Regardless for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out after awhile and as a consequence need to be changed. You’re most certainly on this website 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 Alfa Romeo Giulietta, we’ve created this content to help you do it alone and independently and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first step, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta and in a second step, 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 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 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 Alfa Romeo Giulietta. Indeed, you are mostly in a hurry and tend to get into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a result essential to take the time to sometimes check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple options to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 check that they are working.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta, you will perceive that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first methodology shown previously.

You may have an additional bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to consult our content articles to help you to perform this replacement.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta

Now let’s go to the main step of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta? Please note that this operation is really easy, you will have 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 Alfa Romeo Giulietta. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content. On the other hand, here are the details of the guidelines to follow in order to perform this act efficiently depending on the method you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Alfa Romeo Giulietta 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 Alfa Romeo Giulietta by the new one (ensure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb operates.
  • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta through the wheel arch:

    This process is specifically effective when you don’t have enough space in the hood 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 swap the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 technique, we will explain them now:

    • Put your Alfa Romeo Giulietta 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. Beware with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Remove your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Alfa Romeo Giulietta following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, do not hesitate to consult our Alfa Romeo Giulietta category.