I already posted this in MINI Talk, but I thought I'd try here as well.

As some of you know, I was rear ended in my barely two week old MINI last month. I waited patiently to get the car into the shop and was pleasantly surprised with their quality of work. However, I was still bugged by the fact that my exhaust tips are not perfectly straight - they still point a little to the left (as you're looking at them), although not as much as they did right after the accident. So last night I went out to take a real close look at them and found what might be the problem. In looking up through the left rear wheel well, you can see an L-shaped bar that comes up from the big exhaust box-thing (I feel stupid for not knowing what it is) that both tips go to. This L-shaped bar is held to another bar with a reddish rubber bushing-thing. On my car, it looks as though the bar from the exhaust box was pushed farther forward through it's hole in the bushing, causing the bushing to be angled and stretched slightly, which jives with where the impact came from. However, it could also be that that's how it's supposed to look. So that's where you guys come in. Can another fellow S owner snap a picture of this area for me so I can be sure? Or does someone already have a picture of this area? 'Cause if it's screwed up, I'm taking it right back to the shop to have it fixed. Thanks everyone.

 

Here's the thing I'm referring to:


In this pic, the rear of the car is to the upper right, and the left rear tire is kinda upper left.

Here's another angle:


This time the rear of the car is to the lower right and the tire is towards the top/upper right.

See how the gray metal bar coming from the exhaust box sticks out from the bushing a little ways? Is that normal? A co-worker told me there were a couple other MCSs parked nearby, so I went to take a look. I couldn't get a good look up underneath without arousing suspicion, but both of their exhaust tips were slightly off center just like mine (to the driver's side), so I'm wondering if I'm just being too **** about this.