Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always working is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out after a while and as a consequence need to be changed. You’re perhaps on this 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 Renault Grand Espace, we’ve made this article to help you do it alone and independently and not have to go to your auto mechanic. In a first section, we will examine controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Renault Grand Espace and in a second section, 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 Renault Grand Espace is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the safety equipments of your Renault Grand Espace. Indeed, you are most of the time in a hurry and tend to enter into your car, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is as a consequence relevant to take the time to once in a while check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Renault Grand Espace, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple solutions to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace 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 verify that they are functional.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Renault Grand Espace, you will perceive that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first solution shown earlier mentioned.

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

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Grand Espace

Now let’s go to the most essential section of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Grand Espace? Take note that this operation is quite simple, 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 Renault Grand Espace. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated article. Nevertheless, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to in order to perform this act correctly according to the technique you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Renault Grand Espace 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 Renault Grand Espace by the new one (make sure to check 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 Renault Grand Espace through the wheel arch:

    This solution is in particular effective when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and remove 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 procedures as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Grand Espace through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, according to 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 point them now:

    • Put your Renault Grand Espace 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 vulnerable.
    • Remove your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Renault Grand Espace following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you want more tutorials on the Renault Grand Espace, go to our Renault Grand Espace category.