You have to remove the bumper but you can put it back on without the insert and just clip it in once it's painted.
You have to remove the bumper but you can put it back on without the insert and just clip it in once it's painted.
I assume that you want to paint the center insert on the lower bumper.
That piece is separate with the lower grille and the foglight bezels snapped into it.
If you get a fresh center piece and have it painted, you can swap it out at your leisure.
his point was that if you buy a new center piece and have it painted beforehand you can just swap it out... therefore only needing to remove the bumper once.
I took my car to the bodyshop last night to get the bumper removed and the Valence painted. You would actually need to remove the bumper only once either way as the Valence clips in from the front, but has to be removed from the back.
Also, from the pictures, it looks like the person removed the lower grille as well, which was not neccessary. Once the bumper is off, the Valence can be removed without touching the lower grill. I am driving my car right now with the lower grille and no Valence while it's getting painted. Once I get the Valence back, it should be able to just clip back into the bumper from the front.
The way it was deisnged is, you have to unclip from the back, but you should be able to push it into place from the front, assuming you didn't break any of the clips. That should require you to take the bumper off only once (to unclip from the back)
Only once gee I wish I said that three posts ago.
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