Just did this last night and will share my findings in case they're helpful for anyone else who searches "bumper removal" or "how to remove bumper CT4VBW" or whatever.
Yes to all of these of these tips.
I initially had the car on ramps but bailed on that once I realized you essentially had to be able to turn the wheel for wheel well clearance. If you do get the car in the air for this, an oil change would be a great "while you're in there" thing to do, or vice versa.
Also, I would hate to have to do this job with a manual ratchet for the T15 Torx bit; you'd be there all day. I found a way to adapt down to 1/4" drive for my battery ratchet and it saved me tons of time. I think I did 4x in each wheel well, the 7 or 8 along the core support, and maybe 15ish along the splitter/ front lip area.
For the one bolt holding fender to bumper, a ratcheting 7mm box wrench would be best but I got it done with a 7mm socket.
Otherwise, the tips listed in
this post from
@Dirkbg are also great. I still struggled a bit with the main connection harness but eventually got it. Unfortunately, I too struggled with the clips under the driver's headlight. Apparently so did my body shop that replaced the bumper (long story), as one of the tabs under the headlight was broken and reglued. I rebroke it during removal and have reglued it, again, and hope it will hold enough to snug everything up. Once the driver's side headlight clips were out, there was enough wiggle room in the whole thing to make the passenger side ones a breeze.
I hope your install goes better than mine... after all that, the dive planes i was installing didn't fit and broke a bunch of tabs, but that's a separate post.
www.cadillacvnet.com
. Anyone mention what epoxy these used for the mounts? Was looking at 3m 8115 but 65$ for a little bit, hopefully something more affordable will suffice.
