Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always working is extremely important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out over time and as a result need to be changed. You’re most certainly in this article 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 Polo 5, we’ve made this content page to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your technician. In a first section, we will look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 5 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 Polo 5 is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the safety components of your Volkswagen Polo 5. In fact, you are most likely in a hurry and tend to get into your motor vehicle, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an regular check-up. It is therefore crucial to take the time to sometimes check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Volkswagen Polo 5, but that you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two simple options to verify 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 verify that they are operational.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that warns you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Volkswagen Polo 5, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this suggests that you will have to replace the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and check out which one is burnt out by a visual verify as on the first solution shown previously.

You may have an additional bulb to swap, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our content articles to help you to conduct this replacement.

Replacing the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 5

Now let’s go to the most significant section of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Polo 5? 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 simply by your bumper to your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Polo 5. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific content page. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to stick to to be able to carry out this act properly according to the method you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 5 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 Polo 5 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 is effective.

    • Replace the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Polo 5 through the wheel arch:

    This procedure is extremely useful when you don’t have enough space in the bonnet to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and take away 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.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Polo 5 through the bumper:

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 explain them now:

    • Put your Volkswagen Polo 5 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 off your headlight block and swap the front turn indicator bulb of your Volkswagen Polo 5 following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    If you want more guides on the Volkswagen Polo 5, go to our Volkswagen Polo 5 category.