Regardless whether it’s for your personal safety, for roadworthiness testing or for your budget, ensuring your headlight bulbs are all the time working is imperative. In fact, bulbs are wearing parts that will inevitably burn out with time and as a result need to be replaced. You’re most likely in this article because one of your headlights is burnt out and you’re wondering how to change the bulb of the fog lights on your smart forfour, we’ve made this article to help you do this process on your own and not need to go to your mechanic. Firstly, we will look at chaging the front fog light bulb of your smart forfour and secondly, how to change the rear fog light bulb on your car.
How to change the front fog light bulb of my smart forfour?
We are gonna start this article with the replacing the front fog light bulb of your smart forfour, bear in mind that depending 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 replace the front fog light bulb of your car.
Change the front fog light bulb of your smart forfour without removing the bumper.
First solution, we will change the bulb without dismantling the bumper of your car. Despite the fact this process is the least difficult, there is no assurance that you can carry it out on your vehicle. 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 by doing this. Here are the two different solutions to change the front fog lamp bulb of your smart forfour:
- By going under the bumper of your smart forfour: First approach, you will put yourself under your vehicle, don’t hesitate to lift it with a jack if you don’t have enough room under the bumper. Once under the vehicle, 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 smart forfour 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 smart forfour
- 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 vehicle up, remove the front wheels, then remove your wheel arch using the clips provided for this purpose and perform the same process as detailed previously to change the bulb of the fog light of your smart forfour.
How to change the front fog light bulb of your smart forfour by removing the bumper?
We will now take a look at the case where you are obliged by lack of room on your car model to remove the bumper of your smart forfour to be able to gain access to the front fog light bulb of your car. To do so, you will first of all have to remove the front bumper of your smart forfour, do not hesitate to have a look to our complete instruction to know the exact procedure, 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 vehicle. 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 smart forfour in the same technique as described previously.
How to change the rear fog light bulb on your smart forfour?
To finish, if you want 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 smart forfour.
- 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 smart forfour
- Put everything back again
Examine that your fog lights are working correctly again before you hit the road and you’re done.
If you have any further questions about the smart forfour, do not hesitate to consult our smart forfour category.
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