Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always operational is imperative. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out with time and as a consequence need to be replaced. You’re probably here 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 Citroen C1, we’ve created this content to help you do it alone and independently 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 Citroen C1 and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognise if the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C1 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety equipments of your Citroen C1. Indeed, you are often times in a rush and tend to get into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is therefore fundamental to take the time to in some cases check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Citroen C1, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple solutions to verify 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 verify that they are functioning.
  • By listening 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 Citroen C1, you will perceive that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first procedure shown previously.

You may have an additional bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to read our blog posts to help you to carry out this substitution.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C1

Now let’s go to the most significant part of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C1? Please note that this operation is really easy, 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C1. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. On the other hand, here are the details of the guidelines to follow to be able to conduct this act properly according to the approach you want to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C1 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 Citroen C1 by the new one (make certain to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb operates.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C1 through the wheel arch:

    This technique is extremely effective 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 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 Citroen C1 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 procedure, we will point them right now:

    • Put your Citroen C1 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 delicate.
    • Take out your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Citroen C1 following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If perhaps you have any further questions about the Citroen C1, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen C1 category.