It doesn’t matter if for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is extremely important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out with time and therefore need to be replaced. You’re quite likely 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 Buick LaCrosse, we’ve written this article to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will examine controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Buick LaCrosse and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognize if the front turn signal bulb on your Buick LaCrosse is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety features of your Buick LaCrosse. Indeed, you are most of the time in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a consequence fundamental to take the time to occasionally verify the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Buick LaCrosse, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple techniques to control 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 control that they are operational.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible sign on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Buick LaCrosse, you will recognize 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 verify and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first solution shown previously.

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

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Buick LaCrosse

Now let’s go to the most important step of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Buick LaCrosse? Please be aware that this operation is quite simple, you will require to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or through your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Buick LaCrosse. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special article. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to accomplish this action efficiently depending on the strategy you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Buick LaCrosse 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 Buick LaCrosse by the new one (make sure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the brand-new front turn signal bulb is effective.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Buick LaCrosse through the wheel arch:

    This methodology is in particular valuable 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 operate 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 basic steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Buick LaCrosse through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 describe them now:

    • Put your Buick LaCrosse 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 delicate.
    • Take out your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Buick LaCrosse following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    Whenever you have any additional questions about the Buick LaCrosse, do not hesitate to consult our Buick LaCrosse category.