It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out over time and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re perhaps in this article 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 Fiat Ducato, we’ve made this content to help you do it on your own and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first part, we will take a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Ducato and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognize if the front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Ducato is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your automobile you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety features of your Fiat Ducato. Indeed, you are most likely in a rush and tend to get into your automobile, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is as a consequence relevant 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 Fiat Ducato, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple ways to check 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 check that they are functional.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Fiat Ducato, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and check out which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first technique shown previously.

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

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Ducato

Now let’s go to the most important part of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Ducato? Please note that this task is really easy, 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 Fiat Ducato. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content. Nevertheless, here are the details of the guidelines to follow to be able to execute this action properly according to the technique you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Ducato 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 Ducato by the new one (make certain to verify 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 Fiat Ducato through the wheel arch:

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

    • Lift your car, and take out 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 change 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 Fiat Ducato through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 technique, we will point them now:

    • Put your Fiat Ducato 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 breakable.
    • Take out your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Fiat Ducato following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you wish more tutorials on the Fiat Ducato, go to our Fiat Ducato category.