Regardless for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being certain your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is imperative. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out over the years and as a consequence need to be replaced. You’re perhaps in this article because one of your front turn signals is burnt out and you’re questioning how to change the bulb of a front turn signal on your Citroen Xantia, we’ve made this article content to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your technician. In a first part, we will examine controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Xantia and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to find out if the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Xantia is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t constantly have the opportunity to check all the safety components of your Citroen Xantia. Indeed, you are often times in a hurry and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is therefore important to take the time to sometimes check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Citroen Xantia, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple methods to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap it rather quickly:

  • When you stop, turn on the ignition on your car, then alternately turn on your left and right front turn signals and get out of the car to verify that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Citroen Xantia, you will identify that the time between each “click” is much closer, this denotes that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first technique shown previously.

You may have another bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to read our blog posts to help you to do this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Xantia

Now let’s go to the most important part of this article content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen Xantia? Please note that this procedure is fairly simple, you will need to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Citroen Xantia. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated article content. However, here are the details of the steps to stick to in order to accomplish this action accurately depending on the approach you want to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Xantia through the bonnet:

  • Open your bonnet and clear access to your headlight pods.
  • Use a torx tip to open the headlight unit on your car
  • Unscrew the front turn signal bulb from your car by turning it a quarter turn counterclockwise
  • Replace the front flasher bulb of your Citroen Xantia by the new one (ensure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb operates.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen Xantia through the wheel arch:

    This solution is specifically practical when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take out the front wheel on the side you want to work on.
    • Take out your wheel arch with a torx bit.
    • Go to your headlamp block and swap the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same procedures as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen Xantia through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, based on the options the only simple access you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb of your car will be to pass under your front bumper, there are only a few steps that change from the full process, we will detail them right now:

    • Put your Citroen Xantia on a jack or a candle.
    • Remove the screws of the motor shoe of your car(plastic part under your motor) and your shock absorber. Be careful with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Take away your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Citroen Xantia following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more tutorials on the Citroen Xantia, go to our Citroen Xantia category.