Not sure if its already been covered, but looking to change the DRL bulbs in my 1.8 tsi to a whiter light if that makes sense. Not wanting to go down the LED path with its associated canbus/warning light issues. I am in new zealand so any of the NZ owners know of any bulbs I can purchase locally? Also, how tricky a job is it.

Should have mentioned, its a FL model, 2012.

Its a very easy 15min job, but you will be struggling to find any bulbs. One option is MTEC:

http://www.hids-dire...te-xenon-bulbs/

http://www.hids-dire...s-382-p21w-12v/

some like them some dont. Pretty low light emission and quite bluish. Some overheating problems also reported.

Other than that, I have found these (not tested as no wolrdwide shipping):

http://www.ebay.com/...=item334fbda5b4

After these your options are pretty much limited to going LED way..

Edited 20 June, 201214 yr by Laars

Thanks for the links Laars. Too blue for my liking.

Are you sure that LEDs will trigger a CAN bus error? I know that number plate lights do, but I wonder if you might get away with these with LEDs fitted?

A blue bulb will produce a white light usually.. LED's will most probably produce an error. I have tried a couple of Canbus ones and gave up. If you get lucky, you can get BA15S Led's that don't throw error. New Octavia's are very picky on this.

What I ended up doing is to blue lamin-x my DRL/fog lights. They produce now white light permanently

So if I just try my luck and buy a few dfferent ones locally, is there a generic spec for the bulb size , connection etc that I need to look for?

Its the same bulb type as in your reverse light and turn signal lights. P21W.

Thanks Laars