Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to avoid a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are constantly working is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will predictably burn out after a while and as a result need to be swapped out. You’re probably on this website because one of your rear turn signals is burnt out and you’re trying to figure out how to change the bulb of a rear turn signal on you Fiat Stilo, we’ve written this content to enable you do it alone without having to go to your auto technician. In a first step, we will take a look at the checking a burnt-out rear turn signal bulb on your Fiat Stilo and in a second step, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on your Fiat Stilo.
How to be sure if the rear turn signal bulb on your Fiat Stilo is burnt-out or needs to be replaced?
When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the possibility to examine all the safety features of your Fiat Stilo. In reality, you are more often than not in a rush and tend to get into your car, make your trip and put it down immediately without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is due to this fact fundamental to take a little time to occasionally examine the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a burnt-out rear turn signal on your Fiat Stilo, but you didn’t identify it. Here are the two ordinary methods to examine 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 Fiat Stilo, then alternately turn on your left and right rear turn signals and get out of the car to examine that they are working.
- By paying attention to the sound of your turn signals. In truth, there is an audible warning on each car that informs you of a rear turn signal bulb burnt out on your Fiat Stilo, you will recognize that the time between each “click” is much shorter, this suggests that that you will have to change the rear turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to examine and validate which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first strategy shown above.
You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam Fiat Stilo or your position lights on Fiat Stilo, don’t be reluctant to read our content articles to help you to do this replacement.
Changing the rear turn signal bulb on my Fiat Stilo
Now let’s go to the most important step of this guideline, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on Fiat Stilo? Please note that this method is very simple, 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 Fiat Stilo, see our dedicated article content. However, here are the detailed description to adhere to in order to do this work properly:
- To access the tail light set up, 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 previously diagnosed by an external visual inspection, for this you will need to make a quarter turn in a counter-clockwise way
- Replace the rear turn signal bulb on your Fiat Stilo. There are two sort of bulbs, transparent bulbs when the cover is orange, or orange bulbs when the cover is transparent, select the right model for your car
- Remount your rear turn signal bulb and close your tail light block, then, examine your new turn signal bulb is operating effectively
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