A few weeks ago, I had a kindly older lady decide to make a left turn from the right lane directly in front of me--how she missed the enormous 6000 pound bright red truck with the chrome grille and bumpernext to her, I don't know, but my right front corner went into her B-pillar at about 25 MPH. The Dodge survived with nary a scratch, but her entire left side was caved in--her insurance company totalled her car. Nobody was hurt, but now my right headlight/turn signalis loose, which I know I can fix, and the bumper is slightly crooked but not bent or damaged, merely tilted up right under the headlight. It's not very noticeable, but I notice that the gap between the bumper and grille is slightly off. I took it to the body shop for insurance purposes and they quoted me for an entirelynew bumper, which I don't need, and didn't mention anything about the underlying support pieces. This leads me to believe it's just an adjustment. The bumper is fine, just~3/4" crooked. Is there an adjustment under there where I can loosen a few bolts and pull it back down into position? I've already got the $500 check from the insurance company, but I really don't feel like spending it on something that I can probably adjust myself in about 5 minutes and a new bumper I don't need.

Is this something that can be adjusted? Thanks in advance!

 

Bumper IS probably bent slightly but,..
On the mount itself you can build up one side with a few washers
to push it back down, (or out) if it really isn't that far off like you said.
You'll just be forcing the twist back out of the bumper by doing that.

 

I don't have any pics handy, but it you look behind the bumper, it mounts in two places using a total of 4 or 6 bolts, 2 or 3 on each side. I would first disconnect the battery, but of you loosen those bolts, get a block of wood and a small sledgehammer (about 5 lbs should do it), and carefully pound on the bumper, you should be able to straighten the bumber no problem.

Be careful though! It would suck to have the airbag deploy during the process

 

bumpers are easy to adjust if not bent too bad. there are a LOT of bolts on both sides for all the brackets and braces. spray them with pb blaster or wd40, use air gun or long pull bar and deep well 18mm. loosen them all up floppy loose. i put a couple of floor jacks under mine to hold them where i wanted, and moved it around and snugged bolts and just kept making minor adjustments to get it level and best spacing. each bolt/brace/bracket has a lot of movement available to get best fit. then torque them all down. you can do front and rear.

tip - take it to a car wash first and get all the dirt and mud off before you start moving stuff around, or else it all falls off all over you.
tip2 - use a lot pb blaster.

mine were crooked as hell from where prev owner used the bumper to pull stuff. nothing was bent but it was all just pushed and pull to the limits of the adjustments. now it looks like its supposed to.

 

+1 but if you don't have 2 floorjacks you can do one side at a time and snug the bolts up and move to the other. It maytake you a couple times back and forth to get it perfect. I did that to my2 truckseach.