Regardless it’s for your own security, for roadworthiness tests or for your budget, making sure your headlight bulbs are actually working is really important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out after a while and as a result need to be replaced. You’re most likely here because one of your headlights is burnt out and you’re wanting to know how to change the bulb of the fog lights on your Citroen C5, we’ve posted this article to help you do this procedure by yourself and not need to go to your mechanic. Firstly, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C5 and subsequently, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Citroen C5?
We are gonna begin this article with the replacing the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C5, bear in mind that dependant upon the year and the finish of your car it may not be the same technique to employ, that’s why we are going to give you the two most classical methods to replace the front fog light bulb of your vehicle.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C5 without removing the bumper.
First method, we will replace the bulb without removing the bumper of your car. Even though this technique is the least complicated, there is no guarantee that you can perform it on your vehicle. In fact, determined by the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough room for you to change the bulb by doing this. Here are the two different methods to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Citroen C5:
- By going under the bumper of your Citroen C5: First approach, you will position yourself under your vehicle, don’t hesitate to lift it with a jack if you don’t have enough room 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 Citroen C5 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 swap the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C5
- By removing the wheel arch: Second solution, 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 carry out the same procedure as detailed previously to change the bulb of the fog light of your Citroen C5.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C5 by removing the bumper?
We will at this point look at the case where you are obliged by lack of room on your car model to remove the bumper of your Citroen C5 to be able to gain access to the front fog light bulb of your car. To accomplish this, you will first of all have to remove the front bumper of your Citroen C5, do not hesitate to browse our complete instruction to know the exact procedure, 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 vehicle. 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 C5 in the same way as mentioned previously.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Citroen C5?
At last, if you want to change the rear fog bulb of your car the technique is much easier, here are the different steps to stick to 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 C5.
- After discovering 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 C5
- Put everything back in place
Check that your fog lights are working correctly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
To get more tips on the Citroen C5, take a look at the Citroen C5 category.
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