If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re most certainly eager to take care of the vast majority of the work to be carried out on your Renault Koleos, but some are more complex than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or components 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 see how to remove the bumper from a Renault Koleos. This task is not very complex and you should be able to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will see how to remove the front bumper of your Renault Koleos, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Renault Koleos
So let’s begin our article with the front bumper of your Renault Koleos. To take it off, you will just require a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the simple steps you will have to follow in order to disassemble the bumper of your Renault Koleos in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfy, we advise you to lift your Renault Koleos and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your automobile: Seems obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take out 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 Renault Koleos. Depending on your 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 gently 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 Renault Koleos 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 Renault Koleos to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the vehicle, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Be sure you disconnect 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 most likely forgot a screw or a clip. Think of employing 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 Koleos, to put it back in place follow the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Renault Koleos
And to finish, regardless if the procedure is quite identical, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Renault Koleos. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad outlines, refer to part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more information.
- Start with carrying out the same first step, that is, lift your Renault Koleos and take off your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Renault Koleos without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Renault Koleos 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 Renault Koleos.
- Remove the lower bindings below your Renault Koleos.
- While doing so, make sure 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 Renault Koleos, follow the same process as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Renault Koleos whether it is the front one or the rear one the ways are essentially the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you want more tutorials on the Renault Koleos, go to our Renault Koleos category.
