It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is imperative. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out over time and as a consequence need to be replaced. You’re perhaps on this site 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 Renault Trafic 2, we’ve created this document to help you do it alone and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first section, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic 2 and in a second section, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to know if the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic 2 is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to examine all the safety features of your Renault Trafic 2. In fact, you are in general in a hurry and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is therefore essential to take the time to in some cases examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Renault Trafic 2, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple methods to examine if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change 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 examine that they are functional.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Renault Trafic 2, you will notice 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 verify which one is burnt out by a visual examine as on the first process shown earlier mentioned.

You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our blog posts to help you to conduct this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic 2

Now let’s go to the most important section of this document, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Trafic 2? Please note that this process 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Renault Trafic 2. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special document. However, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to in order to accomplish this action accurately depending on the solution you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic 2 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 Trafic 2 by the new one (make certain to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb functions.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Trafic 2 through the wheel arch:

    This methodology is in particular useful when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take off 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 change 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 Trafic 2 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, based on the options the only simple access you will have to change 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 Renault Trafic 2 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 delicate.
    • Take away your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Renault Trafic 2 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Renault Trafic 2, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Trafic 2 category.