Hey guys

 

If like me, you've just got your O3 VRS and want to replace the incandescent bulbs with LED, here are a list of decent colour/brightness LED modules which fit into place. Where appropriate I've linked instructions on how to do the replacement (esp. fogs and front indicators)

 

Front indicators [instructions]

Link

 

Rear indicators

Link

 

Fog lights (x4 in the VRS) [instructions here and here]

Link

 

Sidelights (x4 required) [instructions]

Link

 

Trunk/cargo

Link

 

Reverse lights

Link

 

 

 

Mike.

My optician tells me my eyes are very good for my age and while I know my daylight distant vision is fine my short and night vision are not as good as they used to be and I am officially a grumpy old man.

 

With the latter aspect in mind I see a lot of vehicles fitted with non-standard lighting and apparently it is 'cool' to have headlights with a  blue tinge or very white (cold?) light and similar illuminating the rear number plate.

To my eyes excessively 'cold' lighting does not actually provide much real illumination of the road, or the number plate (they are virtually unreadable beyond 15 metres) compared to normal halogens.

Is it just me or do others experience this problem?

 

While I am griping I have to say that many LEDs fitted to cars are too bright especially on the rear, and brake lights in particular.

I think we have all sat behind a car at night with really bright LED eye-level brake lights on at the traffic lights.

The other aspect is the lack of thought in design of the rear cluster when the indicator light is lost in the bright brake lights. The older Passat with the indicator in the centre of the rear/brake light is particularly bad. Although that is not specifically a LED issue the brightness of LEDs can exacerbate the situation.

 

In daylight front LED indicators seem to be more directional, if you are in the right spot, usually head on they are fine, but at an angle (say when approached on roundabouts) they are particularly poor.

Similar situation as a pedestrian at a corner looking at LED equipped side mirror repeaters to see if an adjacent the car is turning in your direction, they do seem to be very directional and are either very bright or almost unnoticeable depending on your relative position.

 

A cautionary tale about the potential of LED headlights: 

My worst case of a blinding LED headlight was about midday on sunny Australian summer's day with a single bright light from half a kilometre away. Initially I thought it was a mirror reflecting sunlight but it was unusually steady and as I drew near I was astounded to see it was the front light of a bicycle. Must have been one of those off-road 2000 lumen jobs, but honestly I dread to think what the effect at night would be like.

 

Just saying that if an upgrade is performed without due consideration for others then you are a potential menace and you may even be pulled over and defected.

Edited 9 July, 20169 yr by Gerrycan

I know that as one ages, night vision is reduced, and if you're myopic then the effect is even further increased. 

 

It may well be that what you see as blinding, others don't. I know it's like this for me - lights at night seem brighter than they did 10 years ago!

Note, the above fog light bulbs; there are 4 on the vRS, but on RHD models, all 4 of the above bulbs won't fit (left most bulb has the washer bottle directly behind the bulb housing and only 30mm of space to play with).

 

For RHD, you'll want two of the ones above, and two of these for the outer bulbs;

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/High-quality-24V-DC10-30V-H11-Car-Led-fog-lamp-Auto-H11-Led-Bulb-Lamp-Light/403226_32697808201.html

 

As far as I've found they only come in 6000k, so will be slightly whiter than your stock 4200k DRL/Xenons.

Edited 27 August, 20169 yr by mabnz

I have the same rear indicator's, reverse & front side light bulbs as listed in the original 1st post & all work a treat, in-case anyone else was wondering to take the plunge. you won't regret it.

Edited 27 August, 20169 yr by BATVANVRS

UPDATES:

 

Really bright rear indicators: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs-No-Resistor-Amber-Yellow-3535-LED-BAU15S-7507-PY21W-1156PY-LED-Bulbs-For-Front-or/32727712174.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.4yUu6c

 

Brighter reversing bulbs: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2pcs-Error-Free-Super-Bright-15W-35-SMD-1156-P21W-7506-LED-Replacement-Bulbs-For-Euro/32758367030.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.4yUu6c

Edited 17 December, 20169 yr by mabnz

UPDATES:

 

Number plate

 

Note on front fog light bulbs

 

Headlights

I've noticed that the stock boarding lights in the mirrors are very weak, and I've found LEDs at superskoda.com. Has anyone ordered these or from another source?

Thanks/RL

Edited 4 January, 20179 yr by Riolux

Any suggestions for interior LED's that are small enough for the light housings?

Any suggestions for interior LED's that are small enough for the light housings?

I used ones like this, they fit OK.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290617035424

Any suggestions for interior LED's that are small enough for the light housings?

