It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always functional is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out over time and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re probably 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 Mazda CX 30, we’ve made this content to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first step, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Mazda CX 30 and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to find out if the front turn signal bulb on your Mazda CX 30 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t constantly have the opportunity to verify all the safety features of your Mazda CX 30. Indeed, you are in many cases in a hurry and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is therefore important to take the time to in some cases verify the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Mazda CX 30, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple ways to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it promptly:

  • 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 indication on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Mazda CX 30, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and examine which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first methodology shown earlier mentioned.

You may have an additional bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to read our blog posts to help you to carry out this replacing.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Mazda CX 30

Now let’s go to the main step of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mazda CX 30? You should be aware that this procedure 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Mazda CX 30. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. Nevertheless, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to to be able to carry out this action efficiently dependant on the solution you want to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Mazda CX 30 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 Mazda CX 30 by the new one (ensure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the brand-new front turn signal bulb works.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Mazda CX 30 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is specially useful when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take off 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 replace the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same basic steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Mazda CX 30 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 detail them right now:

    • Put your Mazda CX 30 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 away your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Mazda CX 30 following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Mazda CX 30, take a look at the Mazda CX 30 category.