A "Love Tap" Totaled My F-150 Lightning. Can You Help?

In February, a minor rear-end collision on our way to film at Aptera left Nikki's personal (and therefore Transport Evolved's) 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning — Ortegas — with a small hairline crack in the rear bumper bracket. The truck drove fine, and while we sustained some soft tissue damage (mainly whiplash) we were able to drive Ortegas back to Oregon. When we got back, we took Ortegas to a local repair place attached to our local Ford dealership. They spent 60 seconds under the truck and claimed it was fine. Three months later, we discovered a crack just where we'd been told by cops at the scene they thought might be a hairline fracture. It had got larger. We went to a different local repair shop (recommended by another local Ford dealership) and Nikki's insurance company approved the repair. Now, one month later, the shop says the part doesn't fit and they can't find a part that does — while simultaneously stating there's no official repair procedure for this repair on the Lightni