Why do you need my VIN to sell me a front bumper?

Because a U5 front bumper is not one part number but a family of versions. The bumper shell is fitted with different openings and a different wiring harness depending on whether the car has a surround-view camera, front parking sensors, a front bumper air duct, and whether it was sold with an EU or a China number-plate bracket. The VIN tells us which of those the car was built with; a generic part risks arriving with the wrong openings and a harness that has nothing to plug into.

Are the left and right headlamps the same part?

No. They are separate parts with separate references, and the manual numbers them with a digit that tells you which is which: in the external lighting position diagram the lamp ending in 2 is the right-hand one and the lamp ending in 4 is the left-hand one. Ordering by the wrong digit is one of the most common ways to end up with a lamp that does not fit. Always state the side as well as the part.

Can I fit a China-market bumper or lamp to a European U5?

No, and the reason is concrete rather than commercial. The body exterior parts exist in parallel EU and China versions, including the front and rear number-plate brackets, which carry different part references for each market. A European car has to be supplied with the EU version. If your car was first sold in Europe, say so when you enquire.

Is the rear tail lamp one part or several?

The manual treats the rear lighting as two separate assemblies, referred to as tail lamp I and tail lamp II, each with its own document reference and its own removal procedure. Tail lamp I covers the brake, turn and position lamp segments on both sides; tail lamp II covers the rear position and turn lamp plus the high-mounted brake lamp. Tell us which of the two you need, and which side — they are not interchangeable and they are not one purchase.

Do you supply painted body panels?

We supply the panel, and finish is a separate matter. A replacement bumper or fender arrives as the part; painting is done locally to match your car, and you need the car colour code rather than a photograph for that. The separate guide on Aiways colour and trim codes explains where that code comes from. We work from part numbers, and if we cannot verify a part for your VIN we say so rather than ship a guess.

Aiways U5 body panels and lights: how to confirm the version

A front bumper for an Aiways U5 is not one part. It is a family of versions, and which one your car takes is decided by equipment that has nothing to do with which bumper looks right: whether there is a surround-view camera up front, whether the car has front and rear parking sensors, blind-spot radar or a tailgate kick sensor, and whether it was sold with an EU or a China number-plate bracket. Headlamps split into left and right, the tail lighting splits into two separate assemblies, and China-market and EU-market body parts do not interchange at all. This page is about the one thing that matters before you buy: what we need from you in order to send the right part the first time.

1. What actually gets replaced after a front-end knock

Knowing the list is useful, because it explains why a single part number never covers the job. The front-end items this class of car most often needs are the front bumper assembly, its upper and lower body, the lower grille, the upper and lower trim pieces, the front bumper air duct, the fender assembly, the front wheel arch trim panel and the front headlamp assembly. A rear-end impact more commonly needs the rear bumper assembly, the rear bumper mounting bracket, and whichever of the two rear tail lamp assemblies was damaged.

Each of those lines hides versions inside it. The bumper upper body is documented together with a removal list that includes the surround-view camera, the number-plate bracket in its EU form, the bumper air duct and the trim — in other words, the manual itself tells you the bumper shell varies with what is bolted to it.

2. Headlamps: left and right are different parts

The external lighting position diagram numbers the headlamps so that the side is readable from the reference itself: the lamp reference ending in 2 is the right-hand lamp and the one ending in 4 is the left-hand lamp. They are separate parts, not mirror images you can swap, and this is the single most common way an owner ends up with a lamp that does not fit.

Each headlamp assembly covers the high and low beam, the daytime running lamp, the front position lamp and the front turn signal, and carries the headlamp levelling motor. The manual also gives the workshop a figure for the lamp's four fixing bolts: 6 ± 1 Nm. We quote that so you can tell whether a workshop is working to the manufacturer's figure — not as an instruction to remove anything yourself.

3. Tail lamps: two assemblies, not one

Rear lighting is documented as two separate assemblies, referred to as tail lamp I and tail lamp II, each with its own reference and its own removal procedure:

Assembly	What it covers
Tail lamp I	The brake, turn and position lamp segments on both sides.
Tail lamp II	The rear position and rear turn lamp, plus the high-mounted brake lamp.

