Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functional is imperative. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out over the years and as a result need to be changed. You’re quite likely on the 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 Peugeot 806, we’ve written and published this document to help you do it alone and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first part, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 806 and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to discover if the front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 806 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the possibility to examine all the safety features of your Peugeot 806. In fact, you are frequently in a hurry and tend to enter into your car, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a result crucial to take the time to sometimes examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Peugeot 806, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple techniques to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it 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 functional.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible signal on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Peugeot 806, you will perceive that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to examine and check which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first methodology shown earlier mentioned.

You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to read our blog posts to help you to perform this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 806

Now let’s go to the most significant part of this document, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 806? Please be aware that this technique is quite easy, 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 806. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated document. However, here are the details of the simple steps to stick to to be able to carry out this act accurately depending on the method you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Peugeot 806 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 806 by the new one (be sure to examine 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 806 through the wheel arch:

    This approach 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 out 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 simple steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Peugeot 806 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 technique, we will explain them right now:

    • Put your Peugeot 806 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 breakable.
    • Take away your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Peugeot 806 following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you wish more guides on the Peugeot 806, go to our Peugeot 806 category.