Regardless for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always functional is very important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out after a while and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re probably on this site 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 Scenic, we’ve written this content page to help you do it on your own and not have to go to your technician. In a first section, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Renault Scenic 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 Scenic is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to examine all the safety equipments of your Renault Scenic. In fact, you are mostly in a rush and tend to enter into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a consequence crucial to take the time to sometimes examine the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Renault Scenic, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple techniques to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 working.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Renault Scenic, you will recognise 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 examine and check out which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first procedure shown previously.

You may have another bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to consult our blog posts to help you to complete this replacing.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Scenic

Now let’s go to the main section of this content page, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Scenic? You should be aware that this operation is very simple, you will need to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or through your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Renault Scenic. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content page. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to stick to to be able to conduct this act properly depending on the method you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Renault Scenic 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 Scenic by the new one (make sure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb operates.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Scenic 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 swap the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same steps as on the part previously seen.

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

    On some years or finishes, depending on the options the only simple access you will have to swap 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 now:

    • Put your Renault Scenic 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 mindful with the plastic staples which can be fragile.
    • Remove your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Renault Scenic following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

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