You mention that your front bumper cover is crooked. Is this because the bodyshop was not able to fully straighten the frame and the metal bumper that the bumper cover is attached on?
A few months ago some idiot hit the front of my 2002 Mustang V6 in a hit and run. I had to pay over $700 out of my own pocket to get the front bumper repaired without using my insurance company.
When I got my Mustang back from the bodyshop, there was a gap between the top of the passenger side headlight assembly unit and the front pointed part of the right front fender where the headlight unit sits in. The gap was NOT there after the accident or when I brought my Mustang into the bodyshop. It appeared ONLY after it was repaired. The bodyshop owner didn't know WHAT CAUSED the gap. He told me that I should live with it.
As far as I know, the bodyshop pulled out the bumper a little bit on the passenger side because the front part of the bumper cover which slopes upward just below the hood next to the grill was pushed in about 1" inch from the impact. I think that the gap was caused from the pulling adjustment which the bodyshop did. The gap is about 3 millimeters wide and about 3" to 4" inches long. The top part of the rubber gasket on my passenger headlight unit is not "flush" with the fender. That's where the gap is located. The bodyshop technician told me that he measured everything and that the repair was done correctly.
What I do know is that the bodyshop which I used does NOT have a computerized and state of the art frame machine. They do have a frame machine, but it's the old type where you hook up one end of the chain to the cement floor and the other end to the frame machine which is a very small type of hydraulic jack that looks like the type of jack that mechanics use to put underneath the car to prop up the car. Once the chain is hooked up to the jack, they put another chain on the car's frame in the area that needs to be straightened out and then they pump the handle of the jack with their hands in order to put tension on the chain. This tension that's placed on the chain pulls on the frame causing it to straighten out. Whatever adjustment and straightening that he did with the front bumper, he did it by hand using the hydraulic jack.
I am wondering whether or not the hydraulic jack was not accurate enough in straightening whatever caused the small area of my front bumper to be pushed in 1" inch underneath the hood? Do you think that the gap between my headlight unit and the right front fender resulted from the inaccuracy of the hydraulic frame machine? Could it be that because the frame machine that the bodyshop used which was old was not accurate enough in straightening the bumper causing the gap to form?