Regardless it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your headlamp bulbs are always working is quite important. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will definitely burn out with time and therefore need to be changed. You’re most likely here because one of your position lamp is burnt out and you’re thinking about how to change the bulb of my seat leon parking light, we’ve created this content to help you do this operation without help and not need to go to your auto mechanic. In a first part, we will take a look at replacing the front daytime running light bulb of your car and in a second art, how to swap the rear daytime running light.
How to swap the front parking light bulb of my seat leon?
We will start this article with changing the front daytime running light bulb of your seat leon, take notice that according to the year and finish of your car it may not be quite the same technique to use. Indeed, regardless if the position of your bulb is not going to change, the access may be more or less problematic based on the features of your car.
First technique, we will conduct the bulb swap of your daytime running light without getting rid of the headlight of your seat leon. Although this approach is the easiest, it is not guaranteed that you will be in a position to perform it on your vehicle without trouble. Indeed, depending on the options and the year, on some versions there will not be enough space for you to swap the bulb that way. Here are the two different techniques to swap the bulb of the front parking light of your seat leon:.
- Going through the bonnet of your car: First methodology, you will only go through the bonnet of your vehicle to access your headlight unit. This is the most logical process but it is not always easy to do to accomplish, often because of secondary auto parts that will obstruct your access. To achieve this, here are the steps to carry out. First, with the engine off, disconnect the terminals of your battery to avoid any short circuit or risk of electrocution. Now that this step has been accomplished, you will need to access the back of your headlight unit to swap the daytime running light bulb on your seat leon. You may possibly need to remove the battery for easier access. In this case, you will need to open the bulb protection cap on your headlight (¼ generally does the job), then you will need to remove the bulb socket from its position. To achieve this, pull carefully on the socket and not on the wires (you risk damaging them), at last once the socket is out, you can swap your parking lamps bulb, being vigilant not to damage the wires and use a cloth to avoid dirtying your new bulb. Once completed, reassemble the system, reconnect your battery and do a check test before taking to the road.
- By getting rid of the crosshair grill and the headlight:
- Second alternative, you can remove the headlight of your seat leon in cases where the access through the engine block seems too challenging. To do this, you just have to open your bonnet, remove the front grill held by only a few torx screws, then remove the headlight in question. Once these actions are done you will just have to follow the same methodology as on the previous section to swap the front daytime running light bulb of your seat leon
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How to swap the rear parking light bulb on your seat leon
Finally, if you desire to change the rear parking light bulb of your seat leon the method is less difficult, here are the different simple steps to follow to allow you to change this bulb:
- Unplug your battery
- Get the floorboards out of the trunk.
- Unscrew the back cover of the headlight unit from your car.
- After finding the rear position lamps bulb on your car, remove the burnt-out bulb.
- Insert your new parking light bulb into the headlamp assembly on your car
- Reassemble the whole thing.
Examine that your parking lights are functioning correctly again before you set off again and you’re done. If you want to change the fog light bulb on your seat leon, please read our dedicated article to learn how to do it.
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