound was obvious at ~50 mph but when I drove on a "good" road (i.e., really smooth) at the same speeds, I could not hear that. This really put me in a bind as to whether there is really something going on. I even tried to record the sound while driving but the normal running sound overpowers this underlying noise. In addition, sometimes over the past week, I could feel a grind under my gas pedal when accelerating. To me it looks like there is something going on since I know how my car was prior to hitting that damn curb. However, since I cannot seem to "hear" this odd sound or the grind all the time or whether I even hear anything makes it hard to tell. Not sure whether whatever is happening is just due to the minor misalignment that I have or do I really have something else going on here. Any thoughts or experience to this end would be appreciated.

 

edthefox5: That's scary, especially if it turns out it is the transmisstion. One question on the trans fluid check - won't you anyway find some metal particles/pieces due to regular wear?I have about 36k miles.

 

btw, one of the posts here on cvt mentioned sound like 'gravel inside a cylinder'...that is probably the best and closest description that i hear at times....