Because they are documented separately and removed differently, they are ordered separately. If you have damage at the rear, tell us which of the two you need and which side, rather than describing it as "a tail light".

4. Bumpers: the version is decided by the equipment

The bumper carries a wiring harness whose contents change with the car's specification, and the openings in the shell change with it. The manual's own harness layouts make the pattern clear.

Harness	What runs through it
Front bumper	Surround-view camera (front), long-range ultrasonic sensors (left front / right front), short-range ultrasonic sensors, the outside temperature sensor, and the connectors running back to the front compartment harness.
Rear bumper	Blind-spot monitoring radar (left / right), the tailgate kick-opening sensor, and a connection to the body harness that is listed as optional.

That is the practical version question in one sentence: a bumper without the right openings and the right harness cannot be made to work on a car that has those features, and a harnessed bumper is wasted on a car that does not. So when you ask for a bumper, answer these:

Does the car have a front surround-view camera?
Does it have front and rear parking sensors, and how many at each end?
Does it have blind-spot monitoring (radar units in the rear bumper)?
Does it have a tailgate kick sensor?
Is the number-plate bracket EU or China?

5. China-market and EU-market parts do not interchange

The body exterior catalogue holds these parts in parallel EU and China versions, and the number-plate brackets are the clearest example: front and rear plate brackets each exist in an EU form and a China form, with different references. A European car has to be supplied from the EU side of that split. This is not a preference and not something a bracket can be bent to fix — say which market your car was first sold in, and we will supply from the matching list.

6. What to send us so the version is confirmed

This is the whole point of the page. Four things settle almost every case, and the fifth finishes the rest.

The first eight characters of the VIN (on these cars it begins LVX). This is what lets us identify the built specification instead of assuming it.
The side — left or right — for anything that comes in two sides: headlamps, fenders, wheel arch trims, mirror housings, one-sided panels.
The equipment level as fitted: surround-view camera, front and rear sensors, blind-spot radar, kick sensor, EU or China market. Not the trim name from a brochure — what is actually on the car.
Photographs: the damaged part on the car, any number moulded or printed on it, and the connector it plugs into. A photograph of the connector often answers a version question the VIN cannot, because connectors differ between equipment levels.
For rear damage, which tail lamp assembly (I or II) and which side.

7. When the part arrives: check the connector, not the box

There is a genuine safeguard available on these cars, and it is worth knowing before the part ships. The car side uses numbered connector references — in the FB01 to FB10 range at the front bumper and RB01 to RB20 at the rear — and the manufacturer's component connector end view lists, for each of those connectors, how many pins it has and the wire colours at each pin, including which circuits are optional.

In practice: when the replacement arrives, compare the connector on the part with the connector on the car and against that end view — pin count and wire colours. A mismatch is a version error, and it is far cheaper to find it before the bumper is painted and fitted than after. If you send us a photograph of the connector on the car, we will match it at our end.

8. The manual's document numbers are not order numbers

those internal document numbers are not orderable references — they are how the manual labels its own pages — and the orderable reference for your car is confirmed from the VIN. The numbers the workshop manual uses to label its own pages are document numbers — they identify a procedure, a position diagram or a harness layout. An orderable OE reference is a different string in a different format.

Manual document reference	What it identifies
378671	Front headlamp assembly
397461	External lighting, position diagram (this is where the left/right numbering is defined)
356361	External lighting, description and operation
397501	External lighting, system control diagram
388091	Headlamp aiming / light calibration
376451	Rear tail lamp I assembly
397561	Rear tail lamp II assembly
364061	Front bumper assembly
1494771	Front bumper upper body
394171	Front bumper lower body
361001	Front bumper lower grille
372251	Fender assembly
376811	Rear bumper assembly
394211	Pedestrian leg impact beam
405581	Front bumper harness, routing view
547221	Rear bumper harness, routing view
1845391	Component connector end views — pin counts, wire colours and optional circuits

None of the strings in that table is a part you can order. Orderable OE references look like this: the front bumper upper cover is 861841101, and the front headlamp is referenced in the form 861961101E. Those are the kind of numbers a quote is built from. They are listed apart from the manual document numbers on purpose, and we only quote the ones we can verify against a specific car.

