If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re probably wanting to take care of most of the maintenance to be achieved on your Kia Sorento, but some are more complicated than others and require the removal of body parts or components to access the part you want to focus on. We would really like to help you in this process. That’s why today we are going to see how to remove the bumper from a Kia Sorento. This task is not very complicated and you should have the ability to do it with few equipment. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Kia Sorento, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.

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How to remove the front bumper from a Kia Sorento

So let’s start our document with the front bumper of your Kia Sorento. 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 follow in order to disassemble the bumper of your Kia Sorento in good conditions:

  • If you want to be more relaxed, we advise you to put your Kia Sorento on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a best access to the whole front bumper.
  • Open the bonnet of your car: Seems evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
  • Take away the wheel arches: They’re also identified as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Kia Sorento. Dependant on 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 delicately 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 locks the front bumper of your Kia Sorento 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 Kia Sorento 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.
  • Make sure 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 probably forgot a screw or a clip. Think of employing 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 Sorento, to reassemble it follow the steps in the opposite way.

How to remove the rear bumper from a Kia Sorento

And now, even if the operation is quite identical, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Kia Sorento. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will simply give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more details.

  • Start by undertaking the same first step, that is, lift your Kia Sorento and remove your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Kia Sorento without trouble
  • Remove the rear wheel arches of your Kia Sorento to access the side bumper side brackets
  • Open your trunk
  • Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less difficult to remove the bumper from your Kia Sorento.
  • Take off the lower bindings below your Kia Sorento.
  • 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 Kia Sorento, follow the same procedure as for the front bumper

Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Kia Sorento whether it is the front one or the rear one the methods are pretty much the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.

If you need more tutorials on the Kia Sorento, go to our Kia Sorento category.