[V8] Reluctant Bumper Cover Resolved

[Dave Head]

I leave 'em off - I'm in there enough it isn't worth it. AND its even 
worse on a 4.2 model with the auto...

Kneale Brownson wrote:

>So, after several frustrating hours of pulling, prying, yanking and
>pounding, I'm standing there beside the car reviewing the bumper cover
>removal process.  Six nuts, right?  And I look at my pile of nuts there.
>Wait, something's not right here.  I've got EIGHT nuts.  WTF?  I should
>have six.  So I have four nuts, referenced earlier as the "more forward"
>set, two from each side, that I didn't need to take off and I have two that
>haven't been removed yet.  It's the two "hidden" ones, one on the inside of
>each flange at the end of the frame rail.  I never saw them and I'm not
>sure how I got them out with no room for a ratchet and no visibility to
>determine whether the socket was on them, but they're out and the cover is
>on the floor.  Guess what two nuts will be impossible to reinstall when I
>put that sucker back together?
>
>Thanks to all for their suggestions.  No thanks to Audi for a
>struggle-to-service design.
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