Newbie Q

[highlander]

Hello,

How does one change the indicator bulb on a 406 D9?

Cheers
Graeme

[steve_earwig]

I guess you mean a front indicator, I've never had to change one myself (yet), what does the handbook say?

4 - Direction indicators (P 21 W)
Turn the bulb holder a quarter turn and remove it. Change the bulb.

I guess it misses the bit where you have to break both wrists to get in there...

[sirwiggum]

Clearly Peugeot designers don't have big fat hands.

Big pointy lights

[highlander]

Told you I was a newbie I mean the side repeater indicator, the one where White Van Man bastard hit my poor car

I need to put the car through its MOT this month, and I don't want to take her to the garage and get them to replace the whole side repeater if it's just a broken bulb.

She'll pass the MOT, I know she will - but not if there's a light on her that doesn't work.

[Doggy]

She'll pass the MOT, I know she will - but not if there's a light on her that doesn't work.

Not strictly true - only some lights are checked during an MOT, (albeit most of them). Reversing lights don't get checked, I don't think front fogs do and I'm fairly sure indicator repeaters don't either......

[Welly]

Side repeaters 'pop through' the wings but you can bet you've gotta fetch the wheel arch liner out to liberate the damn thing from the inside

[sirwiggum]

I changed the orange repeats on my Xantia to D9 repeaters, so the process should be similar.

Used a credit card / old clubcard to get the old repeater out, there is a little springy bit in the plastic holder. Don't use a screwdriver in case of scratches!

Tie a cable tie around the wire to stop it flying back into the wing!

Easy enough to get at repeaters.

[FarmerPug]

As a general observation the d8s have the indicators in the wing side strip, the d9s have it up in the middle ish of the wing, the d8 setup seemed a bit neater.

[jasper5]

She'll pass the MOT, I know she will - but not if there's a light on her that doesn't work.

Not strictly true - only some lights are checked during an MOT, (albeit most of them). Reversing lights don't get checked, I don't think front fogs do and I'm fairly sure indicator repeaters don't either......

Side repeaters are included in the test......http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_140.htm

[Doggy]

I imagined that repeaters weren't fitted to all vehicles so might not be checked.

[sirwiggum]

I imagined that repeaters weren't fitted to all vehicles so might not be checked.

I think it is for cars that have them fitted, especially after a certain year. For example, a model T would not need side repeaters MOTd.

Same with rear seatbelts. A mk1 Citroen CX may not have any, so will not fail for not having them, but chop them out of your 406 and faily fail fail