It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out after a while and as a result need to be replaced. You’re probably on the 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 Citroen C4 Cactus, we’ve made this document to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first step, we will take a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C4 Cactus and in a second step, 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 C4 Cactus is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your automobile you don’t constantly have the opportunity to examine all the safety equipments of your Citroen C4 Cactus. Indeed, you are most of the time in a rush and tend to enter into your automobile, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is consequently relevant to take the time to sometimes examine the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Citroen C4 Cactus, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple solutions to examine 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 examine that they are working.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Citroen C4 Cactus, you will identify that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that you will have to change 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 examine as on the first solution shown earlier mentioned.

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

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C4 Cactus

Now let’s go to the most important step of this document, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C4 Cactus? Please note that this process 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 C4 Cactus. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated document. On the other hand, here are the details of the actions to stick to to be able to conduct this action properly according to the approach you desire to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C4 Cactus 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 C4 Cactus by the new one (ensure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb functions.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C4 Cactus through the wheel arch:

    This solution 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 out 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 C4 Cactus 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 explain them right now:

    • Put your Citroen C4 Cactus 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 vulnerable.
    • Take out your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Citroen C4 Cactus following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more guides on the Citroen C4 Cactus, go to our Citroen C4 Cactus category.