There are some posts here https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/504962-engine-bay-surprises/page/4/#findComment-5987804

but i didn't wat to add more because that Topic was for different reason.

I tried to find a dark area with no external lights and take some pictures from my new bulbs that i have installed,the spot isn't ideal but it's impossible to find a dark alley here to take photos.

The new bulbs are 2.5W and 5500K but the result is very different with the previoys ones.

I am standing upright in the driver's side and below

is how they look from the side.

Here, from closer distance.

To me look like a WWII A/A gun projector searching in the sky for hostile aircrafts. 😲

parking lights are meant to be all over as to be able to spot the car easily but these are very bright

2.5W LED is like 15-20W incandescent. You need something below 1W.

41 minutes ago, Papez said:

2.5W LED is like 15-20W

Average LEDs nowadays are 100lm per watt, so around 250lm halogen is equivalent to around 20lm/W, which is approximately 100lm for a W5W.

Not that crazy difference, just 2.5 times

23 minutes ago, Thefeliciahacker said:

halogen is equivalent to around 20lm/W,

W5W is not halogen. A standard Osram W5W has 50lm output, so 10lm/W

The light being sent out is very bright and seems to be pointing very high making them an absolute nuisance on the road, you're lucky no one has use a heavy hammer to rectify them.

The bulbs don't seem to be suitable for the light unit swap them for bulbs that are suited or better suited. As I put before the following is my trusted supplier and you can contact them for information and advice.

Classic Car LEDs. - https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/

Edited 21 January21 Jan by nta16

6 hours ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

WWII A/A gun projector searching in the sky for hostile aircrafts

What we call lighting up the tree tops.

3 hours ago, Papez said:

W5W is not halogen

I thought they were halogen-filled, my bad

Or, if you must have bright "white" lights have you seen these as an alternative. - https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/12961WVUB2/whitevision-ultra-conventional-interior-and-signalling

2 hours ago, nta16 said:

What we call lighting up the tree tops.

Some teens buy cheap and install in their cars chinese Xenon HID kits,the beam is so wrong aiming so high that blinds everyone and the phrase for them here in GR is ''he is lighting the balcony of the 2th floor of the block of flats across the road''.

The previous were Osram Night breaker style is ''ice cool'' colour but after so many years turn to yellowish.

So if i turn the socket clockwise the situation will gets better or not?

20 hours ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

So if i turn the socket clockwise the situation will gets better or not?

That was something I wonder about, if the bulb holders were put in the correction position in the light units, so try it on the easiest side to do and see what the result is. It might just be the photos but the lights seem very bright and full for just side position lights.

There are no manners or thought about the use of lights now, idiots pull over or park on the wrong side of the road and leave their headlights on unnecessarily shinning into the eyes of drivers on the road unnecessarily.

On 21/01/2026 at 20:15, D.FYLAKTOS said:

So if i turn the socket clockwise the situation will gets better or not?

You will not achieve anything, I use these on all my vehicles where white W5W are needed and they play rather well with canbus.

Except for Felicia's license plate, where I use these.

In licence plate i have White 6000K now (the factory yeloowish burned after so many years).

Look like these:

Might still be worth checking that the bulb holder is fitted correctly and fully fitted and same for bulb, people make mistakes or rush when fitting things.

In the UK some people put LED or other bulbs for rear number plate illumination, for the rear (reflective) number plates and they can be so bright and light colour and wrong light pattern that the number plate isn't as well illuminated as with original bulbs and create a distracting over-lit area on the car. Might not be these 1 watt bulbs though but probably 5000+k colour.

On 23/01/2026 at 17:25, D.FYLAKTOS said:

In licence plate i have White 6000K now (the factory yeloowish burned after so many years).

Look like these:

Very similar, I just chose a metal body for better heat dissipation.

On 23/01/2026 at 17:36, nta16 said:

Might not be these 1 watt bulbs though but probably 5000+k colour.

I mean, I do like bright rear lights, as they help me see when parking, etc.

2 hours ago, Thefeliciahacker said:

as they help me see when parking

Uhmmm, tut, tut, tut, using them for a purpose not designed by the engineers, really. :shakeshead: :headinhands:

😄 😄 😄

1 hour ago, nta16 said:

Uhmmm, tut, tut, tut, using them for a purpose not designed by the engineers, really.

Here we the olders say them ''1st scale'', we use them (alone) early in the morning or early in the afternoon (when there is no need for head lights yet) so other drivers can see us better, also those hours they light the cluster and this is helpful to ''wake-up'' us to watch the temperature-gasoline level.

I thought we were referring to rear number plate lights for reverse parking, apologises if I got that wrong.

Yeah, driving on side lights used to be common here too problem would be around town some would forget to then go on to dipped headlights when things got darker, hence possibly the bottom-wiping automatic lights. There is also an issue here with daylight running lights that are only to the front here as they will be let on when the sidelights to rear are also required, as on my wife's 2015 VWŠkoda Fabia Mk3, you can 'code' in continental style front and rear daylight running lights using the various rear side lights on the model if your have a suitable scan tool.

When I used to have a very bright yellow English sportscar I tried driving on dipped beam headlights during the day to se if it would reduce other drivers pulling out from side roads into my path but some still pulled out when they shouldn't have, I've no idea if a very low small car looks like it going slower than other traffic or what but I always prepared just in case.

7 minutes ago, nta16 said:

Yeah, driving on side lights used to be common here too problem would be around town some would forget to then go on to dipped headlights when things got darker

IIRC the highway code says you can drive on sidelights only if there's streetlighting and that it must only be on a 30mph / 20mph road.

Yeap IIRC that's how it might have been, is, can't remember now, but there's using also the (rare) common sense of adjusting for circumstances and street lighting can vary greatly in the area I live (red area on the new maps for potholes too). Not all cars are new or have lights in good condition or fully working or even the original factory colour, often on black or dark painted cars and from certain European brands, luckily there's light emitted from handheld phones or sounds from panel vibrations or other things to draw your attention if they give you enough time. But I'm sure the drivers are fully insured so no worries. 😁

Years ago the local councils decided to turn off every other street light on some roads and that seemed strange at first but you soon got used to it as a car driver, elderly and female pedestrians might have disagreed. All back on and replaced with (less) LED street lights that have now dimmed with age so no longer as very bright and lighting as they used to be for pedestrians, well those that use the two good tarmac or slabs footpaths provided and not walking in the middle of the road.

10 hours ago, nta16 said:

it would reduce other drivers pulling out from side roads into my path

This is Skoda Felicia's front side indicator (here we calle them ''Flash")

Here is how it looks from inside

Orange arrow = the socket for orange bulb

Blue arrow = my idea to make a patent, installed a extra Led bulb and turn them on when i am in City at night looking for a parking space, lot a small dark side roads and danger from other drivers so these bulbs give a more wider \ / pattern in my light so let's say ''in advance'' the other drives can see (via that light) that another car is coming.

Here is an example (my photoshop)

I will post pictures in the future.

Yes, us oldies at least, in the UK may call the indicator lights flashers (but there is another use of the word to mean something very different).

The lens pattern is to disperse the light from the indictor bulb so how would the secondary LED give a wider pattern unless the LED is specially angled to do so?

Also what you call ''hazard lights" we call them ''Alarm''. 😊

The extra led bulb isn't something strong so does not create problems (blur) to other drivers although the cover is plastic, just shows one click better than another car comes from corner.

In City dark small roads in low speed helps a lot, no gain in Highways or Mountain roads.