I'm thinking of fitting DRLs and made a quick mock up pic. Your views would be welcome, or alternative suggestions.

To get them to sit straight on against the curve of the bumper, the black inserts will require a little butchery/modification, I've been looking for a complete unit to avoid me doing this, but there's not many options for my year and model available, that I could find anyway.

Any feedback would be welcome people

I'm thinking of fitting DRLs and made a quick mock up pic. Your views would be welcome, or alternative suggestions.

To get them to sit straight on against the curve of the bumper, the black inserts will require a little butchery/modification, I've been looking for a complete unit to avoid me doing this, but there's not many options for my year and model available, that I could find anyway.

Any feedback would be welcome people

Your number plate is wonky

Will look good flush against the bumper, looks odd with the gap

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Buy the genuine ones and get them coded to work...

All non-genuine LED DRL's look tacky / Halfords to me.

These are the only non-genuine LED DRL's I've seen that look OK...

Edited 17 March, 201313 yr by silver1011

Your number plate is wonky

Will look good flush against the bumper, looks odd with the gap

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Thats the last time I'm getting Halfords to make my private plates

Not sure what you mean about " flush with the bumper", do you mean lower down ?

Buy the genuine ones and get them coded to work...

All non-genuine LED DRL's look tacky / Halfords to me.

These are the only non-genuine LED DRL's I've seen that look OK...

Do you, or anyone, have a link to genuine Skoda DRL's for my model, I cant seem to find any on the net.

Those ones on the red car look ok, but not really doing it for me.

All non-genuine LED DRL's look tacky / Halfords to me.

This. Its a fact.

Thats the last time I'm getting Halfords to make my private plates

Not sure what you mean about " flush with the bumper", do you mean lower down ?

Sorry mate just realised how confusing my post was!

I meant higher, so they sit against the colour part of the bumper.

For the DRL's that were posted above you need the full fog light unit, which would be a bit expensive I think..

Not the cheapest option but the best looking by a long way.

Non-genuine (replica's) and you'll need to source the bulb holders / bulbs.

£100 for a pair...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SKODA-OCTAVIA-2009-ONWARDS-FRONT-FOG-LIGHT-LAMP-RIGHT-DRIVERS-SIDE-O-S-/350693667653?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Model%3AOctavia&hash=item51a6f8b345

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Not the cheapest option but the best looking by a long way.

Non-genuine (replica's) and you'll need to source the bulb holders / bulbs.

£100 for a pair...

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item51a6f8b345

Cheers for that.

These are good from Hella, they are super bright (same as merc OEM brightness) and they could be fitted behind the grille and holes drilled in the grille so they fit flush and look more professional. They can be brought in 5,6,7,8 LED chains. Just another option

http://www.myhellalights.com/index.php/default/daytime-running-lights/leday-flex-daytime-running-lights/

These are good from Hella, they are super bright (same as merc OEM brightness) and they could be fitted behind the grille and holes drilled in the grille so they fit flush and look more professional. They can be brought in 5,6,7,8 LED chains. Just another option

http://www.myhellali...running-lights/

Good suggestion, and well worth looking into. Thanks for that

Without wishing to hijack the thread, I am considering getting some for my '09 pre-facelift vRS (which I am hopefully picking up 2 weeks today). I am sure someone on here must have fitted some, so does anyone have any pics they can post or recommendations, please ??

When was the last time you used your front fog lights? Exactly!

See here for the cleanest (but not cheapest) but certainly the best looking / OEM solution...

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/264490-fabia-vrs-led-front-fog-into-octy-vrs/

(check out my link in post #2 for pictures)

Cheers silver, but they aren't exactly cheap and my new motor is not the FL, so I think mine will have the round front fogs won't it ??, and I don't have access to VCDS to sort out the CANBUS issues....are any of the cheaper aftermarket ones any good/compatible, without activating the "bulb-out" warning light ??

Edited 22 March, 201313 yr by phillip

The front fog lights on the facelift and pre-FL are identical so this option is possible on all MkII Octavia vRS's.

(It's actually more relevant on the pre-FL as the FL vRS already has LED DRL's as standard.)

I think your best (without looking too tacky) / most cost effective option will be the Hella ones that xpower linked to in post #11.

Or save up for a FL

I know it's down to personal taste (or lack of !!), but I think those Hella ones are hideous !!!!

However, I do like the ones on the red Octy shown above in post #5 from Spartacus, but they won't fit mine as there is no surround around the circular front fogs on the pre-FL !!!

I know it's down to personal taste (or lack of !!), but I think those Hella ones are hideous !!!!

However, I do like the ones on the red Octy shown above in post #5 from Spartacus, but they won't fit mine as there is no surround around the circular front fogs on the pre-FL !!!

The ones on the red car would be perfect for me apart from the bit that sticks out at the side, if it wasn't for that I would have them on the car in a flash. As for the Hellas, I'm still on the fence.

All non-genuine LED DRL's look tacky / Halfords to me.

What do you think about these then? (Note these are on a Roomster, but same fit)

Got them from Superbrightleds.com , have been using these Luxeon LEDs (in dual brightness variety and red colour) for several years now as tail/fog lamps as well on the Mk1 Superb.

Personally, I think paying £££s for DRLs when you already have the halogen ones fitted and it is just a bulb change is rather wasteful.

