Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is very important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out after some time and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re most certainly in this article 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, we’ve written and published this article to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first part, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic 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 Renault Trafic is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety equipments of your Renault Trafic. In fact, you are in general 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 occasional check-up. It is as a consequence important to take the time to sometimes verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Renault Trafic, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple techniques to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it promptly:

  • 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 working.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible indication on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Renault Trafic, you will recognize that the time between each “click” is much closer, this denotes that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and examine which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first solution shown above.

You may have an additional bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to read our content articles to help you to perform this substitution.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic

Now let’s go to the main part of this article, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Trafic? Take note that this process is very 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Renault Trafic. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated article. However, here are the details of the actions to follow in order to conduct this action correctly dependant on the technique you desire to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Renault Trafic 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 by the new one (make sure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the brand-new front turn signal bulb is effective.

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

    This technique is extremely effective when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

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

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Trafic 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 technique, we will point them right now:

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

    If you need more guides on the Renault Trafic, go to our Renault Trafic category.