No matter it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness assessment or for your wallet, being certain your headlight bulbs are always functional is extremely important. Actually, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will unavoidably burn out along with time and consequently need to be replaced. You’re most likely here because one of your headlights is burnt out and you’re concerned about how to change the bulb of the fog lights on your Kia Optima, we’ve created this article to help you do this operation by yourself and not need to go to your mechanic. To begin with ,, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Kia Optima and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Kia Optima?
We are gonna start this article with the swapping the front fog light bulb of your Kia Optima, be aware that dependent on the year and the finish of your car it may not be the same technique to utilise, that’s why we are going to give you the two most common techniques to change the front fog light bulb of your vehicle.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Kia Optima without removing the bumper.
First solution, we will change the bulb without taking out the bumper of your car. Although this technique is the simplest, there is no guarantee that you can carry it out on your car. Actually, depending on 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 Kia Optima:
- By going under the bumper of your Kia Optima: First approach, you will put 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 protects your engine and that rests on your bumper, you will have access to the fog light block of your Kia Optima 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 change the front fog light bulb of your Kia Optima
- 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 accomplish this, jack your car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and conduct the same operation as described earlier to change the bulb of the fog light of your Kia Optima.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Kia Optima 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 Kia Optima in order to gain access to the front fog light bulb of your car. To do so, you will first have to remove the front bumper of your Kia Optima, do not be reluctant to read our complete instruction to find out the exact process, know to summarize, that you will need torx wrench, and that you will have to remove screws under your cover, in your wheel arches and under your car. Once the bumper has been taken off, you will only need to access the front fog lamp block and change the fog lamp bulb on your Kia Optima in the same procedure as described earlier.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Kia Optima?
At last, if you wish to change the rear fog bulb of your car the technique 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 Optima.
- 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 Kia Optima
- Put everything back in place
Examine that your fog lights are working correctly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
If you wish more guides on the Kia Optima, go to our Kia Optima category.
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