If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re probably eager to take care of most of the service to be achieved on your Ford Escape, but some are more complex than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or parts to access the part you want to operate on. We really want to help you in this operation. That’s why today we are going to discover how to remove the bumper from a Ford Escape. This action is not very complex and you should be able to do it with few tools. To do so , first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Ford Escape, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.

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How to remove the front bumper from a Ford Escape

So let’s commence our article content with the front bumper of your Ford Escape. 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 stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Ford Escape in good conditions:

  • If you want to be more relaxed, we recommend you to lift your Ford Escape and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect 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 off the wheel arches: They’re also identified as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Ford Escape. According to your automobile features and the year of your model, you will also be able to find staples, to achieve 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 Ford Escape on the sides.
  • Unscrew the screws or remove the clips on the upper part of the bumper in the engine bay.
  • Now it’s time to go under your Ford Escape to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the automobile, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
  • Make sure to 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 probably forgot a screw or a clip. Think of employing 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 Ford Escape, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite direction.

How to remove the rear bumper from a Ford Escape

And now, whether or not the operation is quite equivalent, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Ford Escape. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, refer to part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more info.

  • Start by undertaking the same first stage, that is, lift your Ford Escape and take off your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Ford Escape without trouble
  • Remove the rear wheel arches of your Ford Escape to access the side bumper side brackets
  • Open your trunk
  • Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less complicated to remove the bumper from your Ford Escape.
  • Take off the lower bindings underneath your Ford Escape.
  • At the same time, remember 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 Ford Escape, stick to the same operation as for the front bumper

Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Ford Escape whether it is the front one or the rear one the methods are more or less the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.

If you want more tutorials on the Ford Escape, go to our Ford Escape category.