If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re most likely eager to handle most of the service to be carried out on your Jeep Cherokee, but some are more complex than others and need the removal of body parts or elements to access the component you want to work on. We would like to help you in this task. That’s why on this web page we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Jeep Cherokee. This operation is not very complex 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 Jeep Cherokee, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Jeep Cherokee
So let’s begin our content page with the front bumper of your Jeep Cherokee. 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 stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Jeep Cherokee in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we encourage you to put your Jeep Cherokee 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.
- Take out the wheel arches: They’re also called fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Jeep Cherokee. Depending on your car features and the year of your model, you will also be able to find staples, to do this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it delicately 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 locks the front bumper of your Jeep Cherokee 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 underneath your Jeep Cherokee to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the car, 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 working with 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 Jeep Cherokee, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Jeep Cherokee
And to finish, regardless if the operation is quite similar, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Jeep Cherokee. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more info.
- Start with executing the same first step, that is, lift your Jeep Cherokee and take out your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Jeep Cherokee serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Jeep Cherokee to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take out the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your Jeep Cherokee.
- Take away the lower bindings underneath your Jeep Cherokee.
- 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 Jeep Cherokee, stick to the same process as for the front bumper
Here, you have discoverd through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Jeep Cherokee whether it is the front one or the rear one the ways are just about the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you need more tutorials on the Jeep Cherokee, go to our Jeep Cherokee category.
