If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re most certainly willing to manage the majority of the maintenance to be completed on your Porsche 911, but some are more complicated than others and need the removal of body parts or elements to access the part you want to work on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why today we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Porsche 911. This process is not very complicated and you should be able to do it with few tools. To do so , first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Porsche 911, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Porsche 911
So let’s begin our article with the front bumper of your Porsche 911. To take it off, you will just require a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Porsche 911 in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we recommend you to put your Porsche 911 on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your 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 named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Porsche 911. Depending on your automobile features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to get this done, 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 in back of your mudguard and that seals the front bumper of your Porsche 911 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 Porsche 911 to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the automobile, 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 perhaps forgot a screw or a clip. Think of using 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 Porsche 911, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Porsche 911
And to finish, even if the operation is quite identical, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Porsche 911. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, refer to part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more details.
- Start by undertaking the same first step, that is, lift your Porsche 911 and take out your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working space to remove the bumper of your Porsche 911 without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Porsche 911 to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it much easier to remove the bumper from your Porsche 911.
- Take away the lower bindings below your Porsche 911.
- Simultaneously, be sure you un plug 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 Porsche 911, stick to the same procedure as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Porsche 911 whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are essentially the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
To find more tips on the Porsche 911, take a look at the Porsche 911 category.
