Regardless whether it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your headlamp bulbs are in every case functional is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing units that will obviously burn out over the years and as a consequence need to be swapped out. You’re perhaps here because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change your Volkswagen Multivan’s license plate bulb, we’ve created this content page to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your auto technician. 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 Volkswagen Multivan.
How to swap the license plate bulb on your Volkswagen Multivan through the outside
This solution is the quickest of the two, in truth, for this one you will simply need to take out the protective covers of the bulbs. Regrettably on some years or packages of car these covers do not open from the outside and if this is the case we will dedicate some time on in the second part of this article to clarify the method.
So let’s begin with swapping the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Volkswagen Multivan. Regardless whether it’s the front or the back of your motor vehicle the process will be similar.
Here are a few simple steps to stick to to perform this service:
- With the engine 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 provided for this intent (almost always on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Volkswagen Multivan
- Use your screwdriver or knife to remove the bulb from its placement, in the event that you are scared of breaking 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 verify the light to validate the successfulness of the operation.
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How to replace the number plate bulb on your Volkswagen Multivan without outside access
Second part of our document, replace this license plate bulb on your Volkswagen Multivan 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 Volkswagen Multivan
To swap the one on the front plate, nothing could be less difficult, you will have to put yourself under the motor vehicle (preferably put 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, almost always kept by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both at the same time, then now that you have your license plate bulb block in hand, Remove 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 mindful not to apply too much force otherwise you will break the plastic cover), and you will simply have to take out the burnt-out license plate bulb and swap it with the new , then test and reassemble the whole thing.
How to swap the rear license plate bulb on my Volkswagen Multivan
Finally last possibility, you must swap the bulb on the backplate of your Volkswagen Multivan, but you cannot open the cover from the outside of your motor vehicle. In this instance, here is the approach to operate this operation:
- Unplug the battery from your Volkswagen Multivan
- Find the position 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 gently on all the frame of the trunk to remove it.
- Once found, before removing the bulb holders, unplug the holders for easier access.
- Using a screwdriver, lever the two plastic parts to remove the bulb holder
- Change the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Volkswagen Multivan, verify 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 ways for swapping 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 do it following the explanation of this article. If you can’t do it, don’t be reluctant to go to your mechanic it would be a shame to break a part of your Volkswagen Multivan. If you need to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Volkswagen Multivan or the low beam bulbs on Volkswagen Multivan, don’t be reluctant to browse our content articles which demonstrate you the operation to follow.
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