If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re quite likely wanting to manage most of the maintenance to be completed on your Seat Arona, but some are more difficult than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or components to access the component you want to work on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why in this article we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Seat Arona. This task is not very difficult and you should be able to do it with few tools. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Seat Arona, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Seat Arona
So let’s begin our content with the front bumper of your Seat Arona. 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 follow to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Seat Arona in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfy, we encourage you to lift your Seat Arona and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: Would seem evident, 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 Seat Arona. Dependant 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 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 fastens the front bumper of your Seat Arona 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 beneath your Seat Arona 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.
- 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 almost certainly 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 Seat Arona, to reassemble it follow the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Seat Arona
And to finish, regardless if the process is quite identical, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Seat Arona. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will simply give you the broad outlines, refer to part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more details.
- Start with performing the same first stage, that is, lift your Seat Arona and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working space to remove the bumper of your Seat Arona serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Seat Arona to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take out the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your Seat Arona.
- Take off the lower bindings below your Seat Arona.
- At the same time, remember to 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 Seat Arona, follow the same procedure as for the front bumper
Here, you have discoverd through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Seat Arona whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are essentially the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
If you need more guides on the Seat Arona, go to our Seat Arona category.
