If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re most certainly willing to look after almost all of the service to be completed on your Honda Fit, but some are more difficult than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or components to access the component you want to work on. We would really like to help you in this task. That’s why today we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Honda Fit. This process is not very difficult and you should be able to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Honda Fit, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Honda Fit
So let’s begin our article with the front bumper of your Honda Fit. 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 Honda Fit in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfy, we recommend you to put your Honda Fit 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 named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Honda Fit. Dependant on your automobile features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to do this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it carefully 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 locks the front bumper of your Honda Fit 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 below your Honda Fit 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.
- Remember to 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 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 Honda Fit, to put it back in place follow the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Honda Fit
And to conclude, regardless if the process is quite identical, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Honda Fit. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will simply give you the broad outlines, refer to part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more information.
- Start with carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Honda Fit and remove your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Honda Fit without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Honda Fit to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your Honda Fit.
- Take out the lower bindings below your Honda Fit.
- Simultaneously, 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 Honda Fit, follow the same procedure as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Honda Fit 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 need more tutorials on the Honda Fit, go to our Honda Fit category.
