It doesn’t matter if for your own security, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will undoubtedly burn out after awhile and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly here 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 Volkswagen Golf 8, we’ve created this content page to help you do it without help and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first step, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Golf 8 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 Volkswagen Golf 8 is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your car you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the security equipments of your Volkswagen Golf 8. Indeed, you are mostly in a hurry and tend to enter into your car, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an periodic check-up. It is as a consequence crucial 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 Volkswagen Golf 8, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple techniques to examine if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 examine that they are operational.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible indication on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Volkswagen Golf 8, you will find out that the time between each “click” is much closer, this denotes that you will have to change the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual examine as on the first process shown above.

You may have an additional bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to read our blog posts to help you to complete this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Golf 8

Now let’s go to the most significant step of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Golf 8? Please note that this operation is really easy, you will have to access, from the inside of your bonnet, through the wheel arch, or simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Golf 8. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our dedicated content page. However, here are the details of the steps to follow in order to accomplish this act properly depending on the approach you desire to adopt.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Golf 8 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 Volkswagen Golf 8 by the new one (be sure to check if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the new front turn signal bulb operates.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Golf 8 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is particularly practical 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 work on.
    • Take out your wheel arch with a torx bit.
    • Go to your headlamp block and swap the front turn signal bulb on your car following the same procedures as on the part previously seen.

    Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Golf 8 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, dependant on the options the only simple access you will have to swap 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 right now:

    • Put your Volkswagen Golf 8 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. Beware with the plastic staples which can be fragile.
    • Take off your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Volkswagen Golf 8 following the steps seen in the parts seen above.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To get more tips on the Volkswagen Golf 8, take a look at the Volkswagen Golf 8 category.