Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness tests or to prevent a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are all the time working is very important. Obviously, bulbs are wearing devices that will surely burn out with time and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re most likely here because one of your rear turn signals is burnt out and you’re questioning how to change the bulb of a rear turn signal on you BMW X4, we’ve written this post to teach you do it alone without having to go to your mechanic. In a first step, we will look at the checking a burnt-out rear turn signal bulb on your BMW X4 and in a second part, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on your BMW X4.
How do you know if the rear turn signal bulb on your BMW X4 is burnt-out or needs to be replaced?
When you drive your car you don’t all the time have the opportunity to check all the safety features of your BMW X4. Obviously, you are quite often in a rush and tend to get into your car, make your journey and put it down right away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a result necessary to make the effort to in some instances check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a burnt-out rear turn signal on your BMW X4, but you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two basic solutions to check if a rear turn signal on your car is out of order or if you need to change it quickly:
- When you stop, turn on the ignition on your BMW X4, then alternately turn on your left and right rear turn signals and get out of the car to check that they are functional.
- By paying attention to the sound of your turn signals. In truth, there is an audible warning on each car that notifies you of a rear turn signal bulb burnt out on your BMW X4, you will notice that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that 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 methodology shown above.
You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam BMW X4 or your position lights on BMW X4, don’t be reluctant to browse our web content to help you to achieve this replacement.
Replacing the rear turn signal bulb on my BMW X4
Now let’s go to the most important part of this article content, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on BMW X4? Please note that this technique is quite easy, you will need to access, from the inside of your trunk, your headlight unit, open it and replace the burnt out rear turn signal bulb on your car. If it is a bulb on your front turn signal on your BMW X4, see our dedicated content page. However, here are the detailed description to follow in order to perform this act properly:
- To access the tail light set up, take off 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.
- Take off the rear indicator bulb from your burnt-out turn signal that you have previously recognized 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 BMW X4. There are two kind of bulbs, transparent bulbs when the cover is orange, or orange bulbs when the cover is transparent, select the right model for your car
- Put back in place your rear turn signal bulb and close your tail light block, then, check your new turn signal bulb is functioning in the right way
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