Regardless it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your headlamp bulbs are in every case working is very important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing units that will predictably burn out with time and consequently need to be swapped out. You’re perhaps on this site because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re worried about how to change your Nissan Patrol 3’s license plate bulb, we’ve created this content to help you do it on your own and not have to go to your auto technician. Firstly, we will examine 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 Nissan Patrol 3.
How to change the license plate bulb on your Nissan Patrol 3 through the outside
This method is the least difficult of the two, in reality, for this one you will just require to take out 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 spend some time on in the second part of this content to explain the way.
So let’s begin with changing the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Nissan Patrol 3. Regardless it’s the front or the back of your motor vehicle the technique will be the same.
Here are a few simple guidelines to stick to to conduct this routine service:
- 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 purpose (generally on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Nissan Patrol 3
- Use your screwdriver or knife to remove the bulb from its place, if you are worried of destroying something, you can also do it with your fingers.
- Finally, put the new license plate light bulb
- Last stage, before reassembling, reconnect your battery and check the light to validate the success of the procedure.
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How to change the number plate bulb on your Nissan Patrol 3 without outside access
Second part of our item, change this license plate bulb on your Nissan Patrol 3 without external access. Most often you will be able to access it, but some series (often at the rear does not allow this access).
How to change the front license plate bulb on my Nissan Patrol 3
To change the one on the front plate, nothing could be simpler, you will have to put yourself under the motor vehicle (preferably 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, generally held by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both at the same time, 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 (be attentive not to put in too much pressure otherwise you will break the plastic cover), and you will just have to take out the burnt-out license plate bulb and swap it with the new , then test out and reassemble the whole thing.
How to change the rear license plate bulb on my Nissan Patrol 3
Finally last option, you must change the bulb on the backplate of your Nissan Patrol 3, but you cannot open the cover from the outside of your motor vehicle. In such a case, here is the approach to accomplish this task:
- Unplug the battery from your Nissan Patrol 3
- 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 delicately on all the frame of the trunk to remove it.
- Once located, 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
- Replace the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Nissan Patrol 3, check it and reassemble it, watching the clips on the trunk liner
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There you have it, you have learned the main solutions for changing license plate bulbs on your car, bear in mind that on some models the method may be a bit different but you should be able to accomplish it following the outline of this article content. 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 Nissan Patrol 3. If you desire to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Nissan Patrol 3 or the low beam bulbs on Nissan Patrol 3, don’t be reluctant to consult our content articles which demonstrate you the operation to follow.
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