I had a cosmetic-only accident back in November. Work schedule being what it is, I am just now getting it back on the road.

I got a new hood (harwood ram-air), pass headlight assy, and used front clip. Nothing structural was even close to being hurt beyond the headlight taking a trip elsewhere. Plastic tears and scratches easily.

Anyway, the passenger fender lined up really well. The hood took a while to get square.

I fastened the fascia with the pins through the plastic support while i worked elsewhere. I was careful to leave most fasteners loose so adjustments could be made. I got the rear of each fender properly aligned with the door, body lines, etc. and tighened only the rear bolts.

When I put the plates on that hold the fascia and fenders together the pass fender and the fascia seemed stressed and the gap between the hood and fascia was bigger than expected. I took the pins out of the top edge of the fascia and it settled into a much better position, but now the holes don't line up with the plastic support structure. On top of that, the passenger fender still seems to be stressed as the top edge of the fender has three waves that coincide with the top edge bolts (remember, I left these loose). The passenger-side is fine and even the leading edge is mating very well with the fascia (better than stock).

It looks like there is some adjustment possible with the plastic support structure, but apparently I haven't found all the bolts to loosen this thing and get it to move.

Manual doesn't cover it and I'm running out of ideas. With only myself looking at it I'm needing others' experience to chime in here. I'd like to get it to the paint shop in the next few weeks and this is one of the few stumbling blocks I have left. I've done a good bit of this kind of work in the past, but this is my first try at fixing something with plastic panels. My car has been in the body shop twice before, but that's when it was still relatively young and the other folk's insurance paid for it.

This time my insurance wanted total the car and I couldn't let that happen so I took whatever money they would give me and am trying to get my baby back in good health and beauty.

FWIW - I went through a fence after sliding on a slick road with no other cars involved, narrowly missing a utility pole. One post stopped the car ( I was going real slow), but the fence pulled up and over the car gouging the front-end plastic and tearing it in a few places (larger tears than I figured I could repair ).

I might be able to post a picture later of the alignment issue if i get a chance.

thanks.