Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, being certain your turn signal bulbs are always functional is necessary. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out after some time and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re most likely on this website 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 Transporter, we’ve made this content page to help you do it by yourself 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 Transporter and in a second section, 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 Transporter is burnt out or needs to be replaced?

When you drive your automobile you don’t always have the opportunity to verify all the safety features of your Volkswagen Transporter. In fact, you are often in a hurry and tend to get into your automobile, make your trip and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a consequence important to take the time to in some cases verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a front turn signal on your Volkswagen Transporter, but that you didn’t realize it. Here are the two simple solutions to verify 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 verify that they are functioning.
  • By hearing to the sound of your blinkers. In fact, there is an audible sign on each car that signals you of a front turn indicator bulb burnt out on your Volkswagen Transporter, you will recognize that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this denotes 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 verify as on the first process 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 content articles to help you to do this replacement.

Changing the front turn signal bulb on your Volkswagen Transporter

Now let’s go to the most significant section of this content page, how to change the front turn signal bulb of your Volkswagen Transporter? You should be aware that this procedure 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 Transporter. If it is a bulb on your rear turn signal, see our special content page. However, here are the details of the steps to stick to to be able to execute this act efficiently according to the method you want to adopt.

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

    This tactic is specially 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 out 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 guidelines as on the part previously seen.

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

    On some years or finishes, depending 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 process, we will describe them now:

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

    If you need more guides on the Volkswagen Transporter, go to our Volkswagen Transporter category.