If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re almost certainly willing to take care of the vast majority of the maintenance to be completed on your Opel Meriva, but some are more challenging than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or elements to access the component you want to focus on. We would really like to help you in this operation. That’s why today we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Opel Meriva. This operation is not very challenging and you should be able to do it with few equipment. For that, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Opel Meriva, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Opel Meriva
So let’s begin our content with the front bumper of your Opel Meriva. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the simple steps you will have to adhere to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Opel Meriva in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we advise you to put your Opel Meriva on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your automobile: Seems evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take off the wheel arches: They’re also identified as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Opel Meriva. Depending on your motor vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to accomplish this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it gently 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 fastens the front bumper of your Opel Meriva 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 beneath your Opel Meriva 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 to 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 working with 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 Opel Meriva, to reassemble it adhere to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Opel Meriva
And to conclude, whether or not the procedure is quite similar, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Opel Meriva. 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 details.
- Start with undertaking the same first stage, that is, lift your Opel Meriva and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Opel Meriva without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Opel Meriva to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less difficult to remove the bumper from your Opel Meriva.
- Take out the lower bindings below your Opel Meriva.
- At the same time, 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 Opel Meriva, adhere to the same technique as for the front bumper
Here, you have discoverd through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Opel Meriva whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are practically the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you need more tutorials on the Opel Meriva, go to our Opel Meriva category.
