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Pete's OEM+ A3 Black Edition
rdfcpete:
--- Quote from: GTIRichard on December 18, 2012, 01:44:03 am ---Hi Pete you mind telling me where you got your rear LED number plate bulbs? Getting tired of the warning beep from the dis every time I turn the lights on :fighting:
Thanks
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Of course fella - did you find out the expensive and frustrating way like me?! :grin: :drinking:
There's a few ways around it. You can use OEM LED Audi A5 bulb units like I did, but to avoid the error you need some additional Kufatec wiring which I CBA with tbh. Unnecessary in my eyes. They look great but are very bright (like mine). There's a thread or two on ASN if you want more info.
These are what I've got, £26 all in. Bear in mind though that ones just blown for me and the seller has agreed to replace the faulty unit (after about three weeks of successful use). You also have to bend the pins on the units that make contact with the light circuit receivers in the plate light moulds on the car ever so slightly, so they're not quite OEM replicas. On the other hand, they look great (perhaps too bright) but very white, with no DIS error.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370574167997?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
You could also get some white standard fit non LED bulbs (which at this very minute I've got in, as a back up to the LED ones) but they're nowhere near as bright and give off quite a blue light. Lot cheaper though and easy to fit in your OEM bulb housings.
Those ones are these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/230552426951?item=230552426951&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME:L:OC:GB:3160&vxp=mtr
I think I've probably spent about £300 on different bulbs between the MK5 and A3 over the years - fun and games :laugh: :evilgrin:
What model/year is your A3 out of interest?
HTH :happy2:
monte:
--- Quote from: rdfcpete on December 08, 2012, 04:20:25 pm ---^ Useful to know, cheers. Yeah I'm on ASN although it's got nothing on this place.
Stance is getting there - intention is to drop the rear a tad more once I've got some wider BBS on.
I'm also realising that owning a black car means cleaning it every 5 days without fail to remain clean through winter :sad1:
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Pete, the more I see your A3 the more I love it.
Even when filthy it looks awesome! :smiley:
rdfcpete:
Thanks chief :happy2:
Happy new year to you Carlo, hope you have a quality one! :party:
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Been looking at Recaro options including TTRS and RS3 seats, although they don't come up every day and will be well in excess of £2k.
Therefore, I've been eyeing up something like this:
Nothing wrong with the current seats either, do like them. Be nice to have something with the bucket feel again, bit more like the GTI had
Daleek9:
CS's are nice but you'll pay around the same money for some oem buckets. I know which I'd rather have :D
rdfcpete:
I found a half leather set for around £750, which would be the preference as half leather is what I've got now and I'm not a big fan of 100% leather seats.
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