Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are always operational is very important. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out after some time and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re perhaps 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 Volkswagen Passat , we’ve written this content to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your repair shop. In a first section, we will look at controling a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Passat and in a second section, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to recognise if the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Passat is burnt out or needs to be swapped out?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to verify all the safety equipments of your Volkswagen Passat . In reality, you are nearly always in a hurry and tend to get into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is therefore essential to take the time to in some cases verify the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Volkswagen Passat , but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple ways to control 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 control that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In reality, there is an audible sign on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Volkswagen Passat , 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 verify and verify which one is burnt out by a visual control as on the first procedure shown previously.

You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t hesitate to consult our blog posts to help you to complete this replacing.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Passat

Now let’s go to the main section of this content, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Passat ? You should be aware that this operation is quite 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 Passat . If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content. However, here are the details of the actions to follow in order to execute this act accurately depending on the method you desire to adopt.

Change front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Passat 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 Passat by the new one (be sure to verify if it’s an orange or transparent bulb).
  • Reassemble and test that the brand-new front turn signal bulb works.

    • Change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Passat through the wheel arch:

    This technique is extremely practical 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 basic steps as on the part previously seen.

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

    • Put your Volkswagen Passat 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 delicate.
    • Take out your headlight block and change the front turn indicator bulb of your Volkswagen Passat following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    To find more tips on the Volkswagen Passat , take a look at the Volkswagen Passat category.