Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always operational is extremely important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out after awhile and therefore need to be changed. You’re probably 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 Mercedes Classe A 3, we’ve created this content to help you do it alone and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first part, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe A 3 and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to know if the front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe A 3 is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the safety features of your Mercedes Classe A 3. In fact, you are frequently in a hurry and tend to get into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down immediately 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 Mercedes Classe A 3, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple techniques to examine 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 examine that they are functioning.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible indicator on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Mercedes Classe A 3, 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 examine as on the first solution shown above.

You may have an additional bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to browse our content articles to help you to conduct this replacing.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe A 3

Now let’s go to the main part of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe A 3? You should be aware that this operation is really easy, you will need 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 Mercedes Classe A 3. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. However, here are the details of the guidelines to follow in order to execute this act efficiently according to the approach you desire to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe A 3 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 Classe A 3 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 operates.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe A 3 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is extremely effective 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 replace the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe A 3 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, based on 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 procedure, we will point them now:

    • Put your Mercedes Classe A 3 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 mindful with the plastic staples which can be vulnerable.
    • Remove your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Mercedes Classe A 3 following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    Whenever you have any further questions about the Mercedes Classe A 3, do not hesitate to consult our Mercedes Classe A 3 category.