Regardless it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or for your budget, ensuring your headlight bulbs are actually functional is necessary. In reality, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out after a while and as a consequence need to be changed. You’re probably 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 C8, we’ve created this article content to help you do this operation without help and not need to go to your mechanic. Firstly, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C8 and subsequently, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Citroen C8?
We are gonna start this article content with the swapping the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C8, be aware that determined by 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 car.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C8 without removing the bumper.
First solution, we will change the bulb without taking out the bumper of your car. Although this technique is the least complicated, there is no guarantee that you can carry it out on your car. In reality, dependant upon the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough room for you to change the bulb using this method. Here are the two different methods to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Citroen C8:
- By going under the bumper of your Citroen C8: First approach, you will position yourself under your car, don’t hesitate to lift it with a jack if you don’t have enough room 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 C8 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 finally change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C8
- 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 get this done, jack your car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and execute the same operation as described earlier to change the bulb of the fog light of your Citroen C8.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen C8 by removing the bumper?
We will at this point check out the case where you are obliged by lack of room on your car model to remove the bumper of your Citroen C8 to be able to access the front fog light bulb of your car. To do this, you will first have to remove the front bumper of your Citroen C8, do not hesitate to have a look to our complete guide to know the exact operation, 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 removed, you will only need to access the front fog lamp block and replace the fog lamp bulb on your Citroen C8 in the same way as mentioned earlier.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Citroen C8?
Finally, if you wish 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 replace this bulb:
- By the trunk, remove the floor covering from your trunk.
- Unscrew the back cover of the headlight unit from your Citroen C8.
- 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 Citroen C8
- 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 Citroen C8, go to our Citroen C8 category.
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