No matter if it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness evaluation or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are all the time functional is necessary. Obviously, bulbs are wearing parts that will surely burn out after a while and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re almost certainly here because one of your rear turn signals is burnt out and you’re wanting to know how to change the bulb of a rear turn signal on you Audi E-Tron, we’ve written and published this article to help you do it all on your own without having to go to your technician. In a first step, we will examine examining a burnt-out rear turn signal bulb on your Audi E-Tron and in a second step, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on your Audi E-Tron.
How to be sure if the rear turn signal bulb on your Audi E-Tron is burnt-out or needs to be changed?
When you drive your vehicle you don’t all the time have the occasion to verify all the safety features of your Audi E-Tron. Obviously, you are often times on the go and are likely to get into your vehicle, make your journey and put it down instantly without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is therefore crucial to take the time to once in a while verify the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a burnt-out rear turn signal on your Audi E-Tron, but you didn’t identify it. Here are the two basic techniques to verify if a rear turn signal on your car is out of order or if you need to change it as soon as possible:
- When you stop, turn on the ignition on your Audi E-Tron, then alternately turn on your left and right rear turn signals and get out of the car to verify that they are efficient.
- By paying attention to the sound of your turn signals. In actual fact, there is an audible indicator on each car that notifies you of a rear turn signal bulb burnt out on your Audi E-Tron, you will recognize that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this means that you will have to change the rear turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and validate which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first technique shown above.
You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam Audi E-Tron or your position lights on Audi E-Tron, don’t hesitate to consult our content articles to help you to achieve this substitution.
Changing the rear turn signal bulb on my Audi E-Tron
Now let’s go to the most instersting step of this content, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on Audi E-Tron? Take note that this operation is very simple, you will need to access, from the inside of your trunk, your headlight unit, open it and change the burnt out rear turn signal bulb on your car. If it is a bulb on your front turn signal on your Audi E-Tron, see our dedicated article content. However, here are the full description to carry out to be able to perform this work accurately:
- To access the tail light assembly, take out the carpeting or plastic cover to access the tail light assembly.
- Use a screwdriver or torx wrench (6-pointed star) to open the tail light assembly.
- Remove the rear indicator bulb from your burnt-out turn signal that you have earlier in this article identified by an external visual inspection, for this you will need to make a quarter turn in a counter-clockwise way
- Change the rear turn signal bulb on your Audi E-Tron. There are two kind of bulbs, transparent bulbs when the cover is orange, or orange bulbs when the cover is transparent, choose the right model for your car
- Remount your rear turn signal bulb and close your tail light block, then, verify your new turn signal bulb is working effectively
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