If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re quite likely eager to look after the majority of the service to be achieved on your Volkswagen Amarok, but some are more difficult than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or components to access the part you want to operate on. We want to help you in this process. That’s why today we are going to see how to remove the bumper from a Volkswagen Amarok. This operation is not very difficult and you should be able to do it with few equipment. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Volkswagen Amarok, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Volkswagen Amarok
So let’s commence our content with the front bumper of your Volkswagen Amarok. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the guidelines you will have to stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Volkswagen Amarok in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfy, we suggest you to lift your Volkswagen Amarok 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 out the wheel arches: They’re also named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Volkswagen Amarok. According to 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 seals the front bumper of your Volkswagen Amarok 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 underneath your Volkswagen Amarok 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.
- Remember to unplug 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 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 Volkswagen Amarok, to reassemble it stick to the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Volkswagen Amarok
And now, whether or not the procedure is quite equivalent, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Volkswagen Amarok. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will exclusively give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more info.
- Start with performing the same first stage, that is, lift your Volkswagen Amarok and remove your rear wheels in order to have an optimal working area to remove the bumper of your Volkswagen Amarok serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Volkswagen Amarok 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 Volkswagen Amarok.
- Take off the lower bindings underneath your Volkswagen Amarok.
- While doing so, make sure 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 Volkswagen Amarok, stick to the same operation as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Volkswagen Amarok whether it is the front one or the rear one the approaches are pretty much the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you want more guides on the Volkswagen Amarok, go to our Volkswagen Amarok category.
