Regardless for your own security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always operational is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out as time passes and consequently need to be swapped out. You’re most likely here 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 Corolla Verso, we’ve written and published this article to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Corolla Verso and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to know if the front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Corolla Verso is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the opportunity to verify all the security features of your Toyota Corolla Verso. Indeed, you are mostly in a rush and tend to get into your car, make your trip and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is therefore essential 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 Toyota Corolla Verso, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple solutions to verify if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to change it 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 verify that they are functioning.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible signal on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Toyota Corolla Verso, you will identify that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means 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 verify as on the first process shown previously.

You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to browse our content articles to help you to carry out this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Corolla Verso

Now let’s go to the most essential step of this article, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Toyota Corolla Verso? Please be aware that this operation is quite easy, 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 replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Toyota Corolla Verso. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated article. On the other hand, here are the details of the steps to follow in order to carry out this action properly according to the technique you want to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Toyota Corolla Verso 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 Corolla Verso 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 functions.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Toyota Corolla Verso through the wheel arch:

    This methodology 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 out 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 Corolla Verso through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, based 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 explain them now:

    • Put your Toyota Corolla Verso 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 mindful with the plastic staples which can be delicate.
    • Take away your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Toyota Corolla Verso following the steps seen in the parts seen earlier.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

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