Regardless for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your turn signal bulbs are always operational is important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out after some time and consequently need to be swapped out. You’re almost 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 Scirocco, we’ve written this article to help you do it all on your own and not have to go to your technician. In a first step, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Scirocco and in a second step, how to change the front turn signal bulb on your car..

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How to find out if the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Scirocco is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your motor vehicle you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the safety components of your Volkswagen Scirocco. Indeed, you are mostly in a rush and tend to get into your motor vehicle, make your journey and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an unexpected check-up. It is as a consequence important to take the time to occasionally check the state of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Volkswagen Scirocco, but that you didn’t detect it. Here are the two simple methods to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to swap 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 check that they are functioning.
  • By listening to the sound of your blinkers. Indeed, there is an audible sign on each car that alerts you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Volkswagen Scirocco, you will recognize 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 check and check which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first process 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 read our blog posts to help you to do this replacing.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Scirocco

Now let’s go to the most significant step of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Scirocco? Take note that this process is fairly simple, 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 change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Scirocco. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special article. On the other hand, here are the details of the simple steps to follow in order to accomplish this act correctly according to the method you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Scirocco 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 Scirocco by the new one (make sure to check 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 Volkswagen Scirocco through the wheel arch:

    This solution is in particular useful when you don’t have enough space in the hood to access the front turn signal on your car:

    • Lift your car, and remove 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 guidelines as on the part previously seen.

    Change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Scirocco 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 technique, we will describe them now:

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

    To discover more tips on the Volkswagen Scirocco, take a look at the Volkswagen Scirocco category.