No matter it’s for your personal security, for roadworthiness tests or for your wallet, ensuring your headlight bulbs are all the time efficient is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will unavoidably burn out as time passes and as a result need to be changed. You’re probably on this website because one of your headlights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change the bulb of the fog lights on your Citroen C1, we’ve made this content to help you do this process on your own and not need to go to your mechanic. To start with ,, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C1 and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Citroen C1?
We are gonna begin this content with the changing the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C1, take note that depending on the year and the finish of your car it may not be the exact process to use, that’s why we are going to give you the two most classical solutions to change the front fog light bulb of your vehicle.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C1 without removing the bumper.
First technique, we will swap the bulb without removing the bumper of your car. Despite the fact this process is the least complicated, there is no assurance that you can carry it out on your car. In reality, depending on the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough space for you to change the bulb in this way. Here are the two different solutions to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Citroen C1:
- By going under the bumper of your Citroen C1: First technique, you will position yourself under your car, don’t hesitate to raise it with a jack if you don’t have enough space under the bumper. Once under the car, 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 Citroen C1 and you will not have any more (if you have enough space) remove the plastic cover, detach the plug, press on the metal part to take out the bulb and at last swap the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C1
- By removing the wheel arch: Second alternative, you can remove the wheel arch of your car to have access to the fog lamp block of your car. To do this, lift your car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and accomplish the same process as described above to change the bulb of the fog light of your Citroen C1.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C1 by removing the bumper?
We will now look at the circumstance where you are obliged by lack of space on your car model to remove the bumper of your Citroen C1 to be able to gain access to the front fog light bulb of your car. To do this, you will first have to remove the front bumper of your Citroen C1, do not be reluctant to have a look to our complete guideline to know the exact process, know to summarize, that you will need torx wrench, and that you will have to remove screws under your bonnet, in your wheel arches and under your car. Once the bumper has been taken away, you will only need to access the front fog lamp block and change the fog lamp bulb on your Citroen C1 in the same way as mentioned above.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Citroen C1?
Finally, if you wish to change the rear fog bulb of your car the process is much easier, 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 Citroen C1.
- After locating the rear fog light bulb on your car, remove the burnt-out bulb
- Insert your new rear fog light bulb into the headlamp block of your Citroen C1
- Put everything back in place
Check that your fog lights are working correctly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
If you want more tutorials on the Citroen C1, go to our Citroen C1 category.
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