If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re probably willing to manage the majority of the maintenance to be done on your Mitsubishi Eclipse, but some are more complicated than others and require the removal of body parts or elements to access the part you want to operate on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why in this article we are going to see how to remove the bumper from a Mitsubishi Eclipse. This procedure is not very complicated 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Mitsubishi Eclipse
So let’s begin our article content with the front bumper of your Mitsubishi Eclipse. 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we encourage you to put your Mitsubishi Eclipse on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your motor vehicle: Seems obvious, 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse. According to your motor vehicle 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 behind your mudguard and that locks the front bumper of your Mitsubishi Eclipse 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 beneath your Mitsubishi Eclipse 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.
- Be sure you 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 perhaps 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Mitsubishi Eclipse
And to finish, whether or not the procedure is quite equivalent, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Mitsubishi Eclipse. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more details.
- Start with performing the same first step, that is, lift your Mitsubishi Eclipse and take out your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Mitsubishi Eclipse serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Mitsubishi Eclipse 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse.
- Take off the lower bindings underneath your Mitsubishi Eclipse.
- While doing so, remember to disconnect 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 Mitsubishi Eclipse, stick to the same method as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Mitsubishi Eclipse whether it is the front one or the rear one the approaches are essentially the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
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