No matter if it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or to prevent a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are constantly functional is necessary. In truth, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will obviously burn out as time passes and as a result need to be replaced. You’re certainly here because one of your rear turn signals is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change the bulb of a rear turn signal on you Maserati Levante, we’ve written this post to teach you do it alone without having to go to your auto mechanic. In a first step, we will have a look at inspecting a burnt-out rear turn signal bulb on your Maserati Levante and in a second step, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on your Maserati Levante.
How do you know if the rear turn signal bulb on your Maserati Levante is burnt-out or needs to be replaced?
When you drive your car you don’t constantly have the opportunity to check all the safety features of your Maserati Levante. In truth, 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 the time 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 Maserati Levante, but you didn’t identify 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 Maserati Levante, then alternately turn on your left and right rear turn signals and get out of the car to check that they are working.
- By paying attention to the sound of your turn signals. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that informs you of a rear turn signal bulb burnt out on your Maserati Levante, you will recognise 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 technique shown above.
You may have another bulb to change, like the one of your low beam Maserati Levante or your position lights on Maserati Levante, don’t be reluctant to read our content articles to help you to realize this replacement.
Changing the rear turn signal bulb on my Maserati Levante
Now let’s go to the most important step of this content page, how to change the rear turn signal bulb on Maserati Levante? Please note that this procedure 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 Maserati Levante, see our dedicated content. However, here are the detailed steps to follow in order to complete this process properly:
- To access the tail light set up, remove 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 Maserati Levante. 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
- Put back in place your rear turn signal bulb and close your tail light block, then, check your new turn signal bulb is functioning correctly
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