964 front and rear bumper removal

[porsche gt3]

Hi,
I am looking for information on how to remove the front and rear bumpers on a 964. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Spenny_b]

Not being funny but there's a tonne of stuff out there with a search...here's the front bumper from Rennlist> https://rennlist.com/forums/964-forum/228007-front-and-rear-bumper-removal.html

The rear bumper is easy enough apart from access. Done it loads of times on my Turbo, not sure if its exactly the same but in summary:

Remove inner arches behind rear wheels (you'll need to remove the wheels to contort yourself to access fixings)

Remove fixing in lower corner of bumper, which also holds in the inner arch

Remove another fixing on the underside of the bumper about 30cm from the previous bottom corner

Remove the ally heat shields, 4 fixings per side

When you look back into the bumper through where you removed the inner arch and heat shields, you'll see 4x screws holding the top edge into the chassis. They secure a curved metal strip thats used to spread the load. Remove all 4 from each side. They're a pain in the arse to get to, and refit. Support brackets and ventilation hoses get in the way.

Between the top edge of bumper and the bodywork theres a rubber insulating strip the same shape as the metal strip above, sandwiched by those 4 screws; remove them

Remove the RH tail light (well, it is for the UK RHD models) and you'll see a 2-wired harness coming through the recess where the tail lights sit in. It's connected to its counterpart which is held in place with a plastic nut on a screw-stud. Need to undo this and poke the wire and grommet back through its hole. This is the numberplate light and likely has a cream heat sleeve over it.

Finally, you'll need to crawl under the car and look upwards for 2x big allen bolts. These are the load bearing bolts for the bumper (which is pretty heavy). They screw in vertically, from underneath. The recepticle they screw into is a retained plate that's free to slide around, so it's just the bolts and an eccentric washer that will come out. They go through what I think are called buffer mounts, which are fixed to the chassis itself. On my car, I need to move both tailpipes out of the way to access these bolts, thats roughly where you're looking.

Once these are done the bumper won't just fall off, it needs to be slid off, backwards. Get a second pair of hands, it's not light (there's heat shields and an ally beam behind the pu of the bumper)

(ETA - Get yourself a download of the Porsche PET parts diagrams, you'll see all the parts I describe in it.)

Hope that helps
Spencer