Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always working is imperative. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out as time passes and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re most likely on this website 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 Regal, we’ve made this document to help you do it alone and independently and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will examine the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Buick Regal 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 Buick Regal is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety features of your Buick Regal. Indeed, you are in general in a hurry and tend to get into your car, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is consequently important to take the time to once in a while verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Buick Regal, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple options to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap it promptly:

  • 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 functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indication on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Buick Regal, 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 verify and examine which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first procedure shown earlier mentioned.

You may have an additional 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 perform this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Buick Regal

Now let’s go to the most important step of this document, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Buick Regal? You should be aware that this technique is quite easy, 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Buick Regal. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special document. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to carry out this action efficiently dependant on the method you wish to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Buick Regal 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 Regal by the new one (be sure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb works.

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

    This approach is especially 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 off 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.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Buick Regal 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 point them right now:

    • Put your Buick Regal 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 cautious with the plastic staples which can be vulnerable.
    • Take out your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Buick Regal following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you wish more tutorials on the Buick Regal, go to our Buick Regal category.