A word of warning here – even the londoncolour eBay kits which have been successful for Octavia owners will fry the BCM. The igniters must surge power back to the BCM when they trigger.

 

I installed the HID kit and coded with VAG-COM & it worked for a few days, then the driver's side indicator came on constant even with the ignition off & the car locked. I bought a replacement second-hand BCM and got help from a forum member to copy the exact coding across as VAG-COM can't see everything.

 

As I'm in the process of building a complete wiring loom, fuse and relay box, etc. for my MGB GT restoration, it occurred to me to use a relay to trigger the HID kit on the Skoda.

 

A quick search on eBay turned up this pre-made loom: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261048165322

 

A bit of extra modification was required to extend the earth to reach the driver's side earthing point behind the headlight. To trigger the relay, I tapped the headlight wiring harness, plus I added 50W 6ohm resistors across the original wiring so the BCM doesn't flag the bulb-out notification.

 

The pins for the halogen headlight loom are as follows – these are for the passenger's side as the wire colours are different on the driver's side:

 

Pin 5, brown, earth

Pin 6, yellow & black with blue ribs, dipped beam

Pin 8, white & black, main beam

Pin 4, yellow with black ribs, DRL

 

Using a relay and resistors means the BCM only ever sees the resistor and assumes it's a halogen bulb. The HID circuit is then independent from the car's main loom & fused accordingly. I've had it fitted for a month or so now & using the car daily without issues.

Still waiting on some photos, and a how to

Still waiting on some photos, and a how to

 

How much more info do you need? I gave the details, exact pin numbers & a link to the loom I used

 

The way I hooked everything up has been trouble free for around 8 months now. Here are some photos for reference...

 

The ballasts are tucked in either side of the grill, with everything else routed (relatively) neatly and secured with cable ties. The earth is the capped nut under the washer bottle filler neck, so I extended the cable to use that as I wanted to use an existing earthing point. I guess I could have earthed from the fuse box, thinking about it.

 

Cheers,

Matt.

Bit the built, going down to the place mentioned we sell hids , and they will fit them with resistors, £120 all in 

Just for piece of mind, can the high beam be upgraded to HIDs as well???? even though they might be used as daylight running lights on the FL 

Just for piece of mind, can the high beam be upgraded to HIDs as well???? even though they might be used as daylight running lights on the FL

Don't bother. Xenon's do not like being quickly cycled I.e. in main beams.

I changed original high beam bulbs to Osram Nightbreaker Lasers.

Just for piece of mind, can the high beam be upgraded to HIDs as well???? even though they might be used as daylight running lights on the FL 

 

 

I don't think anyone does H15 HID bulbs – due to their dual purpose nature, I doubt they'll be available at all.

 

I had SMD LED bulbs for the main beam / DRL H15 bulbs with resistors inline across both circuits. I ended up going back to halogen "xenon match" H15 bulbs as, whilst the DRLs were a nice bright white, the main beam suffered as the LEDs could provide sufficient light projection.