crashed my V70 TDI

[Pupbelly]

Originally Posted by amazondean

well the nearside leg is about 20mm too high and around 15mm over to the right.
The offside leg is about 20mm too far to the right. When the bonnet shuts, there is a 20mm gap between the bonnet and the wing, tapering to nothing as you look up to the bulkhead.

There's no real damage to the wings, front inner panel or bonnet, other than a small kink at one corner. I can live with that. Basically the accident just sheared off the complete bumper with brackets. Like i said in an earlier post, the sub-frame underneath is fine. The car drives straight as a dye! and stops as it should. Even the broken headlight works on main, dipped and side lights, just the glass has broke.

If you're not worried by aesthetics I'd drive it as it is. You might be able to adjust the gaps on the wings to look less obvious with a bit of fettling, elongate the holes in the wing mounting holes maybe. At some point you might stumble across someone who has access to a some ratchet straps and a steel upright and you could have a go at pulling it into line.

Drive it until something mechanical says otherwise - better the devil you know etc.