If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re almost certainly eager to handle the vast majority of the service to be completed on your Toyota Yaris 2, but some are more complicated than others and need the removal of body parts or components to access the part you want to operate on. We want to help you in this operation. That’s why in this article we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Toyota Yaris 2. This task is not very complicated and you should be able to do it with few equipment. To accomplish this, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Toyota Yaris 2, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Toyota Yaris 2
So let’s start our article with the front bumper of your Toyota Yaris 2. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the simple steps you will have to adhere to to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Toyota Yaris 2 in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we recommend you to put your Toyota Yaris 2 on stands 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 off the wheel arches: They’re also referred to as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Toyota Yaris 2. Dependant on your vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to accomplish 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 from behind your mudguard and that locks the front bumper of your Toyota Yaris 2 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 below your Toyota Yaris 2 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 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 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 Toyota Yaris 2, to put it back in place adhere to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Toyota Yaris 2
And now, whether or not the operation is quite equivalent, we will take a look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Toyota Yaris 2. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will just give you the broad outlines, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more info.
- Start by carrying out the same first stage, that is, lift your Toyota Yaris 2 and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an ideal working space to remove the bumper of your Toyota Yaris 2 without trouble
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Toyota Yaris 2 to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less complicated to remove the bumper from your Toyota Yaris 2.
- Remove the lower bindings underneath your Toyota Yaris 2.
- While doing so, make sure 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 Toyota Yaris 2, adhere to the same operation as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Toyota Yaris 2 whether it is the front one or the rear one the methods are more or less the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
To find more tips on the Toyota Yaris 2, take a look at the Toyota Yaris 2 category.
