Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always operational is extremely important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out over time and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re likely here 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 Ford F 150 , we’ve written this document to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first step, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Ford F 150  and in a second step, 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 Ford F 150  is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your automobile you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety features of your Ford F 150 . Indeed, you are frequently in a hurry and tend to get into your automobile, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is consequently 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 Ford F 150 , but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple options to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change 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 functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Ford F 150 , you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first process shown previously.

You may have an additional 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 complete this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Ford F 150 

Now let’s go to the main step of this document, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Ford F 150 ? You should be aware that this process is very simple, you will have 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 Ford F 150 . If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated document. However, here are the details of the guidelines to follow to be able to carry out this action efficiently depending on the technique you desire to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Ford F 150  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 Ford F 150  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 functions.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Ford F 150  through the wheel arch:

    This process 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 out 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 simple steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Ford F 150  through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to 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 describe them right now:

    • Put your Ford F 150  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 cautious with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Remove your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Ford F 150  following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To get more tips on the Ford F 150 , take a look at the Ford F 150  category.