It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always operational is important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out over the years and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly 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 Opel Mokka, we’ve written and published this content page to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first part, we will take a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Opel Mokka and in a second part, 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 Opel Mokka is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your automobile you don’t constantly have the possibility to verify all the safety components of your Opel Mokka. Indeed, you are in many cases in a rush and tend to enter into your automobile, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a result fundamental to take the time to sometimes verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Opel Mokka, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple methods to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Opel Mokka, you will identify that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and verify which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first process shown above.

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

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Opel Mokka

Now let’s go to the most important part of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Mokka? You should be aware that this task is fairly simple, you will need 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 Opel Mokka. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content page. On the other hand, here are the details of the actions to follow to be able to carry out this action efficiently according to the method you wish to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Opel Mokka 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 Mokka by the new one (make sure to verify 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 Opel Mokka through the wheel arch:

    This tactic is particularly effective when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet 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 Opel Mokka 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 explain them right now:

    • Put your Opel Mokka 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 breakable.
    • Take out your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Opel Mokka following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you want more tutorials on the Opel Mokka, go to our Opel Mokka category.