I have these for my interior, map lights in roof etc & glove-box, which fit perfectly.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-6-SMD-LED-Pure-White-LED-501-T10-W5W-Side-Light-bulbs-6000k-SUPER-BRIGHT-/370867129035?hash=item5659674acb:g:6ygAAOxywh1TBlvJ

 

as per this thread: post #22

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/304984-upgrade-vrs-interior-lights/

 

& these for interior boot lights

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/High-Power-4pcs-lot-T10-Canbus-Car-Led-Light-Error-Free-W5W-WY5W-Auto-Interior-License/2036929238.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.0.xWoGg0

 

as per this thread: post #6

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/413880-upgrading-boot-lighting/

Edited 12 January, 20179 yr by BATVANVRS

Thanks mate.

 

Just ordered 6 of those SMD bulbs for the interior, and the boot light upgrade is on its way already from Super Skoda :)

The boot lights from superskoda are really good. I wasn't overly impressed with the interior lights (I got a O3 interior bulb pack from LEDperf) but it's the right colour at least.

Edited 12 January, 20179 yr by mabnz

Any suggestions for the quality fanless 4300K LED fog lights, this seller doesn't count (couldn't ship the product).

Edited 30 January, 20179 yr by nrvous

On 04/01/2017 at 10:20, Riolux said:

I've noticed that the stock boarding lights in the mirrors are very weak, and I've found LEDs at superskoda.com. Has anyone ordered these or from another source?

Thanks/RL

Bought these for my Elegance. They are bright enough and are a huge improvement over the stock ones BUT they don't fit perfectly in the housing, they are missing a little bit of plastic that OEM ones have to make them perfectly fit. It's OK overall but you'll see a small gap of 3 or 4 millimeters when looking from under. I would never aim a high pressure water jet at them. Now two years later it's still OK. 

Edited 30 January, 20179 yr by mailme

21 hours ago, nrvous said:

Any suggestions for the quality fanless 4300K LED fog lights, this seller doesn't count (couldn't ship the product).

 

should be better off with MTEC super white 4350K halogens.

i have changed all my lights H7, H15, H8

On 30/01/2017 at 10:35, nrvous said:

Any suggestions for the quality fanless 4300K LED fog lights, this seller doesn't count (couldn't ship the product).

 

The was some LED bulbs for fog lights that aki78 recommend, search LED fog lights in the search tab/bar

 

The only other ones I can find are these

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Super-Bright-Car-Headlights-H7-LED-H8-H11-HB3-9005-HB4-9006-70W-7000lm-Auto-Front/32684222030.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.1.x1eJfB&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10068_10501_10503_10000032_119_10000025_10000029_430_10000028_10060_10062_10056_10055_10000062_10054_10059_10099_10000022_10000012_10103_10000015_10102_10096_10000018_10000019_10000056_10000059_10052_10053_10107_10050_10106_10051_10000053_10000007_10000050_10084_10083_10118_10119_10000047_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10115_10116_10000041_10000044_10078_10079_10000038_429_10073_10000035_10120_10121-10051_10503_10501_10119_10116,searchweb201603_2,afswitch_1_afChannel,single_sort_2_default&btsid=b06c745a-3958-418b-b828-2b13e7843f4d

 

or even cheaper

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/TCX-Super-Bright-H7-LED-Car-Headlights-H1-H3-H8-H11-HB3-9005-HB4-9006-Auto/32655482284.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.142.92bPBO&s=p&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10068_10501_10503_10000032_119_10000025_10000029_430_10000028_10060_10062_10056_10055_10000062_10054_10059_10099_10000022_10000012_10103_10000015_10102_10096_10000018_10000019_10000056_10000059_10052_10053_10107_10050_10106_10051_10000053_10000007_10000050_10084_10083_10118_10119_10000047_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10115_10116_10000041_10000044_10078_10079_10000038_429_10073_10000035_10120_10121,searchweb201603_2,afswitch_1_afChannel,single_sort_2_default&btsid=b06c745a-3958-418b-b828-2b13e7843f4d

Edited 31 January, 20179 yr by BATVANVRS

12 hours ago, BATVANVRS said:

 

The was some LED bulbs for fog lights that aki78 recommend, search LED fog lights in the search tab/bar

 

The only other ones I can find are these

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Super-Bright-Car-Headlights-H7-LED-H8-H11-HB3-9005-HB4-9006-70W-7000lm-Auto-Front/32684222030.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.1.x1eJfB&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10068_10501_10503_10000032_119_10000025_10000029_430_10000028_10060_10062_10056_10055_10000062_10054_10059_10099_10000022_10000012_10103_10000015_10102_10096_10000018_10000019_10000056_10000059_10052_10053_10107_10050_10106_10051_10000053_10000007_10000050_10084_10083_10118_10119_10000047_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10115_10116_10000041_10000044_10078_10079_10000038_429_10073_10000035_10120_10121-10051_10503_10501_10119_10116,searchweb201603_2,afswitch_1_afChannel,single_sort_2_default&btsid=b06c745a-3958-418b-b828-2b13e7843f4d

