If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re most certainly willing to manage the majority of the maintenance to be achieved on your Kia Carens, but some are more difficult than others and necessitate 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 in this article we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Kia Carens. This action is not very difficult and you should be able to do it with few tools. To accomplish this, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Kia Carens, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Kia Carens
So let’s begin our article with the front bumper of your Kia Carens. To remove it, you will just require 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 Kia Carens in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfy, we recommend you to put your Kia Carens on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your motor 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 named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Kia Carens. Dependant on your motor vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to get this done, 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 behind your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your Kia Carens 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 Kia Carens 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 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 Kia Carens, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Kia Carens
And to conclude, whether or not the process is quite similar, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Kia Carens. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will just give you the broad outlines, refer to part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more details.
- Start with carrying out the same first step, that is, lift your Kia Carens and take out your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Kia Carens serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Kia Carens to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Remove the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your Kia Carens.
- Take off the lower bindings below your Kia Carens.
- While doing so, 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 Kia Carens, stick to the same process as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Kia Carens whether it is the front one or the rear one the methods are just about the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
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