Posted: 01 Apr 2008 01:57 am
Good to see someone wanting to help others and is keen to see bits used than crushed.
The rear bumper bolts usually pick up the road salt and dirt from the road over the years, it gets in the threads and they're rusty! If you don't make them spin you can usually snap them easily enough, as Chris says, it's a FTW! There are basically two brackets on a hatchback that go through the rear valance from the bumper and onto the chassis rails. A saloon iirc has longer brackets, but it definitely has two extra little angle brackets to help secure it! Before you attempt to take the bumper off your own vehicle Tom, get some spare nuts and bolts sorted! Somewhere I have a pic I took with dimensions.
Pete
The rear bumper bolts usually pick up the road salt and dirt from the road over the years, it gets in the threads and they're rusty! If you don't make them spin you can usually snap them easily enough, as Chris says, it's a FTW! There are basically two brackets on a hatchback that go through the rear valance from the bumper and onto the chassis rails. A saloon iirc has longer brackets, but it definitely has two extra little angle brackets to help secure it! Before you attempt to take the bumper off your own vehicle Tom, get some spare nuts and bolts sorted! Somewhere I have a pic I took with dimensions.
Pete