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Change halogen headlights to xenon drl headlights

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44 minutes ago, Ankur said:

It is available in India from skoda dealer or you can purchase from http://www.superskoda.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-III/Lightning/

In this case do I need any other coding or replacement of  CECM / BCM or any other type 

 

Those are bi-xenon headlights with LED DRL.

 

At the very least you should install auto-levelling as without it you will cause glare to other road uses as it won't be possible to adjust the headlight range when carrying passengers or other loads.

On 30/10/2016 at 18:56, LiamC93 said:

By the sounds of it. Thanks lads.

Any good bulbs to improve night time driving and are white in appearance nd road legal nd dont blind other oncoming drivers nothing worse ????

I can reccommend Ring Xenon +130% https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Xenon-Brighter-Headlight-RW3377/dp/B016OQPNUA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488464192&sr=8-1&keywords=ring+xenon

for the dip beam. But not so much available upgrade wise for the H15 in the main beams.

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Been a while but wanted to post pic of my Octavia elegance -vrs replica

 

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14 hours ago, langers2k said:

 

Those are bi-xenon headlights with LED DRL.

 

At the very least you should install auto-levelling as without it you will cause glare to other road uses as it won't be possible to adjust the headlight range when carrying passengers or other loads.

ok. Auto leveling would required modification in ECM / BCM ? right?

3 hours ago, Ankur said:

ok. Auto leveling would required modification in ECM / BCM ? right?

 

It would need an AFS module with level sensors adding and probably coding the CAN gateway and BCM. I'm not familiar enough the MQB platform to give out specifics but to start you should compare autoscans of cars with and without factory xenons :)

7 hours ago, LiamC93 said:

 

That depends what you mean by legit.

 

If you mean road legal, then no as they won't meet ECE regs for a number of reason. The most obvious are:

- They take a H-based xenon bulb rather than a proper D-based xenon bulb

- They have no provision for auto-levelling as required for xenons over 2000lm

- No E-mark or ECE approval markings

 

There is loads of light above the cutoff on the low beams, they will definitely cause glare to other roads users and finally they also appear to be LHD only so no good in UK/Ireland.

 

I would definitely avoid them...

  • 3 years later...

Hi.

I changed the headlights with bixenon without leds. I currently have bixenon with DRL LED. I have installed an additional led module but it is still dead. Can you tell me what to change in the adaptation? I also know that to illuminate the interior of the lamp (bulb W5W) I need to bring new wires with bortenz - one to each headlight. Now I would like only led to work LED. Later I will take care of wiring and powering the W5W bulb.

On 03/03/2017 at 06:50, langers2k said:

 

It would need an AFS module with level sensors adding and probably coding the CAN gateway and BCM. I'm not familiar enough the MQB platform to give out specifics but to start you should compare autoscans of cars with and without factory xenons :)

 

Assuming the BCM can be programmed - I'd have to dig through my emails but I was in contact with someone from here a few years ago about this who had retrofitted Xenons on a MK3.  Dependent on a number or series of numbers in a module on the BCM when using VAGCom (and maybe some other code readers) depends on whether you can code the BCM for Xenons.  My BCM could have been programmed.

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