The LED Lights Thread...

[marTTyn]

SHAZAM!!

[VRS-Powered]

Pics of my interior lights....

[seboni121]

Loads better

[Stu vRS]

Mine are now installed, will take a picture when it goes dark!

[Turbo Dezzel zz]

nice to see the interior lights at night time 1st time for me

[marTTyn]

Thought i might as well continue on this thread...

I have today done some more lights!

I did the h7s from Vrs-Powered-

And i did some LED number plate lights, uploading pics now...

[marTTyn]

First things first, we want those old yellow bulbs out of the number plate lights right!?

Lets assume you are in fact super cool, you agree and you wish to continue... Please read on...

Start off by undoing the two screws in the bulb holder casing with your T10 torx driver...

I found it easier to remove the housing from the wiring, just pinch the two tabs on the connector and pull... heave-ho!

You will notice these arent any old led bulbs, they need extra resistors so that the on board computer canbus system will see some resistance and assume there is still a regular bulb there...

Now because of the resistors, this will cause extra heat, i bought a set with heat sinks on the resistors, just because we have a plastic housing!

So... easy job, one out one in!

Again these are polarity sensetive, so trail and error on installation, although i like the odds of 50/50!

Replace the wiring connector, housing, and the two screws and take a gulp of tea... then do it again for the second one!

I have left the sidelights on for about 3hours on the drive now, and no heat transfer issues, going to keep an eye on them for a little while longer and pop one out just to check.

[marTTyn]

Oh... And no error messages...

[fabia55]

i logged in just to see those pictures, very white, would have been good to do before and after as its a bit difficult to see what difference they've made

thanks very much for sharing

and the interior led's, do u think thy'll need esisteros, as led's are lower power cconsumption

Edited 1 September, 2011 by fabia55

[marTTyn]

The first shot is a 50/50... Right side photo is the Ultra bulb, left side photo is original bulb!

Definately need resistors on the numberplates, although they still light up without them, you would have errors on the dash.

Edit- Just read you asked interior, these dont need resistors, only external lighting need them!

Edited 1 September, 2011 by marTTyn

[32KOFDATA]

Regarding led life after having them in my interior and exterior for over two years I've come to the conclusion that even though they can outlast standard bulbs sometimes they can just go bad just out of the blue. Either die or dim or strobe.

[fabia55]

do the interior led's gradually dim until eventually totally off like normal bulbs when you close the door

Edited 1 September, 2011 by fabia55

[VRS-Powered]

do the interior led's gradually dim until eventually totally off like normal bulbs when you close the door

Mine just go off

These pictures are from when I changed my headlight bulbs...

OEM :

Ultra :

[g_tee]

MarTTyn - where did you get those exterior LED bulbs from?

Very interested!

Wonder if the same bulbs are in the puddle lights on my Octy. Mmmmm full LED's!

[marTTyn]

Theses are the exact ones i ordered...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290602060572?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

[marTTyn]

Oh and puddle lights iirc dont need resistors

[marTTyn]

do the interior led's gradually dim until eventually totally off like normal bulbs when you close the door

Mine just go off

Mine still dim gradually after led install :|

[g_tee]

Theses are the exact ones i ordered...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290602060572?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

You sir are a gent.

Think I'll get all mine from here as he's doing free posting too! lovely stuff.

[marTTyn]

Forget to add, after abou 3.5hrs i removed one of the housings,

the heatsink was warm but i dont think these would get too hot to cause any damage to the housing.

[g_tee]

Would have to be pretty scorching hot to do any damage to the housings I would have thought.

[32KOFDATA]

It will never be an issue and trust me when I say my car during this summer has been baked for hours and hours over a period of three months under +40C and no led issues yet.

[seboni121]

Well just ordered the lot, for both fabia's, 6 w5w , 2 t10 and the p21w DRLS and I've just seen the DRLS on a superb they are spot on pure White light so looking forward to it now

[g_tee]

Just got my covers off so I can measure up my lights properly (Don't want to order and find I've bought ones that are all useless)

Word of warning kids, them light bulbs get VERY hot, as I've just found out the hard way

[seboni121]

Just got my covers off so I can measure up my lights properly (Don't want to order and find I've bought ones that are all useless)

Word of warning kids, them light bulbs get VERY hot, as I've just found out the hard way

Which bulbs get hot

[g_tee]

Well they all do, silly me put a finger on the longer interior ones to try and get them out.

Promptly burnt a finger doing so.

Have left it 10 minutes to cool down, going to fish them out now so I can get an order in and hopefully get them posted out today ready for tomorrow. I've got quite a big project doing tomorrow.