Ok so as I was taking the front bumper off today to remove a headlight and fix a broken bracket, I got a few shots and have compiled a "how to" guide.

1. I found a thread with the following instructions so I referred to this as I went along. Ok, so bonnet up and undo the 2 x torx screws on the top of the grille just either side of the bonnet catch also there is some small split pins, below is a picture showing the aprox locations of the pins and the screws. The pins are easy to remove just pull the centre pin out and pop the clip out of the trim.

(Picture is just for location reference, the bumper does not just come off with those pins and screws.)



2 . Whilst you are there there is 2 x torx screws in the gap either side of the first two holding in place a corner of each headlight (I used a extendable magnet to carefully raise these up and out.)

3. I jacked up the side of the car I was working on and undid all the torx screws holding on the wheel arch inner plastic. See below



I referred to the diagram below for the locations of all these torx but they are mainly found around the inner edge. See picture for reference



There are some at the back by the suspension that are quite awkward to reach but if you jacked up it shouldn't be a problem.

4. I got under the car and undid all the torx screws that connect the wheel arch lining to the front bumper, also the engine plastic skid tray.







As you can see the plastic from your wheel arch lining just slides onto your front bumper and is secured in place with a torx screw. There are some pins that look like they should be removed but I didn't bother with them, I only undid all the torx. Shown below are the pins and some of the torx required to be removed ( as I said I just undid all the torx, left the pins and removed the skid tray)



Showing how arch lining attached to bumper



Can be quite awkward but just slides on



5. I then removed the drls, these are held in with 3 x torx screws for each light.



They disconnect easily once they are removed from the bumper fixings with a clip connection for the power supply.

6. There are two sections in your honeycomb plastic lower grill that pop out to reveal two more torx screws.



7. I went back under the car to remove all the torx screws from the front edge of the bumper using the picture below as a guide.



Here are the front torx



8. Referring to the picture I made sure I had removed all the screws needed but left four till last. These four are the ones that hold the bumper to your front quarter panels. This is why the car was jacked up high and had the wheel arch lining dropped down on to the trye. This gives you enough room to get a ratchet spanner in with a torx head adapter in to undo these four screws (2 x either side).

Here's a shot showing the lining dropped out and the bumper removed, showing the gap I put my hand in to get to the two troublesome bolts



Annotated to show appeox position of screws and where I found access to them.


Bumper attachment shot.



This all mates up when attached and screwed together.

9. Carefully then with the help from my friend we got hold of the bumper in the honeycomb grille and gently slid and pulled the bumper off it's holding brackets. Then lowered it down onto a soft surface to prevent any scratching to paintwork.



When I got stuck I just referred to picture guide that I included above, and when pricing it back to get her I just did all the above in a reverse manner.

Hope this helps Anyone looking to do this.

**This is purely for guidance only, attempt it at your own risk**

Mike