Regardless it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness tests or to avoid a fine, ensuring your headlamp bulbs are all the time effective is extremely important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out in the future and therefore need to be changed. You’re quite likely on the website because one of your parking lights is burnt out and you’re wanting to know how to change your Volkswagen Polo 8’s license plate bulb, we’ve created this document to help you do it by yourself and not have to go to your 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 Polo 8.
How to replace the license plate bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 8 coming from the outside
This process is the simplest of the two, in reality, for this one you will simply need 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 case we will spend some time on in the second section of this content to demonstrate the way.
So let’s begin with changing the number plate bulb by going through the outside of your Volkswagen Polo 8. Regardless it’s the front or the back of your vehicle the operation will be identical.
Here are a few simple actions to follow to perform this service:
- With the engine off, disconnect the battery terminals from your car
- Position yourself in front of your license plate and use a flat screwdriver or knife to insert the flat part into the notch provided for this purpose (in general on the transparent cover) and lever on the plastic window to open the license plate bulb slot of your Volkswagen Polo 8
- Use your screwdriver or knife to remove the bulb from its location, in the event that you are afraid of destroying something, you can also do it with your fingers.
- Finally, put the new license plate light bulb
- Last step, before reassembling, reconnect your battery and verify the light to confirm the successfulness of the process.
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How to replace the number plate bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 8 without outside access
Second section of our article, swap this license plate bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 8 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 replace the front license plate bulb on my Volkswagen Polo 8
To replace the one on the front plate, nothing could be less difficult, you will have to put 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, in general kept by two soft plastic tabs by pressing on both at once, then now that you have your license plate bulb block in hand, Take away the plastic that works 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 put in too much pressure 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 test out and reassemble the whole thing.
How to replace the rear license plate bulb on my Volkswagen Polo 8
Finally last solution, you must replace the bulb on the backplate of your Volkswagen Polo 8, but you are not able to open the cover from the outside of your vehicle. In this instance, here is the solution to do this operation:
- Unplug the battery from your Volkswagen Polo 8
- 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, 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, disconnect the holders for much easier access.
- Using a screwdriver, lever the two plastic parts to remove the bulb holder
- Replace the burnt-out license plate bulb on your Volkswagen Polo 8, verify 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, take note that on some models the technique may be a bit different but you should be able to realize it following the outline of this article content. 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 Volkswagen Polo 8. If you need to change other bulbs like the position light bulbs on your Volkswagen Polo 8 or the low beam bulbs on Volkswagen Polo 8, don’t hesitate to read our articles which explain you the operation to follow.
If you need more tutorials on the Volkswagen Polo 8, go to our Volkswagen Polo 8 category.
