If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re most certainly eager to handle most of the service to be achieved on your Toyota Prius, but some are more difficult than others and necessitate 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 on this web page we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a Toyota Prius. This action 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 Toyota Prius, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Toyota Prius
So let’s commence our content with the front bumper of your Toyota Prius. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to follow in order to disassemble the bumper of your Toyota Prius in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we suggest you to put your Toyota Prius on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your automobile: Seems evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take off the wheel arches: They’re also described as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Toyota Prius. According to 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 Toyota Prius 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 Toyota Prius 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 to 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 probably forgot a screw or a clip. Think of using a carpet or other to avoid 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 Toyota Prius, to put it back in place follow the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Toyota Prius
And to finish, even if the process is quite similar, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Toyota Prius. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will exclusively give you the broad highlights, refer to part 1 if you have any concerns or questions for more info.
- Start with undertaking the same first step, that is, lift your Toyota Prius and remove your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working space to remove the bumper of your Toyota Prius without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Toyota Prius to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it more convenient to remove the bumper from your Toyota Prius.
- Take off the lower bindings below your Toyota Prius.
- Simultaneously, be sure you 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 Toyota Prius, follow the same method as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Toyota Prius whether it is the front one or the rear one the approaches are just about the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you want more tutorials on the Toyota Prius, go to our Toyota Prius category.
