Taking off the grill and bumper?
- Thread starter paulfr
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If I can do it, so can you.
I do like it when people use this term. It is often very honest - and i take confidence in that. I genuinely believe if i can do it, my 8yr old daughter can do it....
I'll let you know on Monday!
At the outside edge or the ones in the centre of the arch?
Did you put the wheels on full lock? Gives you enough room.
The torx screws are easy enough but the outside and centre clips are a complete b*****d to get out, you'll probably break the centre ones. They are clear in the THQ video, have another look?
Edit: just to be clear, by centre I mean halfway across the width of the arch, towards the inside, and on the front face. They are easy to find as they dip inwards towards the front of the van.
I was starting to do the drivers side and put the wheel's on full lock towards me (if that makes sence!).Got all of the Torx screws out no problem,peeled the wheel arch cover off as shown in the THQ video but can't find the thing's that attach the plastic to the metal!May have to go in with a torch tommorow afternoon.
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If it's the Trim clip they show at 0:50 it is a bugger to get off - they use a metal trim tool, and I ended up using a flat-blade screwdriver, then tearing it out with a pair of long handled plier things (can you tell I have a desk job
). It was totally destroyed but it didn't seem to cause any issues not having it in.If you mean the torx screws along the edge, I seem to recall the middle one being a bit obstinate to put back in, and the top one needs to be in the correct place when you refit, I think I have bent mine somehow so when I bought some more trim clips the one in the Arch wouldn't line up!
Swearing and threatening it with a lump hammer also helps
At least it did for me
ALL my DIY ends this way...
[GUIDE] How to remove the front bumper on a VW Transporter T6
The above video by THQ is great and I followed it when doing the same job, but it's quite hard to have the video to hand at each step and so I forgot a step, so this is just a picture guide that you can use as you go along. Also, in spite of having a young van, these trim clips were a PITA, so...
So after alot of swearing i managed to get one side of the bumper off and the other side took about 5 minutes(when i knew what i was doing!Got the new lights fitted and suprisingly working!Only thing is there is a bulb error coming up now.Not a biggie ,but annoying.Is it posible to clear this with carista?Thank's for all of your help!
I may be wrong but I think you will need Vcds to switch off the bulb warning utility. You might be able to reset it with Carista but it will just come back again....
....someone will be along shortly to correct me.
....someone will be along shortly to correct me.
If this is because of led bulbs, look here: https://www.t6forum.com/threads/bulb-warning-coding.26153/post-364322
Hi mate did you do this through carista,following roberts coding?If so i think that's sorted it.Yes,it'LED bulbs.I changed the back light's and the side indicators to LED with no problem....seems this was two lights too many!
