Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out with time and consequently need to be changed. You’re almost certainly here 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 Peugeot 308, we’ve written this content page to help you do it alone and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first step, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 308 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 Peugeot 308 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to verify all the safety components of your Peugeot 308. Indeed, you are most of the time in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a consequence fundamental to take the time to sometimes verify the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Peugeot 308, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple techniques to control if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change it fairly 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 operational.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Peugeot 308, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and check out which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first technique shown earlier mentioned.

You may have an additional bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our blog posts to help you to carry out this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 308

Now let’s go to the most important step of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 308? Please be aware that this task is uncomplicated, you will have 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 Peugeot 308. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content page. However, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to to be able to conduct this action correctly dependant on the strategy you want to choose.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 308 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 308 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 operates.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 308 through the wheel arch:

    This technique 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 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 steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 308 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 technique, we will detail them right now:

    • Put your Peugeot 308 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 cautious with the plastic staples which can be delicate.
    • Take away your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Peugeot 308 following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you want more tutorials on the Peugeot 308, go to our Peugeot 308 category.