MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Neil R on January 10, 2013, 10:27:38 am
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Can anyone tell me how I go about fitting led number plate lights to my ed30? Is it just a case of fitting bulbs or do I need some sort of kit?
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You just need canbus LED's so you don't get a 'bulb out' warning on the display.
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Thanks for the reply. Would halfrauds have these bulbs??
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Mine arrived from www.hids-direct.co.uk this morning. I don't think Halfords do them.
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Going to purchase these now thanks Adam. :happy2:
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+1 for xtec
50/50
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At night all done!
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That looks much brighter. Can't wait to get mine fitted now. :smiley:
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Definately one of my best cosmetic mods i've done. LEDs just made the back of a golf! Looks soooooooooo nice!
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Well impressed with the new bulbs. Only ordered them yesterday and delivered today....that's not bad :drinking:
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Will these work on my Audi? :confused:
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can't see why not. Welshman Adam has a link www.hids-direct.co.uk
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can't see why not. Welshman Adam has a link www.hids-direct.co.uk
Cheers :happy2:
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Will these work on my Audi? :confused:
What year Justin?
Highly unlikely if my experiences are anything to go by :grin: :fighting:
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You could give them a call to make sure they would fit your audi they are open Mon to fri 09:30-1600 and sat 09:30-13:30
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You could give them a call to make sure they would fit your audi they are open Mon to fri 09:30-1600 and sat 09:30-13:30
Unlikely they'll actually have tried on an Audi of year 'MYxx' as I've found with most LED light sellers, to be fair Neil. The lights will almost definitely fit and almost definitely work, but you'll get a canbus error without any doubt. I'm going to meetup with my mate (adamsin on here) who owns my old flame of a MK5 GTI which I fitted these very Xtec bulbs too, in fact, to try them in the Audi once and for all.
I've been through more sets of LED plate bulbs for the Audi than have been manufactured, it feels like.
Basically the 2009+ Audi canbuses (particularly the A3) is fussy as f**k. It even spits a dash error for OEM Audi A5 LED bulb units (£25 a pop), WITH a VCDS setting enabled to allow OEM LED bulb units.
Bullshizer, eh? :sad1: :sick:
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Not so good m8. You must have spent a fortune. That is a shizer
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Mine arrived from www.hids-direct.co.uk this morning. I don't think Halfords do them.
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F13%2F01%2F10%2Fbe8ynuje.jpg&hash=145b17cee72f6ca1df51dedb53dc06cd0b22b5ed)
+1 Got a set of these in the post this morning as one of my old ebay specials was doing morse code as i drove along giving me a bulb out on the dash :fighting:
Once removed i could see that they had been running hot and scorched on the circuit board on both bulbs
These are brighter than my previous ones which were only 3smd and not 9smd but not stupidly bright like some that i've seen driving around lighting up the floor :signLOL:
So far so good :happy2: fingers crossed they last a decent amount of time
Dave
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Will these work on my Audi? :confused:
Just to confirm Justin (after my little story book further up) having tried these by swapping them out of my previous MK5 GTI which I still have access to, these work, but produce a DIS error as expected. They look great but you'd need to disable the cold plate lamp diagnosis with VCDS to avoid the error. You of course then get no DIS error if one of them blows either, but it's an average workaround.