Whether for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or to prevent a fine, ensuring that your turn signal bulbs are all the time functional is imperative. Obviously, bulbs are wearing devices that will surely burn out as time passes and therefore need to be swapped out. You’re probably on this website 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 Mercury Milan, we’ve created this article to enable you do it on your own without having to go to your technician. In a first step, we will check out inspecting a burnt-out rear turn signal bulb on your Mercury Milan and in a second part, how to replace the rear turn signal bulb on your Mercury Milan.
How do you know if the rear turn signal bulb on your Mercury Milan is burnt-out or needs to be changed?
When you drive your automobile you don’t all the time have the opportunity to check all the safety features of your Mercury Milan. Obviously, you are often on the go and tend to get into your automobile, make your journey and put it down straight away without taking the time to do an occasional check-up. It is as a result crucial to spend some 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 Mercury Milan, but you didn’t become aware of it. Here are the two ordinary methods 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 Mercury Milan, then alternately turn on your left and right rear turn signals and get out of the car to check that they are operational.
- By paying attention to the sound of your turn signals. Indeed, there is an audible indicator on each car that notifies you of a rear turn signal bulb burnt out on your Mercury Milan, you will detect that the time between each “click” is much closer, this suggests that that you will have to replace 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 replace, like the one of your low beam Mercury Milan or your position lights on Mercury Milan, don’t hesitate to consult our publications to help you to do this replacement.
Replacing the rear turn signal bulb on my Mercury Milan
Now let’s go to the most instersting part of this content, how to replace the rear turn signal bulb on Mercury Milan? Take note that this method is fairly 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 Mercury Milan, see our specific content page. However, here are the detailed steps to stick to to be able to execute this process accurately:
- 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
- Replace the rear turn signal bulb on your Mercury Milan. 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 properly
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