Removal of front bar and bonnet from 05 sportivo

[420NLY]

Hi, i am new to this forum and have recently purchased an black 2005 sportivo with a major stone chip problem on the front bar and bonnet. Its like the previous owner regularly travelled behind trucks or something. Anyway i want to take off the front bar and bonnet and get them resprayed. I would like to know how hard it is to remove the front bar (how many screw/bolts there are etc) from the car. I am super paronoid about taking the whole car to a spray shop cause they are sure to flog the absolute beegeezuz out of it while its getting fixed. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

420NLY

[and1]

Hi, i am new to this forum and have recently purchased an black 2005 sportivo with a major stone chip problem on the front bar and bonnet. Its like the previous owner regularly travelled behind trucks or something. Anyway i want to take off the front bar and bonnet and get them resprayed. I would like to know how hard it is to remove the front bar (how many screw/bolts there are etc) from the car. I am super paronoid about taking the whole car to a spray shop cause they are sure to flog the absolute beegeezuz out of it while its getting fixed. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

420NLY

mate not too hard at all.. Only a few screws (bout 10) for the front bar and only 4 hold the bonnet to the brackets. Just gotta find em all ;)

[420NLY]

Hi, i am new to this forum and have recently purchased an black 2005 sportivo with a major stone chip problem on the front bar and bonnet. Its like the previous owner regularly travelled behind trucks or something. Anyway i want to take off the front bar and bonnet and get them resprayed. I would like to know how hard it is to remove the front bar (how many screw/bolts there are etc) from the car. I am super paronoid about taking the whole car to a spray shop cause they are sure to flog the absolute beegeezuz out of it while its getting fixed. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

420NLY

mate not too hard at all.. Only a few screws (bout 10) for the front bar and only 4 hold the bonnet to the brackets. Just gotta find em all ;)

Do the headlights have to come out as well?

[Kenneth.]

Hi, i am new to this forum and have recently purchased an black 2005 sportivo with a major stone chip problem on the front bar and bonnet. Its like the previous owner regularly travelled behind trucks or something. Anyway i want to take off the front bar and bonnet and get them resprayed. I would like to know how hard it is to remove the front bar (how many screw/bolts there are etc) from the car. I am super paronoid about taking the whole car to a spray shop cause they are sure to flog the absolute beegeezuz out of it while its getting fixed. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

420NLY

mate not too hard at all.. Only a few screws (bout 10) for the front bar and only 4 hold the bonnet to the brackets. Just gotta find em all ;)

Do the headlights have to come out as well?

Nope, the headlights sit attached to the chassis. The front bar is separate from the headlights.

[sinan]

there is quite a few bolts underneath the front bar that connect to the splash guards under the motor. and also some more in the wheel arches were the bar joines the arches.

[Kenneth.]

And 2 or 4 bolts at the top when you open your bonnet, where the grille attaches to the chassis.

[Sport_ivo]

can i bump this thread up, rather than making a new one asking the same question...

but how do you unhook the clip on the sides?????

found all the screws etc... just need to unhook the clips... yet cant seem too... lol

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[Guni]

Look sooooooooooooooooooo familiar ....... <_<

Nirvana

[Sport_ivo]

so how do you unclip the clips was the question?

seen that thread and no where does it mention how to unclip the clip on the side. i dont want to break anything...

Thanks

[Guni]

Flat head screw driver to pry the middle clip upwards

Then it comes loose and u can pull the whole clip out from the housing.

[Sport_ivo]

haha ok thanks for that just went a gave it a go and it was easy, much easier than i thought but i was looking at the wrong bit... thanks for you help...

toyota n00bness ftw!

[Guni]

np

[123R-Prozak]

welcome to the forums!!!!

good idea not to give the whole car to them, btw how you getting it to them? and will that damage the paint when taking it home