Whether for your own security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is necessary. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out as time passes and as a result need to be changed. You’re probably on the website 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 Peugeot 2008, we’ve written this content to help you do it alone and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first part, we will examine the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 2008 and in a second part, 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 Peugeot 2008 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t constantly have the possibility to verify all the security equipments of your Peugeot 2008. In fact, you are often in a hurry and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down instantly 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 verify the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Peugeot 2008, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple techniques to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 functioning.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible signal on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Peugeot 2008, you will find out 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 verify and check which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first technique shown previously.

You may have another bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to read our articles to help you to complete this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 2008

Now let’s go to the most significant part of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 2008? You should be aware that this task is very simple, 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 change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 2008. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content. However, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to to be able to carry out this action accurately depending on the approach you desire to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 2008 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 Peugeot 2008 by the new one (ensure to verify 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 Peugeot 2008 through the wheel arch:

    This tactic is particularly practical 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 swap 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 Peugeot 2008 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 procedure, we will point them right now:

    • Put your Peugeot 2008 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 delicate.
    • Take off your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Peugeot 2008 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    In the event that you have any further questions about the Peugeot 2008, do not hesitate to consult our Peugeot 2008 category.