It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always operational is extremely important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out over time and therefore need to be changed. You’re perhaps on this site because one of your front turn signals is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change the bulb of a front turn signal on your Acura MDX, we’ve written this content page to help you do it alone and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first part, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Acura MDX 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 Acura MDX is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your automobile you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety components of your Acura MDX. Indeed, you are most likely in a rush and tend to enter into your automobile, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is consequently relevant to take the time to once in a while check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Acura MDX, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple methods to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it 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 control that they are functional.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Acura MDX, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and examine which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first technique shown earlier mentioned.

You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to consult our blog posts to help you to complete this substitution.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Acura MDX

Now let’s go to the main part of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Acura MDX? You should be aware that this technique is very simple, you will require 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 Acura MDX. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content page. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to conduct this action properly depending on the strategy you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Acura MDX 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 Acura MDX by the new one (make certain to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb is effective.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Acura MDX through the wheel arch:

    This approach is especially effective when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and remove 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 replace the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Acura MDX through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to the options the only simple access you will have to replace 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 describe them now:

    • Put your Acura MDX 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 mindful with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Take out your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Acura MDX following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Acura MDX, take a look at the Acura MDX category.