It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being certain your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is imperative. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out with time and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly 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 Kia Sorento, we’ve written this content page to help you do it without help and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Kia Sorento 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 Kia Sorento is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the possibility to check all the safety equipments of your Kia Sorento. In fact, you are most likely in a hurry and tend to enter into your car, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a consequence important to take the time to once in a while check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Kia Sorento, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple options to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace 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 verify that they are functional.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible indication on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Kia Sorento, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and check which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first methodology shown previously.

You may have an additional bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to read our content articles to help you to carry out this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Kia Sorento

Now let’s go to the most important step of this content page, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Kia Sorento? Please be aware that this task is really easy, 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Kia Sorento. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content page. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to stick to in order to execute this act properly dependant on the method you want to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Kia Sorento 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 Kia Sorento by the new one (be sure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb works.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Kia Sorento through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is extremely 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 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 Kia Sorento 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 technique, we will explain them right now:

    • Put your Kia Sorento 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 vulnerable.
    • Remove your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Kia Sorento following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you wish more guides on the Kia Sorento, go to our Kia Sorento category.