MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: nathangallo on February 24, 2013, 12:28:42 am

Title: Sidelight bulbs
Post by: nathangallo on February 24, 2013, 12:28:42 am

Fitted bulbs today and they only stay o for like 5 seconds then go off?? Anyone had this before?

Title: Re: Sidelight bulbs
Post by: Andy on February 24, 2013, 08:29:53 am

Did you fit led bulbs- if you get the wrong ones they do that as the engine  needs to be running for them to work but you can get some led bulbs that work  like the original ones

Title: Re: Sidelight bulbs
Post by: nathangallo on February 24, 2013, 08:46:45 am

Ye they were led ones should I just wait to see if they come back on?

Title: Re: Sidelight bulbs
Post by: sean76 on February 24, 2013, 04:19:32 pm

Maybe try turning them round so the contacts are correct.just a thought.

  cheers sean

Title: Re: Sidelight bulbs
Post by: chrisr763 on February 24, 2013, 04:32:25 pm

When this happened to me, the way to fix it was to buy a resistor kit. Worked a treat  :happy2:

Link:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/XTEC-LED-LOAD-RESISTOR-KIT-FOR-W5W-501-T10-5w-LEDS-/271051019648?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3f1be65580