Regardless whether it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness assessment or for your budget, making sure your headlight bulbs are always functioning is very important. In fact, bulbs are wearing auto parts that will unavoidably burn out after a while and therefore need to be changed. 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 Mercedes Vito, we’ve written and published this article to help you do this process without help and not need to go to your auto mechanic. To start with ,, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your Mercedes Vito and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Mercedes Vito?
We are gonna start this article with the replacing the front fog light bulb of your Mercedes Vito, take note that depending on the year and the finish of your car it may not be the exact method to employ, that’s why we are going to give you the two most classical techniques to replace the front fog light bulb of your car.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Mercedes Vito without removing the bumper.
First technique, we will replace the bulb without removing the bumper of your car. Although this technique is the least complicated, there is no assurance that you can carry it out on your car. In fact, in accordance with the options and the year, on some models there will not be enough room for you to change the bulb in this manner. Here are the two different ways to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Mercedes Vito:
- By going under the bumper of your Mercedes Vito: First approach, you will position 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 protects your engine unit and that rests on your bumper, you will have access to the fog light block of your Mercedes Vito 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 at last change the front fog light bulb of your Mercedes Vito
- 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 make this happen, jack your car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and conduct the same process as described above to change the bulb of the fog light of your Mercedes Vito.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Mercedes Vito 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 Mercedes Vito to be able to access the front fog light bulb of your car. To accomplish this, you will initially have to remove the front bumper of your Mercedes Vito, do not think twice to browse our complete guideline to find out the exact technique, 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 taken off, you will only need to access the front fog lamp block and replace the fog lamp bulb on your Mercedes Vito in the same technique as stated above.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Mercedes Vito?
At last, if you wish to change the rear fog bulb of your car the method is much easier, 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 Mercedes Vito.
- After locating 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 Mercedes Vito
- Put everything back in place
Check that your fog lights are working correctly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
If you wish more guides on the Mercedes Vito, go to our Mercedes Vito category.
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