It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, by ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out over the years and as a result need to be replaced. You’re quite likely 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 Suzuki Across, we’ve written this content page to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first step, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Suzuki Across and in a second step, 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 Suzuki Across is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety features of your Suzuki Across. In fact, you are mostly in a rush and tend to get into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is therefore relevant to take the time to once in a while check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Suzuki Across, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple methods to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change it fairly 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 check that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible indication on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Suzuki Across, you will perceive that the time between each “click” is much closer, this means that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first methodology shown earlier mentioned.

You may have an additional bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to consult our articles to help you to achieve this replacement.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Suzuki Across

Now let’s go to the most important step of this content page, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Suzuki Across? You should be aware that this procedure is quite 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 Suzuki Across. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content page. Nevertheless, here are the details of the simple steps to stick to to be able to execute this action properly dependant on the technique you desire to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Suzuki Across 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 Suzuki Across by the new one (be sure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb functions.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Suzuki Across through the wheel arch:

    This process is in particular 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 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 steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Suzuki Across through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant 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 procedure, we will explain them right now:

    • Put your Suzuki Across 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 fragile.
    • Take off your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Suzuki Across following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Suzuki Across, take a look at the Suzuki Across category.