No matter it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness evaluation or for your budget, being sure your headlight bulbs are all the time functioning is fundamental. The reality is, bulbs are wearing parts that will unavoidably burn out as time passes and as a consequence need to be replaced. You’re almost certainly 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 Kia Niro, we’ve created this content to help you do this process by yourself and not need to go to your mechanic. First of all, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Kia Niro and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Kia Niro?
We are gonna begin this content with the replacing the front fog light bulb of your Kia Niro, you should know that depending on the year and the finish of your car it may not be the same method to use, that’s why we are going to give you the two most traditional ways to replace the front fog light bulb of your vehicle.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Kia Niro without removing the bumper.
First option, we will swap the bulb without dismantling the bumper of your car. Even though this technique is the simplest, there is no guarantee that you can perform it on your car. The reality is, according to the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough space for you to change the bulb by doing this. Here are the two different solutions to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Kia Niro:
- By going under the bumper of your Kia Niro: First technique, you will position yourself under your car, don’t be reluctant to lift 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 unit and that rests on your bumper, you will have access to the fog light block of your Kia Niro 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 change the front fog light bulb of your Kia Niro
- 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 car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and execute the same process as mentioned above to change the bulb of the fog light of your Kia Niro.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Kia Niro by removing the bumper?
We will at this point take a look at the case where you are obliged by lack of space on your car model to remove the bumper of your Kia Niro 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 Kia Niro, do not be reluctant 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 hood, 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 change the fog lamp bulb on your Kia Niro in the same manner as stated above.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Kia Niro?
At last, if you want to change the rear fog bulb of your car the method is much simpler, 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 Kia Niro.
- 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 Kia Niro
- Put everything back in place
Verify that your fog lights are working properly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
To find more tips on the Kia Niro, take a look at the Kia Niro category.
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