Regardless for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being sure your turn signal bulbs are always functioning is extremely important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out over the years and therefore need to be changed. You’re quite likely in this article 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 Touran, we’ve written and published this article to help you do it without hiring somebody and not have to go to your mechanic. In a first section, we will have a look at the checking a burnt-out front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Touran and in a second section, 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 Touran is burnt out or needs to be changed?

When you drive your vehicle you don’t always have the possibility to check all the safety features of your Volkswagen Touran. In fact, you are mostly in a rush and tend to enter into your vehicle, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is consequently important 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 Touran, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple solutions to check if a front turn signal is burnt out or if you need to replace it promptly:

  • 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. In fact, there is an audible signal on each car that informs you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Volkswagen Touran, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to swap the front turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first technique shown previously.

You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam or your position lights, don’t be reluctant to browse our blog posts to help you to carry out this substitution.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Touran

Now let’s go to the most important section of this article, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Touran? You should be aware that this operation is quite simple, 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 change the burnt out front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Touran. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our specific article. On the other hand, here are the details of the actions to follow in order to execute this act properly depending on the strategy you want to choose.

Replace front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Touran 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 Touran by the new one (make 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 Touran through the wheel arch:

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

    • Lift your car, and take out 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 replace 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 Touran through the bumper:

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

    • Put your Volkswagen Touran 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 away your headlight block and replace the front turn indicator bulb of your Volkswagen Touran following the steps seen in the parts seen previously.
    • Put the whole thing back together again.

    In the event that you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Touran, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Touran category.