How to Replace Bumper Cover 2010-14 Subaru Outback

Len: Hey friends, it's Len here at 1A Auto. Today I'm working on a 2013 Subaru Outback. I'm going to show you how to remove the front bumper cover. It's going to be a very easy job, I want to be the guy that shows you how to do it. If you need any parts, you can always check us out at 1AAuto.com. Thanks.

Okay, so one of the first things we're going to do obviously is pop the hood. Then we have a clear view of what we're doing up top here. We've got some push pins, here, here, coming along, there, there, okay? So we're going to remove all these, and I'm going to put one in, just a little bit, and I'm going to leave it like that. That's going to help hold the bumper so it's not going to fall off when I'm underneath there doing other stuff.

So here we go. For these all you go is take a small screwdriver, lift the center, then we should be able to pull it right up. There we are. So if you lift the center too far, it actually puts it back into the lock position, okay? You have to have it about half way. Put that there. We're just going to do this. And we'll come across the whole front here. We'll grab this one out of here. All of these are the exact same so you can use whichever one you want. I'm just going to put this right in the center here. And just leave it, I don't have to push it down or anything. Okay. Now we're going to raise the vehicle.

So we've got some push clips. We've got one here, here, here and then the same on the other side. We're going to do the same as the top, just try to pull out the center, see if we can drop it down a little bit. These ones are definitely more packed with dirt than the tops of course. So they're giving me a little bit more of an issue. So we got all those out. Right here, there's another one. This one looks like it's broken off the bumper cover already, so I'm not going to worry about that, but you should take it off if yours is still attached. One in the center, and there should be one here that's missing as well, so I'll pop that out anyway. We'll get this one out and then we're going to continue on to the other side and remove all those as well.

All right. Get the last one out, we'll bring it back down a little bit and we'll get the bolts out from inside the wheel well area. Okay. Got our last clip out, now we can go ahead. We're going to get up in here, this should just come down a little bit. Right up in here you can see where the fog lamps are, the assemblies. We can go ahead and turn this. There's our fog lamp bulb. If you wanted to replace the fog lamp bulb all you do is just squeeze this little clip right here, disconnect it, and there's our fog lamp bulb. We'll set this aside for now.

So right here, in the corner of the bumper, there's another push clip. Just going to use my pocket screwdriver like I've been doing. Give it a little twist, give myself some space to get my tool in there, my little forky tool, I love this thing. Get that popped. Just going to draw the clip out. There it is. Okay. Now we can slide the bumper cover off a little bit. Should come loose. We're going to do the same thing to the other side of the vehicle real quick and then we should be clear to start popping this bumper cover off.

So now I'm going to go ahead and grasp on to my bumper. I'm going to go from the side here, see if I can just kind of tug it out. Should want to pop right off, just like that. I've got my little clip in here, that's going to prevent my bumper from falling off and hitting the ground. Just put my hand in and behind, seems like it worked pretty good on the other side. All right. Here we go.

So there we are. Now we've removed our front bumper cover.

So now it's time to go ahead and install our bumper assembly. We're going to carefully bring it around. We don't want to scuff any paint. We want to keep it low on the sides. Bring it up, I'm just going to put one push clip in on the top for now. Leave it in here. That's just going to keep it from falling on me. Now we can go ahead and start lining everything up. Start with whichever side of the vehicle you want. Should just come right along, sit just underneath your headlamp assembly. Just going to give it a little bonk. Little loving bonk, that's my thing. Bonk, bonk. Here we are. Love it. We're going to go over here. We're going to do the same exact thing. I'm just going to lift it up, get it into it's little channel. So these little clippy dos, they go on the upper channel in there. You've got the bottom channel with all the ridges, and then above that, you've got the next channel up, it goes in between that and you headlight assembly, so you want to make sure those are sitting up on there. You want to pull your bumper kind of tight, okay. Bring it around. You got some little clippy dos over here on the sides, this clippy do needs to go up there.

So we'll just give the bumper a little tug. Give it a little loving bonk. Bonk, bonk. Here we are. Perfect. All right. We'll go ahead and do some push clips here. Make sure everything stays where we wanted it. You can either start or finish with these, whatever you want to do. Like I said before, with these clips, if you pull this all the way up, it kind of locks these pitons out, okay. So you have to kind of make sure it's just floating there in the center somewhere so these pitons can sit in that groove. So if you're having a hard time putting it in, you probably have it either up too high or down too low.

Once you get the perfect combination there, it just flows. We're going to put in our little push clip inside the fender well here. See if we can get it, everything lined up. I'm going to see if I can push this in. There we are. This is your inner fender well should run inside your bumper cover, if you notice it sitting out, just pop it in. We'll do the same thing to the other side of the vehicle real quick, we'll continue up with it and we'll finish up along the bottom.

So here we are, we've got our fog lamp, just going to connect it back in. This is an H11 bulb. Put it in under here. There it is. Locked in, feels great, let's tuck it in.

Just going to go like that, like that, there we are. Okay. We'll do the same thing to the other side, then we're going to go ahead and put in some push clips. We've got some push clips, just going to go ahead and try to put them in, give it a little twist if you have to. Push in the center. These things are nice clogged up with dirt and debris. There we are. There should be one here, this one was broken, we didn't remove it, this one was missing.

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