One caution on the lamp reference: an "E" suffix circulates in some sources for the U5 headlamp. That naming does not appear in the manual text we hold, so we treat it as something to verify per VIN rather than something to order against. If your car needs a lamp, send the VIN and we will confirm the reference that applies to it.

9. What the manual does not cover, and what we will not invent

Being straight about the gaps saves everyone a wasted order:

The manual does not carry orderable part numbers. It identifies components by its own document references. Any orderable reference has to be confirmed separately, per vehicle.
It does not contain a configuration-to-part-number mapping table for body panels and lamps — no matrix that turns "has a camera, EU market" into a reference. That is why the VIN and the photographs do the work.
It does not give paint codes for these panels. Colour is handled separately; there is a guide for that below.
It does not use the trim names a sales brochure might, and it gives no specification values for the bumper harness connectors beyond the wiring layout itself — pin counts and wire colours, not voltages.

10. Short answers

Can I just order the cheapest bumper that looks the same?: Not safely. The visible shape is shared between versions; what differs is the openings and the harness inside, which is exactly the part you cannot see in a photograph. That is the version question, and it is the whole reason we ask for the VIN.
My lamp works but the aiming is wrong. New lamp?: Have the aiming measured first. Headlamp alignment is checked against a screen at 10 m and the manual gives figures for where the beam centre should sit — at or below 1000 mm lamp height the centre should be 50 to 300 mm below the horizontal line, above 1000 mm it is 100 to 350 mm, with horizontal limits of about 170 mm left and 350 mm right and four adjustment points. A lamp that is out of alignment is not necessarily a failed lamp, and a replacement lamp has to be aimed anyway.
Should I remove the bumper myself to photograph the part?: No. Send photographs of what is visible on the car, plus any number you can read or photograph without removing anything, and the connector you can reach. We do not need the part off the car to identify the version, and front structure work belongs with a qualified workshop.
What about the fender and wheel arch trim?: Both are side-specific and are ordered per side. Tell us the side and the VIN; the trim panel and the fender are separate purchases, not one assembly.
Will you fit or paint it?: No. We supply parts. Fitting, painting and the lamp aiming afterwards are done by a workshop — and we will happily give you the manual's figures so you can check they were done properly.

Where this comes from. The component layout, the version differences, the left/right lamp numbering, the tail lamp I / II split, the harness contents, the EU and China part families, the connector references and the aiming figures are drawn from the Aiways U5 workshop manual — the external lighting and body section documentation, the harness routing views, the parameter and aiming documents, and the component connector end views. The orderable OE references quoted here come from our own supplier data, not from the manual, which does not carry orderable numbers at all. Where we rely on our own supply data rather than the manual, we say so. Wording is our own; we do not reproduce manual pages, and we do not publish the manufacturer's own text.

Important — please read before you act on anything here

This page is general information only. It is not a repair instruction, not a diagnosis of your particular vehicle, and not a substitute for professional advice. Have any work carried out by a qualified workshop or an authorised service centre. Do not attempt a repair yourself unless you are trained and equipped to do it.

High-voltage safety. This is an electric vehicle. Its high-voltage system can cause fatal injury. Never open, disconnect, cut or work on high-voltage components, cables or connectors unless you are qualified to do so, and always follow the manufacturer's own safety procedure.

Vehicles differ. Equipment, hardware versions and part numbers change between model years, markets and individual VINs. Confirm what applies to your vehicle before ordering or repairing anything. The manufacturer's documentation is the authoritative source for your car — where anything here differs from it, follow the manufacturer.

Consumables and specifications change without notice. Torque figures, fluids and procedures given here are for orientation only.

No liability. This information is published in good faith and to the best of our knowledge, but we accept no liability for any loss, damage or injury arising from reliance on it. Use it at your own risk, and verify anything safety-critical before you rely on it.

Who we are. GNSGO is an independent supplier of parts. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or acting as an authorised agent of any vehicle manufacturer. References to a vehicle or model describe compatibility only.

11. Related

Need the right version? Send the first eight characters of the VIN, the side, and what is fitted to the car — get in touch and we will confirm the reference that applies before anything is ordered.