If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re probably wanting to take care of the vast majority of the maintenance to be completed on your Nissan Frontier, but some are more difficult than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or components to access the component you want to work on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why on this web page we are going to discover how to remove the bumper from a Nissan Frontier. This process is not very difficult 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 Frontier, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.

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How to remove the front bumper from a Nissan Frontier

So let’s start our article content with the front bumper of your Nissan Frontier. 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 stick to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Nissan Frontier in good conditions:

  • If you want to be more comfy, we suggest you to lift your Nissan Frontier 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.
  • Take away the wheel arches: They’re also referred to as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Nissan Frontier. Depending on your motor vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to do 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 behind your mudguard and that seals the front bumper of your Nissan Frontier 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 Nissan Frontier 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 quite likely forgot a screw or a clip. Think of using 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 Frontier, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite direction.

How to remove the rear bumper from a Nissan Frontier

And now, whether or not the procedure is quite similar, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Nissan Frontier. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will just give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more info.

  • Start by carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Nissan Frontier and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working space to remove the bumper of your Nissan Frontier serenely
  • Remove the rear wheel arches of your Nissan Frontier to access the side bumper side brackets
  • Open your trunk
  • Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your Nissan Frontier.
  • Remove the lower bindings below your Nissan Frontier.
  • Simultaneously, make sure 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 Nissan Frontier, 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 Frontier whether it is the front one or the rear one the solutions are more or less the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.

If you wish more tutorials on the Nissan Frontier, go to our Nissan Frontier category.