If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re almost certainly keen to manage most of the maintenance to be completed on your Buick Lucerne, but some are more complicated than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or elements to access the part you want to work on. We would like to help you in this operation. That’s why on this web page we are going to see how to remove the bumper from a Buick Lucerne. This procedure is not very complicated and you should be able to do it with few equipment. For that, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Buick Lucerne, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.

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How to remove the front bumper from a Buick Lucerne

So let’s begin our article content with the front bumper of your Buick Lucerne. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the simple steps you will have to stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Buick Lucerne in good conditions:

  • If you want to be more comfy, we encourage you to put your Buick Lucerne on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a best access to the whole front bumper.
  • Open the bonnet of your vehicle: Seems obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
  • Take away 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 Buick Lucerne. Depending on your vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to accomplish this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it delicately 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 Buick Lucerne 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 Buick Lucerne 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.
  • Make sure 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 using a carpet or other to avoid 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 Buick Lucerne, to put it back in place stick to the steps in the opposite way.

How to remove the rear bumper from a Buick Lucerne

And to conclude, even if the process is quite identical, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Buick Lucerne. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will just give you the broad outlines, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more information.

  • Start by carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Buick Lucerne and take out your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Buick Lucerne serenely
  • Remove the rear wheel arches of your Buick Lucerne to access the side bumper side brackets
  • Open your trunk
  • Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less difficult to remove the bumper from your Buick Lucerne.
  • Take away the lower bindings underneath your Buick Lucerne.
  • At the same time, make sure to disconnect 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 Buick Lucerne, stick to the same process as for the front bumper

Here, you have discoverd through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Buick Lucerne whether it is the front one or the rear one the ways are just about the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.

If you need more guides on the Buick Lucerne, go to our Buick Lucerne category.