If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re likely wanting to handle most of the work to be completed on your Jaguar F-Pace, but some are more challenging than others and require the removal of body parts or elements to access the part you want to operate on. We would like to help you in this process. That’s why today we are going to see how to remove the bumper from a Jaguar F-Pace. This task is not very challenging and you should be able to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Jaguar F-Pace, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.

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How to remove the front bumper from a Jaguar F-Pace

So let’s start our content page with the front bumper of your Jaguar F-Pace. 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 Jaguar F-Pace in good conditions:

  • If you want to be more relaxed, we advise you to put your Jaguar F-Pace on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
  • Open the bonnet of your car: Would seem obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
  • Take out 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 Jaguar F-Pace. Dependant on your vehicle 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 carefully with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
  • Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is at the rear of your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your Jaguar F-Pace 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 Jaguar F-Pace 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 almost certainly forgot a screw or a clip. Think of using 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 Jaguar F-Pace, to put it back in place follow the steps in the opposite way.

How to remove the rear bumper from a Jaguar F-Pace

And to finish, regardless if the process is quite equivalent, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Jaguar F-Pace. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will just give you the broad outlines, refer to part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more information.

  • Start with executing the same first step, that is, lift your Jaguar F-Pace and take out your rear wheels to be able to have an optimal working space to remove the bumper of your Jaguar F-Pace serenely
  • Remove the rear wheel arches of your Jaguar F-Pace to access the side bumper side brackets
  • Open your trunk
  • Take out the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it more convenient to remove the bumper from your Jaguar F-Pace.
  • Take away the lower bindings below your Jaguar F-Pace.
  • Simultaneously, make sure 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 Jaguar F-Pace, follow the same technique as for the front bumper

Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Jaguar F-Pace 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.

To discover more tips on the Jaguar F-Pace, take a look at the Jaguar F-Pace category.