Updating the saga of the damaged front bumper on the car, the one that was further damaged as per a few posts back.
Finally managed to get the front bumper off again and this time completely stripped apart, not a hard job, but one I put off because I am just too lazy. Anyway things are a lot worse that I had imagined with the spring bar that provides the rebound should the car be in an accident. Yes I know it certainly isn't a crumple zone design on this car. The bar is out of whack in just about every plane you could measure/test it by. Both ends are twisted in different directions and the symmetry of the bars design in completely out as one side had obviously had a fair hit at some time. I think it is well past saving and will need a replacement, which will hopefully twist the valance and the chrome dress bar back into shape, they both seem to be fairly much in the correct shape when it is all apart anyway.
A well skilled friend in Canberra is going to do some welding for me and hopefully we will replace either one or both of the bumper mount bars that hold the bar to the car. One of the ones on the car had lost its threaded section when I first got the car and a bolt was then welded to the stub that was left, which has worked well enough, though doesn't look too pretty. the other bar is now loose at the front and the threaded section now has a distinct bend upwards, which is a direct result of the parking speed "nudge".
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