Regardless for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always working is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out after some time and therefore need to be changed. You’re probably on this 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 309, we’ve written this article to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first part, we will look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 309 and in a second part, 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 Peugeot 309 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the opportunity to check all the safety components of your Peugeot 309. In reality, you are in many cases in a rush and tend to enter into your car, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is consequently fundamental to take the time to once in a while check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Peugeot 309, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple methods 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 reality, there is an audible signal on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Peugeot 309, you will identify 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 verify which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first solution shown above.

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

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 309

Now let’s go to the most important part of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 309? Please note that this process 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 309. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated article. However, here are the details of the actions to follow to be able to accomplish this action properly dependant on the technique you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 309 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 309 by the new one (ensure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb works.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 309 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is specifically 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 away 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.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 309 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 point them now:

    • Put your Peugeot 309 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. Beware with the plastic staples which can be breakable.
    • Take out your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Peugeot 309 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Peugeot 309, do not hesitate to consult our Peugeot 309 category.