It doesn’t matter if for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out with time and as a consequence need to be replaced. You’re almost certainly on this website because one of your front turn signals is burnt out and you’re questioning how to change the bulb of a front turn signal on your Toyota Aygo, we’ve created this content to help you do it alone and independently and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Aygo and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognize if the front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Aygo is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to examine all the safety equipments of your Toyota Aygo. Indeed, you are often in a hurry and tend to get into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is as a result essential to take the time to once in a while examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Toyota Aygo, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple options to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change it rather 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. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Toyota Aygo, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this suggests that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to examine and make sure which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first technique 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 consult our articles to help you to perform this substitution.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Aygo

Now let’s go to the most significant step of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Toyota Aygo? You should be aware that this operation is quite 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 Toyota Aygo. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. Nevertheless, here are the details of the steps to follow to be able to conduct this action accurately depending on the approach you wish to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Aygo 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 Toyota Aygo by the new one (ensure to examine if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and check that the new front turn signal bulb is effective.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Toyota Aygo through the wheel arch:

    This methodology 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 take away 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 guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Toyota Aygo 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 procedure, we will explain them right now:

    • Put your Toyota Aygo 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 vulnerable.
    • Take away your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Toyota Aygo following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more tutorials on the Toyota Aygo, go to our Toyota Aygo category.