Headlight mount - Toyota Corolla Levin, 1.6 L, 1991

Once the headlight mount has broken, now just a little something - just "crack" ... Maybe, of course, you shouldn't stick your muzzle into the snowdrifts? Well, okay, the reason is not so important now. More importantly, leaving the house in the morning and approaching the car, I noticed that she was looking at me so sadly ... The right headlight was turned inside. I touched it - it staggers. I opened the hood - and there the upper ear-mount broke again over the repaired one.
Here I will conduct a small excursion into history: some time ago I got to the bottom of the appearance of my car, that the muzzle is crooked, the gaps are jumping, etc. Chegevara, out of the kindness of his soul, or to stop whining, undertook to correct him. In the process of eliminating the jambs, it was found that the mounting of the right headlight is about a centimeter shorter than the right one, i.e. it was once broken, a fragment, apparently, was lost, and what was left was sealed. Well, they fixed it, increased it. However, after a snowdrift, it burst in the old place.
Well, I looked at this mess, soldered it again, and deeply doubted the reliability of the resulting connection

(because, as you already understood, it has proven itself far from the best), and decided to strengthen it. As you know, it is best to strengthen with some piece of iron! For this, the body was taken from a SONY cassette car radio

sawn with a grinder

bent in shape

crimped around an existing plastic ear.
By the way, it was not for nothing that I doubted the reliability of the fastening, in the process of "fitting" the plastic broke again. As a result, such a design came out. So far it seems pretty solid. Ahead is the Peschanka and, so to speak, sea trials.