How To Remove Front Bumper 1999-2004 Honda Odyssey

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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace or remove the front bumper cover. This is a 2003 Honda Odyssey, same as any 1999 to 2004. The only tools you'll need is a flat blade screwdriver as well as an 8mm and 10mm wrench or socket and ratchet. In the video, you'll notice I use a lift to lift the vehicle up, but it's not necessary, I just do this to help the video. You don't need to jack up or lift the vehicle to do this.

Open up the hood of your van and there are eleven clips. These clips are pretty easy just use a flat blade screwdriver and pry underneath, pry on one side, pry on the other. Sometimes they're a little hard to get going, but then either the middle comes out, the middle came out on that one, and the clip comes out, or sometimes you have to pry the whole clip out.

Let's see, let's do another one here. This one, pop the middle up and then the whole clip came out on that one. There's one, two, three, four, five, I'm missing one there, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven of those clips. I'm just going to fast-forward here as I remove those clips. Sometimes sand and stuff can get into them and make them hard to pry up, so just be careful, you don't want to break the tops of them off, just pry on one side carefully, pry on the other side, and then go to the next one.

Now, looking up underneath the van, you'll find some of the same clips. There should be four of them. One, two, and the third and fourth here are missing. Once again fast-forward and this is where you'll really find that they can get gummed up and mucked up with sand and are hard to get out. Actually, I think on this one I end up just prying one of them out and breaking it off because it doesn't really come out the right way. Now on each side, near the wheel, there's a 10mm bolt right down here and then up inside the fender more there is an 8mm bolt right up in here.

Again, I'm fast-forwarding using a 10mm socket and ratchet or a wrench would work as well. On this vehicle, that 10mm bolt is rusted into the clip so it actually ends up tearing the plastic underneath. That's something that might happen, and there's really no way to prevent it. Then I go and do the 8mm bolt and it comes out no problem and repeat that for the other side. Now you're ready to remove the bumper cover, pull out, push down a little bit and pull out. Actually this bumper can come off. Do the same on the other side, pull out, bring it right out.

I think on some vehicles, they'll have fog lights. If you have fog lights, you want to reach in there and disconnect them. Before I put the bumper cover back on, I'll just pull out the leaves and some of the stuff that's stuck in here. I just have two of my clips, they don't have any centers.

What I'm going to do is put the bumper cover into place, make sure that the tabs here go up on top of the brackets underneath the lights. Once you get it pretty much into place, I'm just going to put these two clips right on top here just to hold things in place. Over here, pull it in. This is actually the clip that the screw goes into, it just fell out so make sure that's up in there and then push the bumper cover down a little bit, put it up underneath here. It's got to go up on top of this clip but then down to clear that little screw. Put the other side in place.

Now I'm just going to put my leg right against here, pull these two clips back up and out. Put this down in place, this needs to go down underneath there. Put all the clips. I took the centers out of all my clips, just to make them so they go in nice and easy except for this one the center wouldn't come out of it. I'll kick it into high speed here as I just put the rest of those clips in and then grab all the centers and clip them into place to lock them.

These little close outs didn't quite go up there correctly. That's all right, you've just got to force them into the right place. Same thing on this side. Then I only had two clips on the bottom, so I'm going to put them right on this inside one, make sure it goes through two things. It goes through both your bumper cover and this part here, get it in.

Actually, I'm putting the middle back in there, reach right up through here and then squeeze everything together, push it in. Same thing over here. Make sure it goes through all three pieces and then squeeze it like that. 8mm screw in here firmly, it was missing this bolt here. Put this one in on this side. All right on this side my 10mm bolt was rusted in place.

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