Regardless for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out after awhile and therefore need to be replaced. You’re perhaps here 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 C6, we’ve made this content page to help you do it alone and independently and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will take a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C6 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 C6 is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety features of your Citroen C6. In fact, you are frequently in a hurry and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a consequence fundamental to take the time to in some cases verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Citroen C6, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple methods 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 operational.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible indicator on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Citroen C6, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this suggests 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 process shown previously.

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 articles to help you to perform this replacement.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C6

Now let’s go to the main step of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C6? You should be aware that this task is uncomplicated, you will require 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 C6. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content page. However, here are the details of the steps to follow in order to conduct this act efficiently dependant on the technique you want to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Citroen C6 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 C6 by the new one (ensure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb functions.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C6 through the wheel arch:

    This solution is specially valuable when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take away 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.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen C6 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 explain them now:

    • Put your Citroen C6 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 Citroen C6 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To get more tips on the Citroen C6, take a look at the Citroen C6 category.