Whether it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring your headlamp bulbs are constantly working is necessary. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out in the future and consequently need to be replaced. You’re almost certainly here because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re worried about how to change your Peugeot 108’s license plate bulb, we’ve written and published this article content to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your auto mechanic. 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 Peugeot 108.
How to change the license plate bulb on your Peugeot 108 coming from the outside
This technique is the simplest of the two, in truth, for this one you will simply have 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 case we will dedicate a moment on in the second section of this content page to demonstrate the approach.
So let’s start with replacing the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Peugeot 108. Whether it’s the front or the back of your motor vehicle the method will be the same.
Here are a few simple steps to stick to to carry out this maintenance:
- With the engine turned off, disconnect the battery terminals from your car
- Face your license plate and use a flat screwdriver or knife to insert the flat part into the notch assigned for this purpose (in general on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Peugeot 108
- Use your screwdriver or knife to eject the bulb from its location, if you are afraid of damaging anything, you can also 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 success of the operation.
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How to replace the number plate bulb on your Peugeot 108 without outside access
Second section of our article, change this license plate bulb on your Peugeot 108 without external access. Generally 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 Peugeot 108
To change the one on the front plate, nothing could be easier, 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 general held by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both simultaneously, then once you have your license plate bulb block in hand, Take out the plastic that operates 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 extra care not to put in too much pressure or you will break the plastic cover), and you will only have to take out the burnt-out license plate bulb and change it with the new , then check and reassemble the whole thing.
How to change the rear license plate bulb on my Peugeot 108
Finally last possibility, you must change the bulb on the backplate of your Peugeot 108, but you simply cannot open the cover from the outside of your motor vehicle. In this case, here is the process to operate this operation:
- Disconnect the battery from your Peugeot 108
- Locate the position 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 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 Peugeot 108, test it and reassemble it, watching the clips on the trunk liner
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There you have it, you have learned the main techniques for replacing license plate bulbs on your car, take notice that on some models the technique may be a bit different but you should be able to do it following the explanation of this content. If you can’t do it, don’t hesitate to go to your mechanic it would be a shame to break a part of your Peugeot 108. If you wish to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Peugeot 108 or the low beam bulbs on Peugeot 108, don’t hesitate to browse our articles which explain you the process to follow.
To find more tips on the Peugeot 108, take a look at the Peugeot 108 category.
