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Offline saadn

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Led number plate bulbs
« on: December 06, 2012, 09:07:02 am »
Does anybody know any good quality led bulbs for the number plate? I bought some of ebay about 5 weeks but one has begun flicker constantly. I tried looking on ebay for oem led lamp as well (1K8 943 021 C) but couldn't find anything.

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2012, 09:44:04 am »
I bought some too and they arent as bright as i expected them to be.

On my polo i had these ones

http://www.veedubmachine.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=348_353_96&products_id=1305

DAMN they were bright! veedubmachine have great customer service too   :happy2:


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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2012, 02:06:18 pm »
I bought some too and they arent as bright as i expected them to be.

On my polo i had these ones

http://www.veedubmachine.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=348_353_96&products_id=1305

DAMN they were bright! veedubmachine have great customer service too   :happy2:



Did they last long and to change them, do you need purchase the whole set again or are the bulbs changeable?

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2012, 02:12:15 pm »
I bought some too and they arent as bright as i expected them to be.

On my polo i had these ones

http://www.veedubmachine.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=348_353_96&products_id=1305

DAMN they were bright! veedubmachine have great customer service too   :happy2:



Did they last long and to change them, do you need purchase the whole set again or are the bulbs changeable?

I had them for around 8 months. I sold them with the car ( stupid decision  :ashamed: )

they arent changeable bulbs, if some of them were to pop or blow then yes you would need to order a set again.

I had my car jet wash cleaned all the time and they never messed up  :smiley:


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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2012, 06:21:22 pm »
^^^I've gone for them and they seem to work fine. Much brighter than the festoon type which lasted me a year.

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2012, 06:53:15 pm »
I was just replacing my faulty leds with the original bulbs and unfortunately when I was pushing the holder back in I must have applied a bit too much force :/
The whole unit got pushed into the bumper lol. How do I get it out? And also, how do you install lights on the link that vw55raz sent?
« Last Edit: December 06, 2012, 07:29:40 pm by saadn »

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2012, 06:56:56 pm »
^^^I've gone for them and they seem to work fine. Much brighter than the festoon type which lasted me a year.

any pictures at night mate?

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2012, 07:08:41 pm »
Will try to get one tomorrow.

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2012, 07:22:40 pm »
See post #23 for my LED plate lights. I definately rate them and they are bright. Don't know how to retrieve your pushed in light though! I can stick a pic up here if you like or see the thread below:
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,56920.15.html

Got my lights from this thread: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,51319.0.html

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2012, 07:31:02 pm »
See post #23 for my LED plate lights. I definately rate them and they are bright. Don't know how to retrieve your pushed in light though! I can stick a pic up here if you like or see the thread below:
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,56920.15.html

Got my lights from this thread: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,51319.0.html



Car looks nice mate.

The links don't work on that other thread; I've ordered the other lights from the 2nd post on this.

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2012, 07:34:33 pm »
Cool. Enjoy! Definately gives the car a lovely look.
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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2012, 11:26:09 pm »
Quite expensive at £26. But at the end of the day you do pay for quality (most of the time)  :grin:

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2012, 02:38:16 pm »
Quite expensive at £26. But at the end of the day you do pay for quality (most of the time)  :grin:

Mine were £20 when I got them with Free PnP. not that much difference but for £20 it was worth a go.

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Re: Led number plate bulbs
« Reply #14 on: December 07, 2012, 08:29:12 pm »
I bought some for around £26 off a company as recommended on one thread on the forum.  They were ridiculously bright, I had comments from people who had been driving behind me that they couldn't read the number plate because of the glare from the LED's.  I ended up cutting each 12V feed and banging a resistor in each line which toned them down a bit.  Just about right now.  :happy2: