Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out with time and as a result need to be replaced. You’re likely on this site 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 Opel Antara, we’ve made this document to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first step, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Opel Antara and in a second step, 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 Opel Antara is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the safety components of your Opel Antara. In reality, you are often 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 regular check-up. It is as a consequence crucial 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 Opel Antara, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple options 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 listening to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible indicator on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Opel Antara, you will recognize that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means 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 control as on the first procedure shown previously.

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

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Opel Antara

Now let’s go to the main step of this document, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Antara? Take note that this task is quite 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Opel Antara. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special document. However, here are the details of the actions to stick to in order to conduct this action efficiently depending on the strategy you wish to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Opel Antara 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 Opel Antara 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 works.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Antara through the wheel arch:

    This tactic is extremely practical when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and remove 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 simple steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Antara 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 right now:

    • Put your Opel Antara 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.
    • Take away your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Opel Antara following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you wish more tutorials on the Opel Antara, go to our Opel Antara category.