If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re almost certainly wanting to handle almost all of the maintenance to be achieved on your Alfa Romeo Mito, but some are more challenging than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or parts to access the part you want to operate on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why in this article we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Alfa Romeo Mito. This procedure is not very challenging and you should have the ability to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Alfa Romeo Mito, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Alfa Romeo Mito
So let’s begin our article content with the front bumper of your Alfa Romeo Mito. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the guidelines you will have to adhere to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Alfa Romeo Mito in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we suggest you to put your Alfa Romeo Mito on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your vehicle: Would seem obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take out the wheel arches: They’re also known as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Alfa Romeo Mito. Depending on your vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also be able to find staples, to do this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it gently with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is in back of your mudguard and that locks the front bumper of your Alfa Romeo Mito on the sides.
- Unscrew the screws or remove the clips on the upper part of the bumper in the engine compartment.
- Now it’s time to go under your Alfa Romeo Mito to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the vehicle, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Be sure you disconnect the connection of the plate lighting and the distance control sensor if you have it.
- Carefully remove the front bumper by first unclipping the sides. If it doesn’t come off, you perhaps forgot a screw or a clip. Think of working with a carpet or other to prevent that it gets scratched by touching the ground.
That’s it, you’ve seen all the steps of how to remove the front bumper from your Alfa Romeo Mito, to put it back in place adhere to the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Alfa Romeo Mito
And to finish, regardless if the procedure is quite equivalent, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Alfa Romeo Mito. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will exclusively give you the broad outlines, refer to part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more details.
- Start by performing the same first stage, that is, lift your Alfa Romeo Mito and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Alfa Romeo Mito serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Alfa Romeo Mito to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take out the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it more convenient to remove the bumper from your Alfa Romeo Mito.
- Remove the lower bindings underneath your Alfa Romeo Mito.
- At the same time, make sure to un plug the rear license plate light and the reverse radar sensors if you are equipped with them.
- Unscrew the top brackets from the top of the trunk.
- Now all you have to do is remove the rear bumper from your Alfa Romeo Mito, adhere to the same operation as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Alfa Romeo Mito whether it is the front one or the rear one the approaches are essentially the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
If you have any additional questions about the Alfa Romeo Mito, do not hesitate to consult our Alfa Romeo Mito category.
