Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being certain your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is imperative. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out after some time and consequently need to be swapped out. You’re likely 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 Fiat 500 L, we’ve written and published this article content to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first part, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Fiat 500 L and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to discover if the front turn signal bulb on your Fiat 500 L is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety components of your Fiat 500 L. In reality, you are most of the time in a rush and tend to enter into your car, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is therefore essential 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 Fiat 500 L, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple solutions to check 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 check that they are operational.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible indication on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Fiat 500 L, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to change 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 check as on the first process shown previously.

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 conduct this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Fiat 500 L

Now let’s go to the main part of this article content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat 500 L? Please be aware that this process is very simple, 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 Fiat 500 L. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated article content. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow to be able to conduct this act accurately depending on the method you wish to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Fiat 500 L 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 Fiat 500 L by the new one (be sure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb works.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat 500 L through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is especially effective when you don’t have enough space in the hood 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 Fiat 500 L 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 right now:

    • Put your Fiat 500 L 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. Be mindful with the plastic staples which can be vulnerable.
    • Take off your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Fiat 500 L following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Fiat 500 L, take a look at the Fiat 500 L category.