If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re most certainly keen to look after the majority of the maintenance to be completed on your Hyundai Santa Fe, but some are more challenging than others and require the removal of body parts or elements to access the component you want to operate on. We really want to help you in this task. That’s why today we are going to see how to remove the bumper from a Hyundai Santa Fe. This process is not very challenging and you should be able to do it with few tools. For that, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Hyundai Santa Fe, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Hyundai Santa Fe
So let’s begin our article content with the front bumper of your Hyundai Santa Fe. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to follow to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Hyundai Santa Fe in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we suggest you to put your Hyundai Santa Fe on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your vehicle: Seems evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Remove the wheel arches: They’re also described as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Hyundai Santa Fe. According to your motor 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 in back of your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your Hyundai Santa Fe 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 beneath your Hyundai Santa Fe to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the motor vehicle, 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 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 Hyundai Santa Fe, to reassemble it follow the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Hyundai Santa Fe
And now, even if the process is quite equivalent, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Hyundai Santa Fe. 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 with carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Hyundai Santa Fe and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an optimal working space to remove the bumper of your Hyundai Santa Fe without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Hyundai Santa Fe to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Remove the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less difficult to remove the bumper from your Hyundai Santa Fe.
- Take off the lower bindings underneath your Hyundai Santa Fe.
- At the same time, make sure 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 Hyundai Santa Fe, follow the same method as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Hyundai Santa Fe whether it is the front one or the rear one the solutions are more or less the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
Whenever you have any additional questions about the Hyundai Santa Fe, do not hesitate to consult our Hyundai Santa Fe category.
