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Crooked Bumper

Started by MIPS, January 20, 2025, 11:09:12 AM

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January 20, 2025, 11:09:12 AM Last Edit: January 20, 2025, 11:14:16 AM by MIPS
While working on an unrelated job over the weekend I took a glance at the car and realized my bumper was crooked.
At some point in the life of this car it saw a pretty bad crash on the front passenger side but it was pulled out and mostly repaired. There's still a crease in the fender and weird fitment issues with the bumper cap but it was more or less square. Now I can visibly see while looking at photos I took in September that the passenger side is pushed in about half an inch causing the passenger side bumper cap to excessively buckle and the other side to pop out of its slot on the end of the bumper.

This car does not have the 5mph shock absorbers on the bumper but I'm doing a visual inspection and cannot see any signs of bent, deformed or shifted mounts or bodywork other than the small amount from previous acccident long ago, so either this happened in the recent past and the road grit's had time to mask it or I'm missing another point somewhere else where it moved.
It's way too cold right now to be handling the plastics but is there an adjustment somewhere I can use to realign the bumper or will I need to elongate the bolt holes on the passenger bracket to shift it forward?
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