MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Black9 on July 05, 2014, 01:06:03 am

Title: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: Black9 on July 05, 2014, 01:06:03 am
Looking to remove my factory xenons from my car and put them on another which is running halogen items. How easy/hard is this and is there coding etc involved

Any links or vids that can provide further Info?
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: Wooosh on July 05, 2014, 02:20:34 am
Fitting xenon's to another Golf running halogen headlights requires adapters and coding with VCDS.
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: Viking on July 05, 2014, 08:05:01 am
How are you going to cope without headlights on your car? Or are you doing a swap back with the standard headlights into yours?
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: DamoP on July 05, 2014, 08:37:08 am
google my friend...took 2 seconds to find this



http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?3552517/page2
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: Black9 on July 05, 2014, 01:50:07 pm
Thanks for the links and info. I'll have a look over them just now.

I've seen another ED30 I'm interested in running halogens and my current car runs xenons so it would be a case of swapping them over in the driveway if that's poss.

If a car with xenons doesn't have headlight washers is that a mot fail?
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: betty_swollox on July 05, 2014, 01:52:11 pm
Quote from: Black9 on July 05, 2014, 01:50:07 pm


If a car with xenons doesn't have headlight washers is that a mot fail?


I heard that was the case mate, cos I wanted xenons on mine
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: Viking on July 05, 2014, 02:10:16 pm
No, if washers and headlight levelling devices are fitted, then they must work. If not fitted then they can't be tested so cannot fail.
Title: Re: Removing xenons and refitting to a non xenon car
Post by: SurreyED30 on July 05, 2014, 07:01:05 pm
Quote from: Viking on July 05, 2014, 02:10:16 pm
No, if washers and headlight levelling devices are fitted, then they must work. If not fitted then they can't be tested so cannot fail.
Correct  :happy2: