If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re likely wanting to handle the majority of the service to be carried out on your Renault Espace, but some are more challenging than others and require the removal of body parts or elements to access the part you want to work on. We would like to help you in this task. That’s why today we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Renault Espace. This task is not very challenging 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 Renault Espace, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Renault Espace
So let’s start our article with the front bumper of your Renault Espace. To remove it, you will just require 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 Renault Espace in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we encourage you to put your Renault Espace on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your vehicle: Would seem 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 prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Renault Espace. 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 gently with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is at the rear of your mudguard and that seals the front bumper of your Renault Espace 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 below your Renault Espace 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 perhaps 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 Renault Espace, to put it back in place stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Renault Espace
And to conclude, even if the procedure is quite similar, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your Renault Espace. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will simply give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more details.
- Start by undertaking the same first step, that is, lift your Renault Espace and remove your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Renault Espace without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Renault Espace to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less complicated to remove the bumper from your Renault Espace.
- Take off the lower bindings underneath your Renault Espace.
- At the same time, 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 Renault Espace, stick to the same process as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Renault Espace 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 need more tutorials on the Renault Espace, go to our Renault Espace category.
