No matter it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness tests or for your wallet, ensuring that your headlight bulbs are constantly functional is really important. The truth is, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out after a while and as a result need to be replaced. You’re probably on this page 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 Xantia, we’ve made this content to help you do this operation on your own and not need to go to your repair shop. First of all, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Citroen Xantia and subsequently, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Citroen Xantia?
We are going to commence this content with the replacing the front fog light bulb of your Citroen Xantia, you should know that dependant upon the year and the finish of your car it may not be the same process to use, that’s why we are going to give you the two most traditional solutions to replace the front fog light bulb of your car.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen Xantia without removing the bumper.
First solution, we will swap the bulb without removing the bumper of your car. Nevertheless this process is the simplest, there is no assurance that you can carry it out on your car. The truth is, determined by the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough room for you to change the bulb in this way. Here are the two different ways to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Citroen Xantia:
- By passing under the bumper of your Citroen Xantia: First technique, you will put yourself under your car, don’t hesitate to raise 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 and that rests on your bumper, you will have access to the fog light block of your Citroen Xantia 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 swap the front fog light bulb of your Citroen Xantia
- 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 accomplish this, lift your car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and perform the same operation as mentioned earlier to change the bulb of the fog light of your Citroen Xantia.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Citroen Xantia by removing the bumper?
We will at this point take a look at the case where you are obliged by lack of room on your car model to remove the bumper of your Citroen Xantia in order to gain access to the front fog light bulb of your car. To achieve this, you will initially have to remove the front bumper of your Citroen Xantia, do not hesitate to have a look to our complete guide to find out 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 Xantia in the same way as described earlier.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Citroen Xantia?
At last, if you want to change the rear fog bulb of your car the process is much simpler, here are the different steps to stick to 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 Xantia.
- After finding 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 Xantia
- Put everything back again
Check that your fog lights are working correctly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
If you want more guides on the Citroen Xantia, go to our Citroen Xantia category.
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