Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always functional is necessary. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out in the future and as a consequence need to be changed. You’re quite likely here 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 Vivaro, we’ve made this document to help you do it on your own and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first step, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Opel Vivaro and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognize if the front turn signal bulb on your Opel Vivaro is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t constantly have the possibility to examine all the safety features of your Opel Vivaro. In fact, you are nearly always in a rush and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is as a result essential to take the time to once in a while examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Opel Vivaro, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple techniques to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change it rather 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. In fact, there is an audible indicator on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Opel Vivaro, you will identify that the time between each “click” is much closer, this means that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to examine and check out which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first process shown above.

You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to browse our articles to help you to do this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Opel Vivaro

Now let’s go to the most significant step of this document, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Vivaro? Please note that this procedure is uncomplicated, 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 Vivaro. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special document. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to perform this action properly dependant on the method you want to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Opel Vivaro 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 Vivaro by the new one (make certain to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb operates.
  • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Vivaro through the wheel arch:

    This tactic is especially effective 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 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 simple steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Vivaro through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 right now:

    • Put your Opel Vivaro 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 out your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Opel Vivaro following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more tutorials on the Opel Vivaro, go to our Opel Vivaro category.