Mk2 Standerd Bumpers

[Adam Moran]

Mk2 Standerd Bumpers - How do ya get them off?? Haynes says it's got rivets and you drill them out - For refitting how do you reatach them? Re-Rivet?

Thanks for your advise guys!!

AJ

[ade]

rivets? Dunno about that.

To get the back bumpers off, theres 2 nuts in the boot - undo them. Then undo the 2 bolts either side of the rear arch where the bumper edge meets the wheel edge (10mm I think) - disconnect the number plate light (pops out on a clip)then pull!

As for the front, you need to 1st remove the grill from the bumper (4 pegs at the top on the slam panel (bit that bonnet clips into), unclip, unclip under head lights then remove. U then need to remove the screws/clips (if any) that hols the edges of the bumper to the wings, then u need to remove any screws/clips from under the front (where a splitter would go), then u need to remove the 2 10mm screws from inside the wheel well where the bumper is secured from ithe inside, then remove the 2 13mm (I think) bolts that hold the carriage bars to the chassis (they are also in the wheel arches at the front of the car). Then pull but make sure you prise the sides past the wing edges.


To remove the bumper from the carriage simply use a flat headed screw driver to prise the square clips gently past the metal hole. fitting is reversal of removal - to quote haynes

[mikeoxford]

what ade says 8)

the bumpers were supposed to have body bound rivets around the bottoms on the front into the valance, on the back supposed to be a fixing in the middle.

however i have NEVER seen either of these. perhaps vauxhall didnt bother?

ignore it m8

what ade sez

[Matt Finary]

My sr front bumper had five(i think) rivets they can out with a little force.

Matt :)