Withdrawal
Open the luggage compartment, remove the floor mat.
Unscrew the two bolts and 1 nut securing the left luggage compartment floor trim.
If equipped, remove the battery cover.
Remove 1 bolt and 1 nut from the right luggage compartment floor trim.
Remove three spacer clips in the left and right wheel arches.
Unscrew the 4 wrench nuts 13 mm, the holes of which are indicated by arrows. Attention: If the battery is in the luggage compartment, first unscrew the ground jumper with a 13 mm wrench. When the battery is disconnected, the information in the electronic memory devices, such as the engine trouble memory or the radio security code memory, is erased. Disconnect the battery only when the ignition is switched off, so as not to damage the fuel injection system control unit. When disconnecting the battery, follow the instructions in sections "Radio" And "Removing and installing the battery".
Pull out the bumper with an assistant.
Installation
Assemble the bumper (Drawing W 48209). In doing so, fasten the shock absorbers to the bumper with a tightening torque of 45 Nm.
Align the bumper parallel to the body and tighten the bolts to 22 Nm.
If turned away, screw the battery ground jumper.
Attention: Connect the battery only when the ignition is switched off, otherwise the control unit of the fuel injection system may fail. Set clock time. Set radio security code, see section "Setting the radio code".