If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re most certainly wanting to take care of almost all of the work to be carried out on your Nissan Altima, but some are more complex than others and require the removal of body parts or parts to access the component you want to operate on. We would like to help you in this operation. That’s why in this article we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Nissan Altima. This task is not very complex and you should have the ability to do it with few tools. To accomplish this, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Nissan Altima, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.

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How to remove the front bumper from a Nissan Altima

So let’s begin our content page with the front bumper of your Nissan Altima. To take it off, 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 Nissan Altima in good conditions:

  • If you want to be more comfortable, we advise you to put your Nissan Altima 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 Nissan Altima. Depending on your car 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 carefully with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
  • Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is from behind your mudguard and that locks the front bumper of your Nissan Altima 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 Nissan Altima to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the car, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
  • Be sure you 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 Nissan Altima, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite way.

How to remove the rear bumper from a Nissan Altima

And to finish, even if the process is quite identical, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Nissan Altima. For each stage 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 information.

  • Start by carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Nissan Altima and take out your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Nissan Altima serenely
  • Remove the rear wheel arches of your Nissan Altima to access the side bumper side brackets
  • Open your trunk
  • Remove the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it much easier to remove the bumper from your Nissan Altima.
  • Take off the lower bindings underneath your Nissan Altima.
  • While doing so, be sure you 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 Nissan Altima, stick to the same operation as for the front bumper

Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Nissan Altima whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are practically the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.

If you need more tutorials on the Nissan Altima, go to our Nissan Altima category.