Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out in the future and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re most 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 Grande Punto, we’ve created this article to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Grande Punto and in a second step, 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 Grande Punto is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the opportunity to examine all the safety features of your Fiat Grande Punto. Indeed, you are often in a rush and tend to enter into your car, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a result essential to take the time to sometimes examine the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Fiat Grande Punto, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple ways to examine if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace 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 operational.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indication on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Fiat Grande Punto, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to examine and check out which one is burnt out by a visual examine as on the first technique 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 blog posts to help you to perform this replacement.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Grande Punto

Now let’s go to the most essential step of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Grande Punto? Please be aware that this operation is uncomplicated, you will have to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Grande Punto. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special article. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to perform this act correctly depending on the technique you desire to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Grande Punto 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 Grande Punto by the new one (ensure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the brand-new front turn signal bulb functions.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Grande Punto through the wheel arch:

    This tactic is specially practical 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 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 Fiat Grande Punto through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to 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 detail them now:

    • Put your Fiat Grande Punto 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 out your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Fiat Grande Punto following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you want more tutorials on the Fiat Grande Punto, go to our Fiat Grande Punto category.