Whether it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, making sure your headlamp bulbs are all the time functioning is fundamental. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out in the future and consequently need to be swapped out. You’re most likely on this website because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change your Infiniti Q50’s license plate bulb, we’ve made this document to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your mechanic. Firstly, we will look at changing the license plate bulb from the outside, secondly, how to change the license plate bulb without outside access, and thirdly, how to change the rear license plate bulb of your Infiniti Q50.
How to swap the license plate bulb on your Infiniti Q50 coming from the outside
This method is the least difficult of the two, in reality, for this one you will just have to take off 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 situation we will dedicate a moment on in the second part of this article content to teach you the method.
So let’s begin with swapping the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Infiniti Q50. Whether it’s the front or the back of your vehicle the procedure will be identical.
Here are a few simple steps to stick to to conduct this maintenance tasks:
- With the engine turned off, unplug the battery terminals from your car
- Face your license plate and use a flat screwdriver or knife to place the flat part into the notch supplied for this intent (usually on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Infiniti Q50
- Use your screwdriver or knife to eject the bulb from its location, if you are scared of damaging a thing, you can as well do it with your fingers.
- Finally, position the new license plate light bulb
- Last step, before reassembling, reconnect your battery and test the light to validate the successfulness of the procedure.
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How to change the number plate bulb on your Infiniti Q50 without outside access
Second part of our content, replace this license plate bulb on your Infiniti Q50 without external access. In most cases you will be able to access it, however some series (often at the rear does not allow this access).
How to swap the front license plate bulb on my Infiniti Q50
To swap the one on the front plate, nothing could be easier, you will have to position yourself under the vehicle (ideally positioned 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, usually held by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both simultaneously, then now that you have your license plate bulb block in hand, Take off 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 (be attentive not to apply too much force otherwise you will break the plastic cover), and you will only have to take off the burnt-out license plate bulb and change it with the new , then test and reassemble the whole thing.
How to swap the rear license plate bulb on my Infiniti Q50
Finally last option, you must swap the bulb on the backplate of your Infiniti Q50, but you cannot open the cover from the outside of your vehicle. In such a case, here is the solution to conduct this operation:
- Unplug the battery from your Infiniti Q50
- Locate the location of your light bulbs from the outside.
- From the inside of the trunk, you have to remove the lining of the trunk, held by clips, you will have to lever softly on all the frame of the trunk to remove it.
- Once established, before removing the bulb holders, unplug the holders for less complicated access.
- Using a screwdriver, lever the two plastic parts to remove the bulb holder
- Change the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Infiniti Q50, test it and reassemble it, watching the clips on the trunk liner
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There you have it, you have discovered the main methods for swapping license plate bulbs on your car, take notice that on some models the methodology may be a bit different but you should be able to do it following the outline of this article. If you can’t do it, don’t hesitate to go to your workshop it would be a shame to break a part of your Infiniti Q50. If you desire to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Infiniti Q50 or the low beam bulbs on Infiniti Q50, don’t hesitate to read our articles which demonstrate you the procedure to follow.
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