Whether it’s for your own safety, for roadworthiness testing or for your budget, ensuring that your headlight bulbs are all the time working is really important. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will obviously burn out along with time and as a result 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 Opel Zafira 3, we’ve posted this content to help you do this procedure 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 Opel Zafira 3 and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my Opel Zafira 3?
We are going to commence this content with the changing the front fog light bulb of your Opel Zafira 3, remember that based 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 vehicle.
Change the front fog light bulb of your Opel Zafira 3 without removing the bumper.
First option, we will replace the bulb without dismantling the bumper of your car. Nevertheless this technique is the least complicated, there is no assurance that you can carry it out on your car. In fact, based on 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 techniques to change the front fog lamp bulb of your Opel Zafira 3:
- By passing under the bumper of your Opel Zafira 3: First approach, 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 Opel Zafira 3 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 Opel Zafira 3
- 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 do this, lift your car up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and conduct the same procedure as described earlier to change the bulb of the fog light of your Opel Zafira 3.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your Opel Zafira 3 by removing the bumper?
We will now take a look at the case where you are obliged by lack of space on your car model to remove the bumper of your Opel Zafira 3 to be able 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 Opel Zafira 3, do not be reluctant to browse our complete guide to know the exact technique, 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 replace the fog lamp bulb on your Opel Zafira 3 in the same way as described earlier.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your Opel Zafira 3?
At last, if you want to change the rear fog bulb of your car the method is much easier, 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 Opel Zafira 3.
- After finding 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 Opel Zafira 3
- Put everything back in place
Examine that your fog lights are working properly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
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