In a previous post near the end of the year, I was looking for a 'good conditioned' rear bumper for an 05-07 X as my wife introduced our X to an Audi TT Roadster over the Thanksgiving wknd. I signed up on the forums to start looking and Haynes in California had put on a Calmini Rear with Swing bar and offered to sell me his at a great price. Needless to say, thanks to the forum for putting me in touch with Haynes and I've also seen a few others since then. Anyways... to the grit.

First, remove the spare - makes it so much easier to work in the area without it hanging around.
The install would have gone fine except for one small problem: bolt 6 would not come off with my impact wrench (360 ft/lb. of torque at that). The other 5 bolts didn't have a problem at all. Had to take it to Big 10 tire to get it loosened (and get my tires rotated while I was there, hehe).

Once the bolt was loosened, no problem at all. I will say this though... you've gotta have an impact wrench. And you'll notice on my pictures that I've got a hitch and it was nice to know that I didn't have to take off the hitch when doing this. The bumper slid right off, nice and easy.

pictures: bolts that needed to be removed passenger side:

and driver side:


the x with no bumper:


the new tieups for the license plate lamps:
driver side:


passenger side:


and finally, the new bumper:


the damage on the old one was to the RIGHT of the license plate lamp on the passenger side of the bumper.

Glad to see that it is on and fits well.
Cheers.

thanks for posting the pictures, my parked xterra was chosen to see if it could stop a nissan sentra going 5 mph so i have minor bent bumper and have been putting off taking it off and getting it painted. now that i have seen your photos, i will be doing the same as you.