1999 Subaru Legacy Wagon: Hit a curb slightly while making a tight slow turn, guess the curb was wedged under Driver Front side and when backing up, it pulled the corner off, stripping the bolt holes.

 

This is the wife's car - didn't realize how low to the ground everything is. Her model looks like this:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Subaru_Legacy_30th.jpg

 

So yeah, looks like the bolt holes are now stripped. The front left is seperated from right in front of the wheel and then a bit wrapping over into the front side.

 

How difficult is it to repair / pop back into place? If I bring it to a small shop, would they be able to create some new holes to secure everything pretty easily? Or do I need to take this to a body shop (gulp).

Car has 126k on it so I really don't want to spend a lot and just want it to be secured - then I can put some touch up paint on it.

 

Any advice appreciated!!

Edited November 17, 201411 yr by yesyeah

hard to tell without seeing the carnage but people use cable ties frequently  to secure parts that get torn loose. if you have sufficient access a nut and through-bolt will work as well. and there is always duct tape for those of us who don't mind really obvious fastening

sounds like it would be really easy to fix, post an actual picture of the damage and we can advise.  i've rebuilt a few Subarus, including a few times from one the same generation as yours.  "a stripped bolt hole" doesn't give me enough to go on.