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 operational is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out over time and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly on this site 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 Vauxkhall Moka, we’ve written this content to help you do it alone and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first part, we will have a look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Vauxkhall Moka and in a second part, 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 Vauxkhall Moka is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to verify all the safety components of your Vauxkhall Moka. Indeed, you are most likely in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is therefore crucial to take the time to once in a while verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Vauxkhall Moka, 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 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 working.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible sign on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Vauxkhall Moka, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to verify and check out which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first solution 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 do this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Vauxkhall Moka

Now let’s go to the most significant part of this content, how to replace the front turn signal bulb of your Vauxkhall Moka? Take note that this technique is quite easy, you will need to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and replace the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Vauxkhall Moka. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content. Nevertheless, here are the details of the guidelines to stick to to be able to accomplish this act correctly dependant on the technique you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Vauxkhall Moka 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 Vauxkhall Moka by the new one (ensure to verify 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 Vauxkhall Moka through the wheel arch:

    This methodology is specifically valuable when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet 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 guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Vauxkhall Moka 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 now:

    • Put your Vauxkhall Moka 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 out your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Vauxkhall Moka following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you need more guides on the Vauxkhall Moka, go to our Vauxkhall Moka category.