Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always working is imperative. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out as time passes and therefore need to be changed. You’re quite likely 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 Classe B 2, we’ve written and published this document to help you do it without help 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 Mercedes Classe B 2 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 Classe B 2 is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety features of your Mercedes Classe B 2. Indeed, you are most likely in a rush and tend to enter into your car, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is as a consequence fundamental to take the time to occasionally check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Mercedes Classe B 2, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple options 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 hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Mercedes Classe B 2, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much closer, this denotes that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first technique shown above.

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

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe B 2

Now let’s go to the most significant step of this document, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe B 2? Please note that this operation is really easy, you will require 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 B 2. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated document. However, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to to be able to conduct this act accurately according to the method you wish to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe B 2 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 B 2 by the new one (ensure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the brand-new front turn signal bulb functions.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe B 2 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is particularly practical when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and remove 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 swap the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe B 2 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 procedure, we will point them right now:

    • Put your Mercedes Classe B 2 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 delicate.
    • Take off your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Mercedes Classe B 2 following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Mercedes Classe B 2, do not hesitate to consult our Mercedes Classe B 2 category.