Whether for your personal safety, for roadworthiness tests or to avoid a fine, ensuring your turn signal bulbs are always working is necessary. Indeed, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out after a while and consequently need to be replaced. You’re most probably on this page 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 Hyundai Kona, we’ve written and published this post to help you do it on your own without having to go to your repair shop. In a first step, we will check out inspecting a burnt-out rear turn signal bulb on your Hyundai Kona and in a second part, how to replace the rear turn signal bulb on your Hyundai Kona.
How do you know if the rear turn signal bulb on your Hyundai Kona is burnt-out or needs to be replaced?
When you drive your car you don’t always have the opportunity to check all the safety features of your Hyundai Kona. Indeed, 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 due to this fact fundamental to take a little time to on occasions check the condition of your headlights and turn signals. It’s quite possible that you have a burnt-out rear turn signal on your Hyundai Kona, but you didn’t identify it. Here are the two ordinary solutions to check if a rear turn signal on your car is out of order or if you need to replace it as soon as possible:
- When you stop, turn on the ignition on your Hyundai Kona, then alternately turn on your left and right rear turn signals and get out of the car to check that they are operational.
- By listening to the sound of your turn signals. In fact, there is an audible warning on each car that alerts you of a rear turn signal bulb burnt out on your Hyundai Kona, you will perceive that the time between each “click” is much closer, this involves that you will have to replace the rear turn signal bulb or before. It’s up to you to check and verify which one is burnt out by a visual check as on the first procedure shown above.
You may have another bulb to replace, like the one of your low beam Hyundai Kona or your position lights on Hyundai Kona, don’t hesitate to have a look at our publications to help you to achieve this replacing.
Changing the rear turn signal bulb on my Hyundai Kona
Now let’s go to the most important part of this article content, how to replace the rear turn signal bulb on Hyundai Kona? Take note that this procedure is quite 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 Hyundai Kona, see our dedicated guideline. However, here are the detailed description to carry out to be able to execute this act properly:
- To access the tail light assembly, 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.
- Remove the rear indicator bulb from your burnt-out turn signal that you have earlier in this article recognized 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 Hyundai Kona. 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, check your new turn signal bulb is operating properly
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