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Offline RunRabbit

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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2009, 01:30:41 pm »
the lights that come on underneath your mirrors when you open the door! Nousey - make up a little loom like the ziza use! Bulb holder wired with a resistor in series and a bulb end to plug into the holder! Most parts are available cheap from eBay and VW!!
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2009, 01:31:19 pm »
^^^a downward-pointing light on the underside of the wingmirror than lights up the area by the door so you can watch out for puddles. Come on/off with the coming home/going out lights.
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2009, 04:44:06 pm »
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Ryan has LED bulbs on his Rocco. PM wigit - He may know where to find Ryan.

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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2009, 09:39:38 pm »
Cheers Robin I'll give him a yell  :happy2:
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2009, 09:39:57 pm »
Quote from: RedRobin on April 26, 2009, 04:44:06 pm
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Ryan has LED bulbs on his Rocco. PM wigit - He may know where to find Ryan.


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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2009, 09:41:29 pm »
Quote from: Greenouse on April 26, 2009, 09:39:38 pm
Cheers Robin I'll give him a yell  :happy2:

I should have some LED updates this week too  :wink:
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2009, 09:43:21 pm »
Quote from: SteveP on April 26, 2009, 09:41:29 pm
Quote from: Greenouse on April 26, 2009, 09:39:38 pm
Cheers Robin I'll give him a yell  :happy2:

I should have some LED updates this week too  :wink:

Whats that then? do tell!  :party: With regard the LED's Im sure it's a Vagcom job as all that needs to be done is disabling the 'Bulb Out' feature.
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2009, 09:51:08 pm »
^^^ Agreed, like most things with VAGCOM I am sure it's possible but I thought about it after our discussion yesterday and while I could live without it for the sake of a bit of work with my soldering iron and some resistors I would rather have it enabled.  :happy2:
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #23 on: April 27, 2009, 09:15:50 am »
Quote from: Greenouse on April 26, 2009, 09:43:21 pm
Whats that then? do tell!  :party: With regard the LED's Im sure it's a Vagcom job as all that needs to be done is disabling the 'Bulb Out' feature.

The bulb out feature cannot be turned off, only the rear light clusters command can be switched to LED to stop the bulb out light coming on.

The front facing lights are still checked by the feature for blown/incorrect bulbs


If you measure the resistance between the std bulb then add a resistor of the same strenght minus the resistance of the LED bulb it'll work fine.
The LED resistance wil be sod all anyway

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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #24 on: April 27, 2009, 10:49:06 am »
Quote from: NotNormal on April 27, 2009, 09:15:50 am

The bulb out feature cannot be turned off, only the rear light clusters command can be switched to LED to stop the bulb out light coming on.

The front facing lights are still checked by the feature for blown/incorrect bulbs.


....This can be switched off with VAS - My dealer did it for me.

My fogs have been replaced with Hella LED Daylight Running Lights with 3 bulbs per unit : -


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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #25 on: April 27, 2009, 10:59:17 am »
i'd be really interested in any bulb that will work in the sidelight as the others have been changed and now there so white compared with side lights yellow  :sad:
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2009, 11:39:30 am »
Quote from: tomoc2003 on April 27, 2009, 10:59:17 am
i'd be really interested in any bulb that will work in the sidelight as the others have been changed and now there so white compared with side lights yellow  :sad:

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3090.0
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2009, 01:10:18 pm »
Cheers for the link am going to buy some of those  :happy2:
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2009, 01:15:19 pm »
i tried changing my sidelights but gave up, there very bloody hard to swap over!!
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Re: LED Bulbs?
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2009, 08:59:12 pm »
Got my LED's today  :happy2:

So after a little tinkering with some resistors and my soldering iron here's the result: -

Before (Philips Ice White bulbs): -



After: -






Next up the puddle lights and rear number plate  :happy2:
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