Bumper Quick Release Installation

Time Required: 2.5 hours

Difficulty Level: Moderate, depending on your skill will a drill

Materials/Tools needed:

•Power Drill

•Stepped ¼- ¾ drill bit

•¼ drill bit

•10mm Wrench/Ratchet

•7/16 Wrench

•Adjustable Wrench or 7/8”Wrench or Socket

•Needle Nose Pliers

•Painters Tape

•Thread locker/Loctite

•White Chalk

•Black Pen

•Quick Release Bracket kit

The kit itself will contain everything below:

Step 1: Screw and Spring Assembly

Start off the ball topped screws and the threaded washers. Starting from the threaded end, screw or push the washer

past the threads as shown below.

Now put the spring on so it sits on the threaded washer and screw one nut in behind it to hold in place. Your screw

and spring assembly should look like these.

Step 2: Pair-up Bracket and Screw/Spring Assembly

A. On the Spring/Screw Assembly put another washer on behind the nut that is holding the spring in place and

thread through the single holes on the black bracket.

B. On the backside of the bracket attach another washer and nut to secure the screw/spring assembly to the

bracket. If it looks like this you’ve been doing it right.

Step 3: Remove Front bumper

A.There are other threads on how to do this so I’m not going to in-depth. Remove all screws from left, right, and

center of the underside of the bumper.

B.Open the hood and remove the screws from just above the grill.

C.Pull back the clips from above the wheels and under the headlights.

D.Remove the bumper and disconnect fog lights.

Step 4: Remove Stock Mounting brackets

A. Once the bumper has been removed you will find the stock brackets that will look like this.

B. To remove them use the 10mm ratchet and unscrew the two screws that are highlighted in red below.

C.Once the screws are removed the stock bracket can be taken off. This will require a little bit of force and jiggling as

there are plastic clips holding it on.

D.After the stock bracket is removed KEEP THE SMALL WHITE PLASTIC TABS AND MOUNTING SCREWS. Put these

white tabs back into the mounting holes for the screws as they are needed to remount your new bracket.

Highlighted below in yellow are the plastic tabs.

Step 5: Mount Quick Release Bracket Kit

A. Grab your Quick Release Bracket, drill with ¼ drill bit, and chalk.

B .One of the screws is going to be too long to make the bracket fit properly. You have two choices; either grind/cut

down the screw so it will fit (3/4”) or drill into the plastic wall to make enough room for the screw to go through. I

decided the latter was easier and drilled into the plastic.

C. Chalk up the end of the screw that does not fit and test fit the bracket to the mounting holes. The chalk will make

a mark on the plastic like this.

D. Using the ¼ bit, drill into the plastic at a slight angle. BE AWARE, do not drill too far and drill into your headlight.

You should end up with a hole that looks like this.

E. Now take the white tabs and mounting screws that you saved from earlier and mount your quick release bracket

kit. To make sure you are still on the right track you should be mounting the kit to the car through the oval shaped

holes on the bracket. Once mounted the kit should look like this.

F. Repeat on opposite side. Step 6: Finding Correct Alignment/Drilling Prep In order to find the correct alignment of the bumper you will need to partially reattach the bumper. A. Reattach the section above the grill of the bumper to the car. B. Reattach the clips underneath each headlight. C. Adjust the nuts on the quick release bracket until the threaded washer and ball end of the screw are close to being flush with the nearest body panel. D. Tighten down all nuts and screws. E. With the quick release bracket kit installed, take the chalk and mark the ball end of each screw.

F. Now pull the bumper up so that it aligns properly with the surrounding body panels and tap on the outside of the bumper so that the chalked ends of the screws leave a mark on the interior of the bumper. These marks will be the starting point for your holes. You should get something that looks like this.

G. Apply painters tape to the outside of the bumper. From the top corner tape down about 6 inches so that when

you drill in from the outside you are not chipping paint. The picture below is just to illustrate what it should look like.

Step 6: Drilling

A. With the ¼ bit drill a hole outwards from the interior of the bumper. This will give you a starting point for when

you finish the hole from the outside.

B. Once you have drilled the ¼ hole check to make sure the ball end of each screw is poking through and use one of

the included washers to trace a circle as a guide for where the rest of your hole should be.

C. With the stepped ¼-3/4 bit drill out the circle that you traced. You now have your holes for the push-button releases.

Step 7: Install Push-Button Releases to Check Fitment

A. Take the buttons and insert them into your newly drilled holes.

B. Screw on the included nut to secure it to the bumper.

C. At this point you might have some slight gaps between your bumper and the surrounding body panels and headlights.

This is ok, just adjust the nuts on the spring side of the bracket to change the tension on the springs and therefore

fitment of the bumper.

Step 8: Loosen nuts and add Loctite

A. Loosen the nuts on the push-release buttons and on the engine side of the bracket.

B. Apply Loctite. This is important as everything will come loose if not applied. Learn from my mistakes.

C. Tighten all nuts.

This complete install can be found on velosterturbo .org by going to this link: Move Over Quick Release bumper bracket

DIY install

Thanks to toadstool for a great write up.