+1 for Philips Blu-vision. They may have a blue coating, but give off a white light, not blue. They compliment the HID whiteness very well.

I've tried a few different types of LED sidelight bulbs, and have never been able to get them to last for more than a few weeks before either burning out, or flickering then failing.

I have had the Philips Blu-Vision W5W FILAMENT bulbs in for months now without any problem, and these are under a fiver.

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item2c62189984

Mike

Just fitted these in swmbo's Golf GT and they match the Ring Xenon Max dipped beam perfectly. I did have a spot of bother when one of the LED bulbs fell in to the light cluster - unlike the Octavia's headlights which are removable in a couple of minutes, to remove the Golf lights you have to take off the entire grill and front bumper........

UPDATE:

LED bulbs now permanently removed, and Blue Vision filament bulbs installed permanently. After 3 days the bulb failure light came on as soon as the ignition was switched on, so not bothering any more.

Funny thing though:- this has only happened on the 08 plate estate, the ones I put in the 54 plate hatch on the same day are not showing any errors at all. must be a different set up on the canbus...........

Mike

Hi Mike,

my 09 plate FL has had the LEDs (from my previous link) in for 6 weeks now without any error warnngs...you may want to have a VCDS owner have a look to see if theres something strange going on with your car's ECU?

Steve

oh..."After 3 days the bulb failure light came on as soon as the ignition was switched on" was this with the blue vision bulbs?

Edited 29 May, 201214 yr by o_ptic

The solution for white sidelights are GP thunder standard w5w 8000K (really 5000K) bulbs. They are much like the philips bluevision but more blue tinted, the light they give out is very white. Don't know if you could source these somewhere in UK, but Im meaning these ones:

http://www.katuauto.fi/product_info.php?products_id=246&osCsid=77cfead93259d53f6df1b0f0b4be7c0e

Pretty much everyone has these in Finland . No errors as they are standard bulbs.

I've been running mine with (ebay) LED bulbs since Feb with no problems. I've been using them a lot since then because the weather has been so dire.

It's made a huge difference to the rear lights, they appear twice as bright and bigger. (had one partly fail but they're easy replaced.)

The W5W's are useful to have handy, I've just fitted ont to a boot light when the bulb went.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/227892-improve-sidelights/

Looks like the Blue vision filament is the way to go here for longer lasting better look.

Hi all i've been running the LEDs from the link below since september I also have these in the rear tail lights.... I have the LED Licence plate bulbs and full LED interior... HID Xenons and DRLs all from the company below... I have purchased bulbs and kits from these guys for the past 5 years and not had a single problem... No warning lights

http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/501-error-free-8-smd-led-sidelights-bulbs-1/

I will upload a full set of pics of the lights if this helps later this evening...

That would be great thanks Priyesh

I hope the above pics help the arent great due to weather and time of day will look to get some daytime snaps up soon too

Looks like the Blue vision filament is the way to go here for longer lasting better look.

+1

I've had these installed in mine for the best part of six weeks now & they produce a much whiter light than the standard filament bulbs.

All without any LED error/polarity problems too.

Nice pics

I think that it is illegal to have both DRL and sidelights on at the same time.

+1

I've had these installed in mine for the best part of six weeks now & they produce a much whiter light than the standard filament bulbs.

All without any LED error/polarity problems too.

Have you got the main headlight bluevisions or just sidelights? If headlights what's the light like? Better/worse than standard?

Have you got the main headlight bluevisions or just sidelights? If headlights what's the light like? Better/worse than standard?

Hello,

I've just got the sidelights but they seem to go quite well with the Osram Nightbreaker Plus headlights which I have too. They're a good buy as well IMHO..

Regards,

David.

Edited 18 July, 201213 yr by ethel

Here you have a picture of the GP thunder 5000K ones alongside stock Xenons, normal W5W's, no errors, no hassle. VERY much whiter than equivalent Philips.

Pretty nice match, if you ask me

I've tried 3 different sets of led's from different suppliaers and each time they have gone wrong...constant flickering, lights on dashboard and the actual bulb melting into two !

So until somebody recommends a fault free set I shall give them a miss....

I have got a set of the Phillips blue vision in, and my honest opinion is.....

They look no different to the oem sidelights I took out ! They still look Yellow to me, but then again I have got hid upgrades on my vrs. Perhaps if they were used with the standard halogens they would not look so yellow.....

I also wanted to replace the ageing worn and tired inner lighting. Already replaced the festoons with LED variants, but the results were not that good (too blue for my taste) I also ordered these for the reading lights.

I messed up though, and ordered 3 packs. So that's 30 LEDs! They showed up yesterday. Replaced the interior W5W bulbs and was well pleased, very white light. So impressed that tonight I'm taking out the middle interior festoon LEDs that are just too blueish, and I'm going to fabricate 2 of the new LEDs into the holder.

Also did the boot lights, very white and even though they are "round" bulbs and should have worse spreading of light then the 1 sided LEDs, the boot is very brightly lit now.

Finally replaced the sidelights. I've got Philips Daytime DRL 4's at the front. Match that white LED colour perfectely. Sadly my dipped beam is very very yellowish now (2 x Philips Xtreme Power's) so I'm going to start sourcing an OEM xenon set

For the record, these are also very very good license plate lights! Very white and no CANbus warning!

This is all on a older 2006 O2.

Edited 25 July, 201213 yr by Too Tall

I think that it is illegal to have both DRL and sidelights on at the same time.

Yes, it is. This link has all the details on requirements.