A2 Front Bumper Cover

The bumpers snap onto the front rebar and slide over two supports near the side markers.

I know of a place that sells relatively inexpensive big bumpers in Toronto. Lemme know if you're interested, I'll dig out the number. They're at the 400 and Finch.

Darryl.

And the bumper is bolted to the car with six bolts. Two each side underneath (easily confused with subframe bolts so be careful when undoing things...(guess how I know!)...watch what's "moving") and one each side just inboard of the turn signals (remove lamp housing to access it).

The reason I ask is my front bumper cover was replaced at the body shop, but now it seems to be loose on the front of the car...if I pull on the cover, it will slide right off...

- Pete

Those Crosby bastards :)

The rebar has a bunch of square holes cut into it. On the cover itself, there are a series of tabs that push into these holes. Check to see that the tabs haven't been bent back or broken off completely. Did you snag the cover on something?

Darryl.

It's a brand new bumper cover, so it's just a matter of pressing it in, I would guess...

- Pete

The tabs then should have wedges that snap in, spreading the tabs apart so the cover doesn't unsnap.

So do I just press on the cover to install it, or is there something more to it?

- Pete

Nope, just slide over the bumper supports and press into place. Now that I think of it, I may have pressed mine on with the rebar off the car but it shouldn't matter either way.

Darryl.

It's best if you have the bumper off of the car so you can reach all along the back of the rebar.

1. Disconnect the wiring harnesses for the signal lamps and remove the lamps. Disconnect the foglamp harnesses if you have fogs. The fogs can stay on the bumper though.
2. Remove bumper by undoing the six bolts described earlier (3 each side) and pull the bumper assembly off of the car.
3. Press the cover onto the bumper making sure the tabs go through the holes in the bumper.
4. Press the wedges between the tabs of the bumper cover, expanding the tabs so they don't pop out of the holes. This is the part I'm wondering about...did the folks who messed with your bumper have the wedges?
5. Install bumper, making sure the clips in the sides of the cover slide onto the side guides properly.
6. Install the bolts, install the signal lamps, connect wiring harnesses, done.