Whether for your personal security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is necessary. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out after a while and therefore need to be replaced. You’re likely on this site 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 Ds5, we’ve created this content to help you do it without help and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first section, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Ds5 and in a second section, 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 Ds5 is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the security features of your Citroen Ds5. In fact, you are nearly always in a rush and tend to get into your car, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a result relevant to take the time to sometimes check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Citroen Ds5, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple ways to examine if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap it rather 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. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Citroen Ds5, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and examine which one is burnt out by a visual examine as on the first technique shown earlier mentioned.

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 content articles to help you to perform this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Ds5

Now let’s go to the most significant section of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen Ds5? Please note that this operation is quite 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 Ds5. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content. However, here are the details of the guidelines to follow to be able to perform this action efficiently according to the approach you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Citroen Ds5 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 Ds5 by the new one (make sure to check 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 Ds5 through the wheel arch:

    This approach is extremely 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 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 guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Citroen Ds5 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, based 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 describe them now:

    • Put your Citroen Ds5 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 fragile.
    • Take off your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Citroen Ds5 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 Ds5, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen Ds5 category.