bent bracket on frame...4th gen
I just spotted this today on my car. Underneath the car right behind the driver side's front wheel and before the notch where you put the jack to jack up the car there's two brackets that are bolted together with two bolts. The bracket(s) should hang straight down, but instead it's bent completely flat against the bottom of the car. I'm assuming that the only way this could have happened was when the car was once put up on a lift incorrectly and the weight of the car bent the bracket in. I'm the third owner of the car and I haven't had it on a lift so it must have been like that before I bought it. I guess my question is what I should do about it. Should I just leave it alone? Or is this something that can be fixed? I'm not sure about trying to bend it back, because part of it is plastic and it looks like it's cracked, and I would think bending it back would just weaken it more. I've also been thinking about getting subframe connectors, but if that's a bracket they bolt onto then I won't be able to put them on if it's bent like that.
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John
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