It doesn’t matter if for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always functional is imperative. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out with time and as a consequence need to be changed. You’re quite 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 Dacia Dokker, we’ve written this content to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first part, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Dacia Dokker and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to know if the front turn signal bulb on your Dacia Dokker is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t constantly have the possibility to check all the safety components of your Dacia Dokker. Indeed, you are nearly always in a hurry and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is therefore important to take the time to occasionally check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Dacia Dokker, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple methods to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change 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 control that they are working.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Dacia Dokker, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this suggests that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and check out which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first solution shown above.

You may have an additional bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our blog posts to help you to achieve this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Dacia Dokker

Now let’s go to the main part of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Dacia Dokker? Please note that this technique is quite easy, you will need 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 Dacia Dokker. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. Nevertheless, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to to be able to execute this action accurately depending on the approach you wish to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Dacia Dokker 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 Dacia Dokker 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.
  • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Dacia Dokker through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is specifically 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 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 change the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same basic steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Dacia Dokker through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending on the options the only simple access you will have to change 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 process, we will explain them right now:

    • Put your Dacia Dokker 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.
    • Take away your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Dacia Dokker following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Dacia Dokker, take a look at the Dacia Dokker category.