Regardless for your personal security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out with time and therefore need to be replaced. You’re most likely in this article 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 C 3, we’ve created this article to help you do it without help and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe C 3 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 Mercedes Classe C 3 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to examine all the security equipments of your Mercedes Classe C 3. Indeed, you are often in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is therefore crucial to take the time to sometimes examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Mercedes Classe C 3, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple techniques to control 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 control that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indication on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Mercedes Classe C 3, you will identify 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 examine and check which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first solution shown earlier mentioned.

You may have an additional bulb to swap, 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.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe C 3

Now let’s go to the most significant step of this article, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe C 3? You should be aware that this process is quite simple, you will have to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or through your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe C 3. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special article. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow to be able to accomplish this act accurately according to the technique you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Mercedes Classe C 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 C 3 by the new one (be sure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb functions.

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

    This process is in particular valuable when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take out 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 steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mercedes Classe C 3 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 point them now:

    • Put your Mercedes Classe C 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 careful with the plastic staples which can be delicate.
    • Take away your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Mercedes Classe C 3 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

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