Whether for your personal security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always working is necessary. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out in the future and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re perhaps on the website 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 Mercedes Benz GL Class, we’ve written and published this article to help you do it alone and independently and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Benz GL Class 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 Mercedes Benz GL Class is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to check all the security features of your Mercedes Benz GL Class. In fact, you are most likely in a hurry and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is therefore relevant to take the time to in some cases check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Mercedes Benz GL Class, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple solutions to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap it fairly 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 indicator on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Mercedes Benz GL Class, you will perceive 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 out which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first technique 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 read our content articles to help you to achieve this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Benz GL Class

Now let’s go to the most essential step of this article, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Benz GL Class? You should be aware that this technique is fairly simple, you will require 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 Mercedes Benz GL Class. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific article. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to follow to be able to conduct this act accurately depending on the technique you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Benz GL Class 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 Mercedes Benz GL Class by the new one (be sure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb works.
  • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Benz GL Class through the wheel arch:

    This technique is especially valuable 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 operate 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 Mercedes Benz GL Class 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 technique, we will describe them now:

    • Put your Mercedes Benz GL Class 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 breakable.
    • Take out your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Mercedes Benz GL Class following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you have any further questions about the Mercedes Benz GL Class, do not hesitate to consult our Mercedes Benz GL Class category.