If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re almost certainly willing to take care of almost all of the work to be done on your Mercedes Benz Sprinter, but some are more complicated than others and need the removal of body parts or parts to access the component you want to operate on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why today we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Mercedes Benz Sprinter. This process is not very complicated and you should have the ability to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Mercedes Benz Sprinter
So let’s commence our article with the front bumper of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to adhere to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we encourage you to put your Mercedes Benz Sprinter on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: Seems obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take off the wheel arches: They’re also known as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter. According to your vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also be able to find staples, to get this done, 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 fastens the front bumper of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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 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 almost certainly 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter, to reassemble it adhere to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Mercedes Benz Sprinter
And to finish, regardless if the process is quite identical, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Mercedes Benz Sprinter. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, refer to part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more information.
- Start with undertaking the same first stage, that is, lift your Mercedes Benz Sprinter and take off your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Mercedes Benz Sprinter to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it more convenient to remove the bumper from your Mercedes Benz Sprinter.
- Take away the lower bindings underneath your Mercedes Benz Sprinter.
- While doing so, remember 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter, adhere to the same method as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Mercedes Benz Sprinter whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are pretty much the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you want more tutorials on the Mercedes Benz Sprinter, go to our Mercedes Benz Sprinter category.
