Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always operational is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out with time and as a result need to be replaced. You’re likely 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 4008, we’ve written and published this content to help you do it alone and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 4008 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 Peugeot 4008 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your automobile you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety features of your Peugeot 4008. In reality, you are most of the time in a hurry and tend to enter into your automobile, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is as a consequence relevant 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 4008, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple options to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace 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 check that they are operational.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible sign on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Peugeot 4008, you will recognize that the time between each “click” is much closer, this denotes that you will have to swap 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 check as on the first solution shown earlier mentioned.

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 articles to help you to do this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 4008

Now let’s go to the most important step of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 4008? Take note that this operation is uncomplicated, you will require 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 4008. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content. However, here are the details of the actions to follow to be able to accomplish this action properly dependant on the solution you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 4008 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 4008 by the new one (make sure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb is effective.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 4008 through the wheel arch:

    This technique is specially valuable when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take off 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 replace 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 Peugeot 4008 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 describe them right now:

    • Put your Peugeot 4008 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 delicate.
    • Take away your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Peugeot 4008 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more guides on the Peugeot 4008, go to our Peugeot 4008 category.