If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re most certainly wanting to manage the vast majority of the service to be done on your Kia Soul, but some are more complicated than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or elements to access the component you want to operate on. We would like to help you in this process. That’s why in this article we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Kia Soul. This operation is not very complicated and you should be able to do it with few tools. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Kia Soul, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Kia Soul
So let’s start our article with the front bumper of your Kia Soul. To take it off, you will just require 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 Kia Soul in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we recommend you to put your Kia Soul on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your automobile: 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 called fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Kia Soul. Depending on your motor 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 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 seals the front bumper of your Kia Soul 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 under your Kia Soul 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 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 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 Kia Soul, to put it back in place follow the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Kia Soul
And now, regardless if the procedure is quite similar, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Kia Soul. 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 details.
- Start by carrying out the same first step, that is, lift your Kia Soul and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Kia Soul without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Kia Soul to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less complicated to remove the bumper from your Kia Soul.
- Take out the lower bindings below your Kia Soul.
- 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 Soul, follow the same method as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Kia Soul whether it is the front one or the rear one the methods are more or less the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
If perhaps you have any further questions about the Kia Soul, do not hesitate to consult our Kia Soul category.
