Watch your plate light assembly when maneuvering this out. Once you get all 14 undone and the plastic end corners off, time to pop the plastic peice off. Picture of the clips that hold the plastic down to the bumper Be gentle and it will come.įor visibility, a good trusty flashlight that won't fall on your face is really helpful in seeing the clips that are out and the ones that are still in Take these off first, you can see the clip setup on this peice. By the time you figure out how to finangle your hand and a screwdriver behind one side, the other side goes super quick. You have to reach around (lol) the inner cap brace to get a few of them. It's kinda hard to see, but there are roughly 7 clip points on each side. Pair of pliers I had lying around to create the upward force on the plastic This prevents the clips from going right back in when you get one out. This part is a PTIB, but just be patient and place something in between the black part and chrome end to keep pressure on the black part. In order to remove this you have to squeeze each clip with your fingers or pry it with a screwdriver. The plastic black peice just clips into parts of the bumper. If you don't, you just have leave the plastic part hanging during your unbolting process.ĥ. It didn't need to come apart, but if you want to remove the whole plastic peice then it will be necessary. I honestly couldn't get the black harness apart so I just left it. Unclip white backup camera harness and the black harness next to it. No picture but they just slide out after you press down on the clippy part.ĥ. Remove wiring harnesses from liscense plate lights and trailer plug. Remove push clips at bottom of the black plastic peice of the bumper.ģ. There is a push clip underneath you need to removeĢ. Sorry for my terminology, I suck with words. I also have a second vehicle to drive around during this process, which makes things easier. The end result will be painted metal bumper ends. Then I will be taking to a local auto painting shop where I will have them color matched roughly 200-300 I'm guessing. My plan is to take the ends to a chrome plating shop where I was quoted 35$ a peice to remove the chrome. but I didn't have any clue as to how this worked, so It was a learning process. Time- took me 1.5 hours for th rear and the runtime of raiders of the lost arc for the front. Tools required - long and short flathead screwdriver, 10mm, 12mm socket and preferably one of those ratcheting wrenchs, flexible hands (small to medium) I'm a picky person with my truck, so I wanted to do this as best I could. And I didn't want a mis matched powder coating I would notice every day. I didn't want to spend 600$ on new ends or have a vinyl that would get jacked up at the first rock or fat ass bug.
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