Regardless whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out after a while and as a result need to be replaced. You’re almost certainly 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 Citroen C3 Aircross, we’ve made this document to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first step, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C3 Aircross 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 Citroen C3 Aircross is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to examine all the safety equipments of your Citroen C3 Aircross. In fact, you are nearly always in a hurry and tend to get into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a consequence fundamental to take the time to in some cases examine the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Citroen C3 Aircross, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple solutions to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it fairly 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 hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Citroen C3 Aircross, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to examine and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first process shown above.

You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our content articles to help you to do this replacing.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C3 Aircross

Now let’s go to the main step of this document, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C3 Aircross? Please note that this procedure is quite simple, you will need 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 Citroen C3 Aircross. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated document. Nevertheless, here are the details of the actions to follow to be able to carry out this act efficiently dependant on the solution you desire to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C3 Aircross 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 C3 Aircross by the new one (make sure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb operates.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C3 Aircross through the wheel arch:

    This technique is in particular 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 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 steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C3 Aircross through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to 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 explain them right now:

    • Put your Citroen C3 Aircross 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.
    • Remove your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Citroen C3 Aircross following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you have any further questions about the Citroen C3 Aircross, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen C3 Aircross category.