Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is important. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out with time and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re probably 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 Renault Mascott, we’ve written this document to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first part, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Renault Mascott and in a second part, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognise if the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Mascott is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the opportunity to verify all the safety equipments of your Renault Mascott. In reality, you are most of the time in a rush and tend to get into your car, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is consequently 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 Renault Mascott, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple solutions to verify 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 verify that they are functioning.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible indication on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Renault Mascott, you will recognise that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and check which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first solution shown above.

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 replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Mascott

Now let’s go to the most significant part of this document, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Mascott? Please be aware that this task is really easy, you will have to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Renault Mascott. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special document. Nevertheless, here are the details of the steps to follow to be able to carry out this act correctly according to the solution you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Renault Mascott 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 Mascott by the new one (make certain to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb operates.
  • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Mascott through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is in particular 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 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 replace the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same basic steps as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Mascott through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 point them right now:

    • Put your Renault Mascott 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.
    • Take out your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Renault Mascott following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Renault Mascott, take a look at the Renault Mascott category.