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twhincup

Member Since: 22 Feb 2012
Location: byfleet
Posts: 109

2004 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Zambezi Silver

Front bumper replacement

I had one of those god awful rubber bull bars on the front of my FF and have wanted rid since i bought the car. After recently parking the FF in the front wall of the in-laws, accidentally damaging the corner of the front bumper (you can just make out the black patch on the right in the picture), I ordered a 2nd hand bumper off flea bay. £110 in my colour with parking sensors and fog lights still attached.

I took some photos as I went and as it turned out to be a pretty straight forward job, i'll share with you and hope someone else can benefit from it.

As it looked:

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1. I put the bonnet in to service mode, not really needed but i like the feeling of extra space.

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2. Remove screws hold rubber

on:

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3. Undo 2 screws holding front grill in place and remove grill:

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4. Remove 4 screws behind grill:

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5. Remove 2 screws holding valance to wheel arch both sides:

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6. Remove 2 screws that are roughly either side of number plate:

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7. At the centre of the bumper are 2 struts, no need to undo the 2 red arrow screws but i did anyway, just the white ones:

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8. undo the 4 screws that hold the plastic to the car:

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9. There might be a towing bar clip cover, but mine didn't so didn't have to take it off, just undid the screws:

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10. Now with the help of a friend, or in my case a coffee making lovely wife, lift and pull off the bumper, taking extra care to undo all the fog light and parking sensor connectors as it could damage the looms:

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11. I just reversed the process and now have a lovely new bumper without the cr8p black bull plastic. As an added bonus, now the black things gone, the parking sensors are now working

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Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated

2007 3.0L Diesel VW Touareg SE
2003 4.4 LPG, Vogue, Silver

6th Jan 2013 1:17am

Joe90

Member Since: 29 Apr 2010
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 6419

Nice work twhincup, the photo story makes all the difference to a howto

Now are your spare fog lights in any sort of reasonable nick (the reflectors) .
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6th Jan 2013 1:58am

JohnnyDangerous

Member Since: 16 Dec 2012
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 833

2002 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Java Black

Looks to me to be a pretty quick and easy job, how long did it take? One day your life will flash before your eyes......................................make sure yours is worth watching!

6th Jan 2013 1:59am

twhincup

Member Since: 22 Feb 2012
Location: byfleet
Posts: 109

I took out the slightly rusted fogs and kept the clean ones and all in all took about 45 mins with a coffee break 2007 3.0L Diesel VW Touareg SE
2003 4.4 LPG, Vogue, Silver

6th Jan 2013 11:30am

Tuts

Member Since: 24 May 2012
Location: Bishopâ€™s Stortford, Herts
Posts: 201

2003 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Java Black

Good write up mate, looks soooooo much better ! 2003 Vogue 4.4 V8 Java Black

6th Jan 2013 11:35am

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars

Member Since: 22 Jan 2010
Location: Chilterns, UK
Posts: 11309

Fleabay the A-Bar as some mug will have it...

6th Jan 2013 12:44pm

stan
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those 'bull' bars are so ugly ...bet it looks better now.. ... - .- -.

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7th Jan 2013 10:07am

ebajema

Member Since: 24 Mar 2011
Location: New Plymouth
Posts: 4782

2010 Range Rover Autobiography 5.0 SC V8 Galway Green

Had my bull bar removed as well and am currently chasing a new front bumper (with a little help ) I hated it from the moment I got the car. On mine the ugly holes in the front fenders aren't helping either but it is still better than the ugly black eyebrows/beard/moustache

Just looking for some kit to fill the holes and planning to stick silver reflective tape over it (planning to add some more reflective tape, black and silver anyway as it is quite useful here). MY 2010 5.0 SC Galway green and sand interior!!
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7th Jan 2013 11:19am

Johnte

Member Since: 23 Aug 2010
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 743

Thanks for that

I've been putting off changing a parking sensor - Think I'll have a go now

7th Jan 2013 11:21am

TheAllSeeingPie

Member Since: 18 Apr 2012
Location: Leeds
Posts: 848

2007 Range Rover Supercharged Supercharged Java Black

Johnte wrote:
I've been putting off changing a parking sensor - Think I'll have a go now

The parking sensors on the outside can be prized out without removing the bumper if you have small hands, same for the rear too. This process does look less scary than removing the rear one, as you don't have to prise anything off!

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7th Jan 2013 12:27pm

Johnte

Member Since: 23 Aug 2010
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 743

^ Unfortunately it's an inner sensor (I think as that's the only one that isn't making a noise)

7th Jan 2013 1:54pm

Durham4416

Member Since: 10 Dec 2012
Location: Middlesbrough
Posts: 248

My bumper has dropped about 1 cm on the drivers side so thanks very much for taking the time to do the write up, I'll sort it at the weekend

7th Jan 2013 2:55pm

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