If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re quite likely keen to handle the majority of the service to be carried out on your Fiat Bravo, but some are more complex than others and require the removal of body parts or components to access the component you want to operate on. We would like to help you in this operation. That’s why today we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Fiat Bravo. This process is not very complex and you should be able to do it with few tools. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Fiat Bravo, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Fiat Bravo
So let’s commence our document with the front bumper of your Fiat Bravo. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the simple steps you will have to follow in order to disassemble the bumper of your Fiat Bravo in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we suggest you to put your Fiat Bravo on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: 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 referred to as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Fiat Bravo. 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 gently with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is from behind your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your Fiat Bravo 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 Fiat Bravo 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 unplug 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 quite likely forgot a screw or a clip. Think of employing 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 Fiat Bravo, to reassemble it follow the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Fiat Bravo
And now, regardless if the procedure is quite similar, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Fiat Bravo. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more details.
- Start by undertaking the same first stage, that is, lift your Fiat Bravo and take off your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Fiat Bravo without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Fiat Bravo to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it much easier to remove the bumper from your Fiat Bravo.
- Take out the lower bindings below your Fiat Bravo.
- While doing so, be sure you 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 Fiat Bravo, follow the same technique as for the front bumper
Here, you have discoverd through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Fiat Bravo whether it is the front one or the rear one the ways are essentially the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
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