It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functional is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out after awhile and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re most likely on this site 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 Mini Mini 3, we’ve made this article content to help you do it alone and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first step, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Mini Mini 3 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 Mini Mini 3 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the possibility to examine all the safety equipments of your Mini Mini 3. In reality, you are most likely in a rush and tend to get into your car, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a consequence essential to take the time to in some cases examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Mini Mini 3, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple solutions to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change 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 check that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible signal on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Mini Mini 3, you will recognize 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 examine and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first solution shown above.

You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to read our blog posts to help you to carry out this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Mini Mini 3

Now let’s go to the most essential step of this article content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Mini Mini 3? Please note that this procedure is quite easy, 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 Mini Mini 3. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific article content. However, here are the details of the guidelines to follow to be able to perform this action efficiently according to the approach you desire to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Mini Mini 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 Mini Mini 3 by the new one (ensure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb is effective.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Mini Mini 3 through the wheel arch:

    This approach is specifically practical when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet 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 change 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 Mini Mini 3 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, based on the options the only simple access you will have to change 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 Mini Mini 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 fragile.
    • Take off your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Mini Mini 3 following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you wish more tutorials on the Mini Mini 3, go to our Mini Mini 3 category.