Regardless whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always operational is extremely important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out over the years and consequently need to be changed. You’re likely 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 Tesla Model 3, we’ve created this content to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your auto technician. In a first step, we will look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Tesla Model 3 and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to find out if the front turn signal bulb on your Tesla Model 3 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your automobile you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety features of your Tesla Model 3. Indeed, you are often times in a hurry and tend to get into your automobile, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is consequently fundamental to take the time to in some cases check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Tesla Model 3, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple techniques to control 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 control that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Tesla Model 3, 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 check out which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first solution shown previously.

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

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Tesla Model 3

Now let’s go to the most essential step of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Tesla Model 3? You should be aware that this task is really easy, 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 change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Tesla Model 3. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content. However, here are the details of the simple steps to follow to be able to accomplish this action correctly depending on the method you desire to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Tesla Model 3 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 Tesla Model 3 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 works.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Tesla Model 3 through the wheel arch:

    This solution is specially effective 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 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 simple steps as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Tesla Model 3 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 process, we will describe them now:

    • Put your Tesla Model 3 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 off your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Tesla Model 3 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    Whenever you have any additional questions about the Tesla Model 3, do not hesitate to consult our Tesla Model 3 category.