It doesn’t matter if for your personal security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is imperative. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out over time and consequently need to be swapped out. You’re most 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 Opel Zafira 3, we’ve written and published this article to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Opel Zafira 3 and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to find out if the front turn signal bulb on your Opel Zafira 3 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t constantly have the possibility to check all the security equipments of your Opel Zafira 3. In reality, you are in many cases in a hurry and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is therefore important to take the time to in some cases check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Opel Zafira 3, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple options to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it promptly:

  • 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 verify that they are working.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible signal on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Opel Zafira 3, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first process shown previously.

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

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Opel Zafira 3

Now let’s go to the most important step of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Zafira 3? Please be aware that this technique is quite simple, you will have to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Opel Zafira 3. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special article. On the other hand, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to in order to carry out this action accurately dependant on the approach you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Opel Zafira 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 Opel Zafira 3 by the new one (make sure to check 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 Zafira 3 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is extremely 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 guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Opel Zafira 3 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 process, we will explain them now:

    • Put your Opel Zafira 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 mindful with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Take away your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Opel Zafira 3 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more guides on the Opel Zafira 3, go to our Opel Zafira 3 category.