No matter it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or for your budget, making sure your headlight bulbs are constantly working is very important. Actually, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will obviously burn out in the long run and as a consequence need to be replaced. You’re almost certainly on this page because one of your headlights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change the bulb of the fog lights on your Bmw Serie 3, we’ve written and published this content to help you do this procedure without help and not need to go to your auto technician. Firstly, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Bmw Serie 3 and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Bmw Serie 3?
We are going to start this content with the changing the front fog light bulb of your Bmw Serie 3, take note that determined by the year and the finish of your car it may not be the same technique to use, that’s why we are going to give you the two most traditional methods to change the front fog light bulb of your car.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Bmw Serie 3 without removing the bumper.
First method, we will change the bulb without removing the bumper of your car. Even though this process is the least difficult, there is no assurance that you can perform it on your vehicle. Actually, determined by the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough space for you to change the bulb using this method. Here are the two different techniques to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Bmw Serie 3:
- By passing under the bumper of your Bmw Serie 3: First approach, you will put yourself under your vehicle, don’t hesitate to raise it with a jack if you don’t have enough space under the bumper. Once under the vehicle, all you have to do is to remove the clips of the plastic shoe that covers your engine motor and that rests on your bumper, you will have access to the fog light block of your Bmw Serie 3 and you will not have any more (if you have enough space) remove the plastic cover, disconnect the plug, press on the metal part to take out the bulb and finally change the front fog light bulb of your Bmw Serie 3
- By removing the wheel arch: Second option, you can remove the wheel arch of your car to have access to the fog lamp block of your car. To achieve this, jack your vehicle up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and accomplish the same procedure as explained above to change the bulb of the fog light of your Bmw Serie 3.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Bmw Serie 3 by removing the bumper?
We will now look at the case where you are obliged by lack of space on your car model to remove the bumper of your Bmw Serie 3 to be able to gain access to the front fog light bulb of your car. To do this, you will initially have to remove the front bumper of your Bmw Serie 3, do not be reluctant to have a look to our complete guide to find out the exact process, know to summarize, that you will need torx wrench, and that you will have to remove screws under your hood, in your wheel arches and under your vehicle. Once the bumper has been removed, you will only need to access the front fog lamp block and change the fog lamp bulb on your Bmw Serie 3 in the same technique as mentioned above.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Bmw Serie 3?
Finally, if you want to change the rear fog bulb of your car the technique is much simpler, here are the different steps to follow to allow you to change this bulb:
- By the trunk, remove the floor covering from your trunk.
- Unscrew the back cover of the headlight unit from your Bmw Serie 3.
- After discovering the rear fog light bulb on your car, remove the burnt-out bulb
- Put in your new rear fog light bulb into the headlamp block of your Bmw Serie 3
- Put everything back in place
Examine that your fog lights are working properly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
If you want more tutorials on the Bmw Serie 3, go to our Bmw Serie 3 category.
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