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Hey E36 Fanatics, Steven here. Today I'm going to be part, or I'm going to be removing the front
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bumper on a 1996 328i. It's pretty much the same thing for any E36 series vehicle. As you can see
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here, there's a lot of stuff already missing. The front nose panel's gone, the hood's gone
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the fenders go on door. I'm parting this car out so that is why all these parts are missing
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I'm getting ready to remove the bumper as well, both bumpers. I want to make a video on how to
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remove it. It's pretty easy to do and the fact that I have these missing pieces here won't affect
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your removal of the front bumper. The first thing you're going to do is you need to remove
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the toe cover which is right here and then you also need to remove this other panel right here which you probably need a screwdriver but mine was already loose So then pull it forward because it got those hooks so once you pull it out once you pull it
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out in the front here you pull it forward so you don't break these plastic hooks here
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and you can see behind it you got these two 14 millimeter nuts here and that is
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holding in the bumper so you're gonna need to remove those that's the same
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thing behind the toe cover plastic right here Get that out
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Same thing two 14s well I believe they actually 13s but I don really care So next step you have wires I can see them from the top because I removed the headlights
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and the nose trim, but you won't be able to do that. You'll have to get it from the bottom down
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here. But here's the fog light that you will need to disconnect. Just pull it back of this
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so normally there is a inner fender well here that is covering this whole space however i
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previously pulled it when i was removing the fender uh because it was in my it was in my way
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yeah so with the fender well you've got this one screw right here which I think I just tore
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I tore the fender well through that you got this one screw here for the fender well and then at
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the very bottom you have several screws here that you need to remove to remove the bumper so like I said I hate to do it to you but I already pulled the fender well before but it really easy like I said just
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uh these this screw here and then there's several screws on the bottom of the bumper so you just got to go under the car
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It helps to jack it up the front end up a little bit to get under there
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So that's really it and then once you've gotten to that point
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And you can see where the bumper actually slides into here. Into this clip right here
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It slides into that. And it comes right off. Voila. And I'm not going to reinstall this bumper, obviously, because I'm selling this bumper
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But if you were to reinstall it, it's very simple. It's literally the exact same way you removed it
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There's nothing special you have to do. Hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please like, comment, and subscribe
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Y'all have a good one
