Ive fitted led numberplate bulbs but now has the dash bulb out message. I have read you can code them out or use resistors to solve this problem.

Anyone done this or know where to buy the resistors so the bulb out function will still work?

I found it easier just to buy no error code LEDs, cheap enough on Ebay.

Are those for the 501 bulb replacement as i know there are festoon bulbs too

I've just typed in 'error free 501 LED', 17.000 matches :)

I thought all leds brought up the error on dash as they are lower voltage

I think you are mistaken, I have used in several cars with no problems. At the end of the day they are cheap enough and IF they display error, you can return them as per Ebay policy and get your hard earned refunded. Win-Win?

Just. Code. The. Freaking. LEDs.

Just. Code. The. Freaking. LEDs.

If people knew how to code the 'Freakin LEDs' they would do it. Is it not possible to keep posts civil please? :)

 

Jos ihmiset tietäisivät, miten koodata "Freakin LEDs'  Eikö ole mahdollista pitää viestiä miellyttävä please?

Simple, this has been discussed a million times here - it never works to use CANBUS LEDs on this car and it is very easy to find someone to code the LEDs for you if you don't know.

But ...Seriously? You got offended by that? :)

Touchy, touchy...

Not touchy, just try to be polite, manners are free and can buy a lot. All the best.

Not touchy, just try to be polite, manners are free and can buy a lot. All the best.

You trying to teach me about manners when you arrogantly replied you found 17.000 results when searching on eBay for LEDs?

...Riiiiiiight :)

Happy new year to you too... :)

No arrogance inferred nor intended, merely trying to assist a forum member who was asking for advice/assistance and highlighting that there is a vast choice.

If anyone has interpreted offence in my post I apologise.

 

I wish you a peaceful, happy and prosperous 2017 :)

For OP: Just find someone with VCDS or OBDeleven in your area and ask them to do the coding - takes literally 5 mins to do and it is the safest way:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/299424-octavia-iii-vcds-adaptations-tried-and-tested/#entry3772564

Problem with resistors and error cancelling LEDs is that they tend to run warm and can melt the bulb enclosure or even worse, the wires from the plug.

This is why I tend to avoid CANBUS LEDs and instead recommend the coding - also trying to help.

Not saying that all CANBUS LEDs are bad, but... YMMV. Most are cheap Chinese made and you risk them warming too much.

I don't understand this fascination for LED bulbs, what's wrong with the standard bulbs? If it isn't broken, don't fix it.  

Some people prefer the nice white light of an LED @ 4000/5000 or higher rated lux. Most festoons are yellowish at approx 3000k or lower.

The big issue I find is cars that were never intended to have LED on the number plates, drive round with LED's and some IMO are so white or over bright, blatantly displaying white light to road users behind but that opens a whole different argument.

Edited 30 December, 20169 yr by Defenderben

I get that people want the LED number plate lights, I have them. What I don't get is that people are happy to take a fairly complicated modern car that they must have paid (or be paying) a fair amount for and try to fool it into thinking it has normal bulbs by sticking some unknown resistor (or a bulb with one built in) in the canbus circuit.

 

There is a small but distinct possibility that it if it fails it could take the canbus system with it.

 

If there was no alternative, I might understand, but there are factory Skoda LED number plate lights and there is a proper way to tell the car it has LEDs, If they are fitted the correct way they have good lenses to point the light onto the number plate, again, how it is done in the factory. All well documented with a simple search. Like HERE,  HERE or HERE

 

To do this is not that much more expensive and certainly cheaper than if it goes wrong. What worked in previous generations of cars does not necessarily apply. This is the first era that cars have the built-in ability to run LED lights properly why not use it?

Edited 30 December, 20169 yr by flybynite

Wasn't aware of it :)

OEM LED license plate lights:  3AF 943 021A

 

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.X+3AF+943+021A.TRS0&_nkw=+3AF+943+021A&_sacat=0

Or you can get the actual Skoda ones from somewhere like HERE . They come in a Skoda branded parts bag with instructions

 

Around a fiver each, which is less than some are paying for cheap Chinese canbus-fudging LEDs

I have the genuine Skoda LEDs - you replace the whole assembly and simply coded them to have the correct brightness and not throw the errors.

They look just about right and I also agree with the opinion on all these overbright LEDs you see in some license plates. In some cases they are so bright you can barely see the plate.

Edited 31 December, 20169 yr by Jaco2k

Just get a friendly vcds owner to code them out.

Easier than the resistor option.