If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re almost certainly willing to take care of the vast majority of the service to be completed on your Renault Latitude, but some are more challenging than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or components to access the component you want to operate on. We would like to help you in this operation. That’s why on this web page we are going to discover how to remove the bumper from a Renault Latitude. This action 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 Renault Latitude, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Renault Latitude
So let’s start our content page with the front bumper of your Renault Latitude. 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 stick to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Renault Latitude in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we advise you to put your Renault Latitude on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a best access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: 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 called fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Renault Latitude. Depending on your car 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 behind your mudguard and that seals the front bumper of your Renault Latitude 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 Renault Latitude 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 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 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 Renault Latitude, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Renault Latitude
And to conclude, even if the procedure is quite similar, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Renault Latitude. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will just give you the broad highlights, refer to part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more information.
- Start with carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Renault Latitude and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Renault Latitude serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Renault Latitude to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take out the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less complicated to remove the bumper from your Renault Latitude.
- Take off the lower bindings underneath your Renault Latitude.
- While doing so, 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 Latitude, stick to the same procedure as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Renault Latitude whether it is the front one or the rear one the methods are practically the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you want more guides on the Renault Latitude, go to our Renault Latitude category.
