Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always working is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out with time and therefore need to be replaced. You’re perhaps 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 Chevrolet Bolt, we’ve created this content to help you do it without help and not have to go to your technician. In a first section, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Chevrolet Bolt and in a second section, 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 Chevrolet Bolt is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t constantly have the possibility to verify all the safety components of your Chevrolet Bolt. Indeed, you are often in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is therefore crucial 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 Chevrolet Bolt, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple options to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace 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 verify that they are working.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indication on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Chevrolet Bolt, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and check which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first procedure shown previously.

You may have an additional bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to read our blog posts to help you to conduct this replacing.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Chevrolet Bolt

Now let’s go to the most essential section of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Chevrolet Bolt? You should be aware that this operation is really 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 change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Chevrolet Bolt. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to conduct this act accurately dependant on the strategy you desire to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Chevrolet Bolt 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 Chevrolet Bolt 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.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Chevrolet Bolt through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is especially practical 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 operate 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 simple steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Chevrolet Bolt through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant on 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 procedure, we will detail them now:

    • Put your Chevrolet Bolt 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 replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Chevrolet Bolt following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more guides on the Chevrolet Bolt, go to our Chevrolet Bolt category.