If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re most certainly wanting to manage the vast majority of the maintenance to be carried out on your Nissan Navara, but some are more difficult than others and require the removal of body parts or parts to access the component you want to focus on. We really want to help you in this operation. That’s why in this article we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Nissan Navara. This operation is not very difficult and you should be able to do it with few tools. To do so , first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Nissan Navara, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Nissan Navara
So let’s commence our content with the front bumper of your Nissan Navara. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the guidelines you will have to stick to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Nissan Navara in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we suggest you to put your Nissan Navara on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a best access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: Would seem evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take out the wheel arches: They’re also named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Nissan Navara. According to 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 delicately with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is in back of your mudguard and that locks the front bumper of your Nissan Navara on the sides.
- Unscrew the screws or remove the clips on the upper part of the bumper in the engine compartment.
- Now it’s time to go under your Nissan Navara 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.
- 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 almost certainly forgot a screw or a clip. Think of working with 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 Navara, to put it back in place stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Nissan Navara
And now, even if the procedure is quite identical, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Nissan Navara. 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 info.
- Start with carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Nissan Navara and remove your rear wheels to be able to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Nissan Navara serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Nissan Navara to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take out the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it much easier to remove the bumper from your Nissan Navara.
- Take away the lower bindings underneath your Nissan Navara.
- At the same time, 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 Navara, stick to the same process as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Nissan Navara whether it is the front one or the rear one the approaches are almost the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
If you wish more tutorials on the Nissan Navara, go to our Nissan Navara category.
