help with lights

[jebby80]

hi all can someone provide me with where i can get some led sidelights, led numberplate lights and a hid kit that works with my octavia vrs 57 plate?? thanks in advance

[silver1011]

The use of LED bulbs can be very much hit and miss.

Your Octavia is fitted with a CANBUS system which monitors the current that passes through the bulbs and alerts the driver of a failure through a light/message on the dashboard when the current is disrupted/bulb fails.

Replacing the standard bulbs with LED's (which pull much less current) fools the system into thinking the bulb isn't working which results in the 'bulb out' warning being permanently displayed.

There are lots of sellers that advertise 'CANBUS friendly' LED bulbs that still do not work so you need to do your homework.

There are plenty of threads on the use of LED bulbs and the best ones to use, you just need to do a search using the search box at the top of the screen.

HID's are also a hot topic, again plenty of discussion on here, I'll find some threads for you...

http://www.briskoda....s/page__hl__led

http://www.briskoda...._1#entry2386224

Edited 9 March, 2012 by silver1011

[wilson323f]

I always use hids4u never had a problem with there canbus leds ive had led sidelights and number plate bulbs for 2years without having to replace them. and a hid kit from ebay with canbus cancelors connected to them without any trouble.

[jebby80]

cheers guys can you tell me what sizes the number plate bulbs are? i know the sidelights are 501 and the headlights h7 is this correct?

[jebby80]

anyone??

[Simon TDI Sport]

I've just purchased these from flea bay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170638161738?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_2575wt_932.

[jebby80]

cheers for that mate do they fit ok as some say 38mm??

[Simon TDI Sport]

Yes fit perfect. took 2 minuets to fit.

[wilson323f]

Hey the number plate lights are 38mm and the low beam is h7 and high beam is h1 atleast on mine it is