Regardless whether it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness tests or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your headlamp bulbs are in every case operational is extremely important. In fact, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will surely burn out in the future and as a consequence need to be changed. You’re almost certainly on the website because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re struggling with how to change your Seat Ateca’s license plate bulb, we’ve created this content page to help you do it without any help and not have to go to your technician. Firstly, we will look at 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 Seat Ateca.

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How to swap the license plate bulb on your Seat Ateca through the outside

This solution is the quickest of the two, in reality, for this one you will only have to take away the protective covers of the bulbs. Sadly on some years or packages of car these covers do not open from the outside and if this is the situation we will spend a moment on in the second section of this document to explain the approach.
So let’s begin with changing the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Seat Ateca. Regardless whether it’s the front or the back of your car the technique will be identical.
Here are a few simple steps to follow to carry out this 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 insert the flat part into the notch provided for this purpose (in most cases on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Seat Ateca
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  • Use your screwdriver or knife to eject the bulb from its place, in the event you are scared of destroying something, you can as well do it with your fingers.
  • Finally, put the new license plate light bulb
  • Last stage, before reassembling, reconnect your battery and test the light to confirm the success of the process.

How to replace the number plate bulb on your Seat Ateca without outside access

Second section of our document, change this license plate bulb on your Seat Ateca without external access. In most cases you will be able to access it, but some series (often at the rear does not allow this access).

How to swap the front license plate bulb on my Seat Ateca

To swap the one on the front plate, nothing could be less hard, you will have to put yourself under the car (preferably 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 at the same time, then right after 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 care not to put in too much force or you will break the plastic cover), and you will only 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 Seat Ateca

Finally last option, you must swap the bulb on the backplate of your Seat Ateca, but you are not able to open the cover from the outside of your car. In this case, here is the approach to accomplish this task:

  • Unplug the battery from your Seat Ateca
  • Identify 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, unplug the holders for less complicated access.
  • Using a screwdriver, lever the two plastic parts to remove the bulb holder
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  • Change the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Seat Ateca, test it and reassemble it, paying attention to the clips on the trunk liner

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There you have it, you have found out the main approaches 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 do it following the outline of this content page. If you can’t do it, don’t hesitate to go to your garage area it would be a shame to break a part of your Seat Ateca. If you desire to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Seat Ateca or the low beam bulbs on Seat Ateca, don’t hesitate to read our articles which explain you the procedure to follow.

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