Regardless for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always working is imperative. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out over time and as a result need to be changed. You’re quite likely on this website because one of your front turn signals is burnt out and you’re questioning how to change the bulb of a front turn signal on your Nissan Note, we’ve created this content to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first section, we will take a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Nissan Note and in a second section, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to discover if the front turn signal bulb on your Nissan Note is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your automobile you don’t constantly have the opportunity to check all the safety equipments of your Nissan Note. Indeed, you are mostly in a hurry and tend to get into your automobile, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is therefore crucial 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 Nissan Note, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple techniques to control 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 control that they are working.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Nissan Note, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much closer, this denotes that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and check which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first methodology shown above.

You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to consult our blog posts to help you to accomplish this replacing.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Nissan Note

Now let’s go to the main section of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Nissan Note? You should be aware that this task is quite easy, you will need 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 Nissan Note. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. On the other hand, here are the details of the steps to stick to in order to perform this action correctly according to the strategy you wish to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Nissan Note 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 Nissan Note by the new one (be sure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the brand-new front turn signal bulb is effective.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Nissan Note through the wheel arch:

    This approach is particularly useful when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take off 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 procedures as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Nissan Note through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to 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 technique, we will describe them right now:

    • Put your Nissan Note 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.
    • Remove your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Nissan Note following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you want more tutorials on the Nissan Note, go to our Nissan Note category.