They look typically 'single LED' to me in that they are very directional.

Fitting them into housings designed for incandescent bulbs means you aren't benefitting from the reflective nature of the surounding lense.

I'd be more worried about putting them into the rear light clusters. I was sat behind an Astra a while back and he'd clearly retrofitted some LED bulbs to his brake / tail lights and they were woefully dim, again mainly down to the fact that they were lost in the space designed to be relfecting the light emitted from an incandescent bulb. I'd be interested to see some pictures of yours to see if they are any better than the standard set-up in terms of brightness / effectiveness

Maybe the photo doesn't do them justice but they don't look as bright as the factory standard / non-LED set-up?

You see loads of cars like the Roomy above fitted with single LEDs in place of sides etc. No point - they're not bright, can only be seen front directly in front of the car - they're the equivalent of those lights in your washer jets about 10 years ago (ie, they were crap and tacky even then!).

I see I touched a nerve here, not to worry, I also get upset browsing through hundreds of overpriced LEDs with miniscule power output. But we are talking a bit different animal here, these are actually 3x 2W peak power LEDs behind a 20mm lens, when they are lit the whole lens area appears as a single light surface.

My best advice is get a 3W/200lm Luxeon LED (check that it actually consumes 3W, even the LEDs I showed are marketed as 6W and they probably are...at 24V) and try looking at it from across the room. Wear dark glasses to do this. I do my research before buying them, and always test first against existing halogen.

Being 3W and 90 deg beam from a 20mm lens aperture, they are bright enough and light wide enough angle (wider than min DRL spec) and can be seen on a turn as well. And they do not look fugly like the multi-element contraptions when unlit, round lenses complement the rest of projector lamp shapes on the front very well.

I made a point of parking the car up with ignition on (left the Mrs in the car), ~20deg angle to road, and walking a few hundred m away on a sunny day. Still very visible. Photo is also on the same sunny day, though the camera had its own idea about the light level...

Stock halogen DRLs on current Skoda cars are way too bright, resulting in people using them being flashed at quite frequently. Yes, I did try them for about 3 hours and after 7th or 8th high beam flash from opposite lane (on a sunny day everyone thinks you have fogs on), I started looking for LED replacements.

Took me a while to find bright enough white LEDs though, still have not seen better ones than these when it comes to looks vs power output. Tough there are 10W+ multi-element monsters available, but they mostly scatter the light.

No intensity problems at all with rear, red LEDs, 3W Luxeon red LED is considerably brighter than stock 21W, the only requirement is that the tail lamp is not transparent, ie it is red, to provide good side scatter. I tried several other multi-element options on the Octy and Superb, and Luxeon single powerful element LEDs light the rear clusters best. Anything upwards of 90deg beam angle fills rear cluster fully, and there is enough intensity, including side areas (rear cluster face directs light there). Actually there was more than enough light on the low-power tail light setting, I had to fit a small resistor on the Octy, Superb worked out fine though tail lamps are still marginally brighter. Changing reversing lamps to LEDs is a bad idea though, as they have an angled light path through the cluster so most light is wasted.

I am not wed to any particlar website for LEDs and have used several ones in the past, but one good thing about superbrigthleds.com is that they quote lamp specs including current drawn at 12V and light output, both as intensity and volume (milicandelas and lumens). Makes picking decent replacements much easier.

On the Roomster, I use the (red version) LEDs shown only as the dual fogs + 5 brake light mod, so you still get 2 stock bulbs (and 2 LEDs+center stop light) at stop, and standard tail + dual LED fogs, On the Superb, I use dual intensity ones for 5x stop/ fog /tail.

LEDs light up much faster than bulbs when you stop.

My only collisions so far resulted in my cars rear-ended. On every car I owned so far, twice on the Octy (last one wrote Octy off, a mum in a hurry to pick her kid from a nursery forgot to look ahead at a junction... and parked in Octy's boot), hence fixed towbars + 5-brake light mod now, only one rear prang (loaded van went into rear of Mk1 Superb) due to my rapid braking, forced by car in front braking unreasonably), the rest just plain inattention/stupidity. If I could fit 100kW red lasers vaporizing numpties braking too late behind me, I would...

Edit: This is a 130deg Luxeon, even better for old style (Mk1 Octy/Superb) rear clusters.

Anyway, if you want to go ahead and spend £££s for a set of lamps that you already have fitted on the car, it is your wallet...

Edited 22 March, 201313 yr by dieselV6

Without wishing to hijack the thread, I am considering getting some for my '09 pre-facelift vRS (which I am hopefully picking up 2 weeks today). I am sure someone on here must have fitted some, so does anyone have any pics they can post or recommendations, please ??

Anybody ??

Anybody ??

Try the search function. I found this...

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/167281-blue-bullet-drl-version-2/page__hl__blue%20bullet%20drl

Stock halogen DRLs on current Skoda cars are way too bright, resulting in people using them being flashed at quite frequently. Yes, I did try them for about 3 hours and after 7th or 8th high beam flash from opposite lane (on a sunny day everyone thinks you have fogs on), I started looking for LED replacements.

I don't think it's their brightness that results in other people flashing, I think it's more the fact that they are confused and think they are fog lights.

I've never been dazzled by OEM DRL's, or front fog lights (used incorrectly during the day) for that matter.

I'd be interested to see some pictures of the rear LED's if you have any?