 

or even cheaper

 

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/TCX-Super-Bright-H7-LED-Car-Headlights-H1-H3-H8-H11-HB3-9005-HB4-9006-Auto/32655482284.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.142.92bPBO&s=p&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_3_10065_10068_10501_10503_10000032_119_10000025_10000029_430_10000028_10060_10062_10056_10055_10000062_10054_10059_10099_10000022_10000012_10103_10000015_10102_10096_10000018_10000019_10000056_10000059_10052_10053_10107_10050_10106_10051_10000053_10000007_10000050_10084_10083_10118_10119_10000047_10080_10082_10081_10110_10111_10112_10113_10114_10115_10116_10000041_10000044_10078_10079_10000038_429_10073_10000035_10120_10121,searchweb201603_2,afswitch_1_afChannel,single_sort_2_default&btsid=b06c745a-3958-418b-b828-2b13e7843f4d

Thanks for the info but both these bulbs are not 4300K nor fanless.

On 1/30/2017 at 23:35, nrvous said:

Any suggestions for the quality fanless 4300K LED fog lights, this seller doesn't count (couldn't ship the product).

 

Why do you want fanless? I used these in my outer cornering lights, they have no fans. No fans == less lumens, nothing to cool the LED down. Note, they aren't 4300k. I suspect you might have trouble finding 4300k ones. I've only seen 6000k, red, and 3000k (yellow).

Edited 4 February, 20179 yr by mabnz

On ‎04‎.‎02‎.‎2017 at 12:23, mabnz said:

 

Why do you want fanless? I used these in my outer cornering lights, they have no fans. No fans == less lumens, nothing to cool the LED down. Note, they aren't 4300k. I suspect you might have trouble finding 4300k ones. I've only seen 6000k, red, and 3000k (yellow).

 

I thought fanless were more reliable for car but they are hard to find so you can suggest 4300K with fan also

I know it isn't what you want but these are really cool ;-) 6000 lumens total! They come in 5000K..

 

http://www.vleds.com/shop-bulb-numbers/h11/h11-ultra-lmz.html

Edited 6 February, 20179 yr by mabnz

Hi Guys, 

 

I'm kind of a newbie, having a Combi 1.6 diesel. I'm going to replace my interior bulbs to LED (front, rear ceiling & trunk). My question is that I have W5W T10 LEDs, but not "canbus error free" versions. Will the computer show an error message if I use "non error free" bulbs inside and in the boot?

 

My next question is about replacing the outside side mirror lamps to LEDs (I can hardly see any light when I get out from the car). Is there an instruction how to do that? 

 

Thank you in advance for your help

 

 

Just now, z0l1 said:

Hi Guys, 

 

I'm kind of a newbie, having a Combi 1.6 diesel. I'm going to replace my interior bulbs to LED (front, rear ceiling & trunk). My question is that I have W5W T10 LEDs, but not "canbus error free" versions. Will the computer show an error message if I use "non error free" bulbs inside and in the boot?

 

My next question is about replacing the outside side mirror lamps to LEDs (I can hardly see any light when I get out from the car). Is there an instruction how to do that? 

 

Thank you in advance for your help

 

 

 

You do not need Canbus leds for the interior as they are not monitored by the system. The only exception is if you plan on changing the leds behind the red covers in the front doors, I believe they are monitored.

On 2017. 02. 12. at 10:11, ahenners said:

 

You do not need Canbus leds for the interior as they are not monitored by the system. The only exception is if you plan on changing the leds behind the red covers in the front doors, I believe they are monitored.

 

One more question please  The bulbs under the red covers in the front doors are not lighting at all (I have not touched them yet at all, they are factory default).

I think they should, when I open the doors (I have KESSY), but they don't. I tried to switch Leaving Home / Coming home functions on/off, but same result: no light.

I have no error message on the CAR menu. Is there a way to activate them? I looking for something like this.

Hi Guys,

As some have mentioned, the exterior mirror/puddle lights are pretty poor. 

 

Has anyone actually replaced them? If so how easy to change without breaking the mirror glass?

 

Ive seen lots of different sized LED 501's, which LED's are actually white, not blue/purple, but also fit the housing?

 

Also, are the puddle lights monitored by the cars bulb blown system? What bulbs has anyone used?

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

 

 

Edited 10 September, 20178 yr by daykes1