how do I remove the front Fascia of my Versa?

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Tacuvito
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We had some idiot back into my car while in a parking lot and now one corner of my front bumper is sunk in and scratched. I need some help removing the front fascia of the bumper so I can pop the fascia back into shape. By luck the bumper only appears to be pushed in and slightly scratched. I want to fix this before I take the car to MAACO to fix the scratches. A local body shop was charging me $300 for just pushing the the bumper back into place! Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.


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You can find the directions in the FSM:

http://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/versa

Just select your year and then open the index pdf to determine what pdf has the information you need

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A big hammer?

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Tacuvito wrote:We had some idiot back into my car while in a parking lot and now one corner of my front bumper is sunk in and scratched. I need some help removing the front fascia of the bumper so I can pop the fascia back into shape. By luck the bumper only appears to be pushed in and slightly scratched. I want to fix this before I take the car to MAACO to fix the scratches. A local body shop was charging me $300 for just pushing the the bumper back into place! Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
what might be easier than taking off the bumper is, jack up the damaged side, remove tire, remove about half of the fender liner from the very front back to the strut and reach in there and push it out.

on a side note, my grammer really sucks.

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To close the loop, I was able to remove the bumper, let the bumper warm up under the Texas sun and then I laid it over piece of foam that I have and with a rubber mallet I gave it two good strikes and the bumper got back into shape. Thanks to all for your help with this matter.


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