Regardless whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functional is very important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out over time and as a result need to be changed. You’re probably 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 Zoe, we’ve written and published this content to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first part, we will examine controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Renault Zoe 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 Zoe is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t constantly have the possibility to examine all the safety components of your Renault Zoe. In fact, you are often times in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is as a result fundamental 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 Zoe, but that you didn’t notice it. Here are the two simple solutions to examine if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change 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 examine that they are operational.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Renault Zoe, you will recognise 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 examine and check which one is burnt out by a visual examine as on the first methodology shown above.

You may have an additional bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our content articles to help you to complete this replacing.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Renault Zoe

Now let’s go to the main part of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Renault Zoe? You should be aware that this operation is fairly simple, you will have 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 Zoe. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content. Nevertheless, here are the details of the actions to stick to to be able to conduct this act accurately according to the method you want to adopt.

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

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

    • Lift your car, and take off 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 change the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same steps as on the part previously seen.

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

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 point them now:

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

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