Regardless for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is important. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out in the future and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly 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 Tipo, we’ve made this document to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will examine controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Tipo and in a second step, 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 Fiat Tipo is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t constantly have the opportunity to check all the safety features of your Fiat Tipo. In reality, you are often times in a hurry and tend to get into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is therefore relevant to take the time to in some cases check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Fiat Tipo, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple techniques to examine if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 examine that they are working.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible sign on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Fiat Tipo, you will notice 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 which one is burnt out by a visual examine as on the first process shown earlier mentioned.

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

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Tipo

Now let’s go to the most essential step of this document, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Tipo? Take note that this task is really 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 Fiat Tipo. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific document. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow to be able to conduct this action properly according to the technique you want to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Fiat Tipo 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 Tipo 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 works.
  • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Tipo through the wheel arch:

    This solution 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 take away 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 basic steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Fiat Tipo 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 process, we will point them now:

    • Put your Fiat Tipo 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 careful with the plastic staples which can be fragile.
    • Take away your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Fiat Tipo following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more guides on the Fiat Tipo, go to our Fiat Tipo category.