It doesn’t matter if it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness tests or to avoid a fine, ensuring your headlamp bulbs are in every case functional is very important. In fact, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will obviously burn out after some time and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re perhaps in this article because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change your Audi Sq5’s license plate bulb, we’ve written this content page to help you do it on your own and not have to go to your technician. Firstly, we will examine changing the license plate bulb from the outside, secondly, how to replace the license plate bulb without outside access, and thirdly, how to replace the rear license plate bulb of your Audi Sq5.
How to swap the license plate bulb on your Audi Sq5 coming from the outside
This tactic is the least difficult of the two, in reality, for this one you will simply have to take away the protective covers of the bulbs. Unfortunately on some years or packages of car these covers do not open from the outside and if this is the case we will spend a moment on in the second section of this article to describe the way.
So let’s begin with changing the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Audi Sq5. It doesn’t matter if it’s the front or the back of your motor vehicle the operation will be similar.
Here are a few simple guidelines to follow to carry out this service:
- With the engine off, disconnect the battery terminals from your car
- Position yourself in front of your license plate and use a flat screwdriver or knife to insert the flat part into the notch assigned for this intent (in most cases on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Audi Sq5
- Use your screwdriver or knife to remove the bulb from its location, in the event that you are afraid of destroying something, you can also do it with your fingers.
- Finally, position the new license plate light bulb
- Last stage, before reassembling, reconnect your battery and check the light to validate the successfulness of the operation.
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How to change the number plate bulb on your Audi Sq5 without outside access
Second section of our document, swap this license plate bulb on your Audi Sq5 without external access. In most cases you will be able to access it, nevertheless some series (often at the rear does not allow this access).
How to swap the front license plate bulb on my Audi Sq5
To swap the one on the front plate, nothing could be less difficult, you will have to position yourself under the motor vehicle (ideally placed on candles to give you some space), and, going through the rear of the bumper, you will have to unclip the license plate bulb block, in most cases kept by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both simultaneously, then right after you have your license plate bulb block in hand, Take away the plastic that acts as a seal, then with a thin screwdriver, on one side you will find a small notch, use a lever to open the plastic cover (take care not to apply too much pressure otherwise you will break the plastic cover), and you will just have to take away the burnt-out license plate bulb and swap it with the new , then check and reassemble the whole thing.
How to swap the rear license plate bulb on my Audi Sq5
Finally last solution, you must swap the bulb on the backplate of your Audi Sq5, but you simply cannot open the cover from the outside of your motor vehicle. In this case, here is the technique to perform this task:
- Unplug the battery from your Audi Sq5
- Locate the spot of your light bulbs from the outside.
- From the inside of the trunk, you have to remove the lining of the trunk, kept by clips, you will have to lever delicately on all the frame of the trunk to remove it.
- Once found, before removing the bulb holders, disconnect the holders for easier access.
- Using a screwdriver, lever the two plastic parts to remove the bulb holder
- Replace the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Audi Sq5, check it and reassemble it, watching the clips on the trunk liner
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There you have it, you have found out the main tactics for changing license plate bulbs on your car, be aware that on some models the methodology may be a bit different but you should be able to accomplish it following the outline of this article. If you can’t do it, don’t be reluctant to go to your workshop it would be a shame to break a part of your Audi Sq5. If you need to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Audi Sq5 or the low beam bulbs on Audi Sq5, don’t be reluctant to browse our articles which describe you the operation to follow.
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