How to remove rear bumper ?

[gjp33]

Is there (or can anyone post) a crash course in removing the rear A2 bumper (with parking sensors) ?

the other half has managed to pop in the corner in a reversing accident, and apart from some minor paint scuffs, it looks like it might spring back out again with the appropriate persuasion from behind :)

cheers for any help!

[Skipton01]

You need to remove both wheels and arch liners, take out screws underneath and take out screws below the chrome trim strip then the bumper can be persuaded out from the main body of the car.

It's not a quick job and you will need to do one wheel at a time, unless you have a professional ramp.

Cheers,

Mike

[gjp33]

many thanks.

I have stands, t.jacks, and all sorts from when I used to tinker, so no problem there.

knowing where the fixings are on a car you're not familiar with, however, is 90% of the battle!

when you say 'below' the trim strip - is that literally - does the strip actually cover them ?

[spike]

Hi gjp33
Skyman, one of our club members fitted a towbar sometime ago. His pictures on the attached link show several shots of the bumper being removed.
http://photos.blueyonder.co.uk/album/1184123

Cheers Spike

[Skipton01]

The screws you need to remove below the aluminium trim strip are ufortunately not seen in those photos, although the ones in the wheel arches are.

If you remove the trim strip, you'll see the screws I mean, nestling about 3 inches down (they're in the part that looks like the top of a castle wall in the photos).

The ones which caused me much grief were really high up under the arches. Once you have all the screws removed, the bumper will come out quite easily - lining it up again is a different matter!

Cheers,

Mike

[gjp33]

that's a great help - thanks fellas.

weather permitting, I am going to tackle it tomorrow.

[vkx245l]

Hi

We had the same problem on ours but I was able to massage it with out taking it off. Its not perfect and I need to remove it to realign it at some point. To assist with this I purchased a pair of rear bumper sliders. Apparently these are used in assembly to slide the bumper into correct alignment and although they "don't" contribute to holding the bumper on, when you give the bumper a wack the snap at it makes the bumper look like its about to fall off. Any how they were only a few quid. I'll know when I take the bumper off whether I've been sold two useless triangular bits of plastic or not!

- just had a look at the photos in the above link and can spot the plastice sliders at point where the bumper meets the rear wheel arch

Regards

Jonathan

[gjp33]

All done :)

what a lot of screws!

to remove bumper:

The plastic 'chrome' trim strip doesn't actually have to come off per se - the black plastic trim with the drain holes does - this can be carefully popped off by slotting a scredriver down each of the tabs which locate with the chrome strip - then the screws underneath can be removed (5 or 6 of them iirc)

wheel arch liners and mudguards off - and removing the screws from the arch trims is a good idea too - this allows them to be moved aside - there are also two screws on the underside of the bumper which need to come out.

then it can be popped off the two tabs on each side where it locates near the light clusters.

- the rather nasty dent I got out (carefully) by levering with a rag over the end of a wooden stick, then stress relieving the whole area with a heat gun, and massaging the creased areas manually. Apart from a little crazed paint and one small area where the paint came away on the worst crease - you'd never know it had been bumped :) - it did help that I've a lot of experience with mucking around with cars before though.

[gjp33]

oh - and I noticed Audi even uses aluminium for the jack! (though I didn't use it)