Long story short,

My wife had to have a new car last year and after looking at multiple superbs (nun that ticked all the box's for me) she fell in love with our 2017 se estate looks wise, and it ticked the box's for me low miles, very clean inside and out, service history and from a local independent dealer who are old family friends, but last week we happened to be parked next to a sportsline and all I heard was

"ooooo I like them lights" and the rest off the day was "can you put them lights on my car".

Im handy on the spanners and can use scanners and livedata to fault find and fix cars. But what exactly would be involved in converting the standard headlamp to a hid one with the led drl, 1. Can you recode the module to run the hid lights or just replace it with one from a donor car

2. Will hid lamp even plug into a stand lamp loom??

3. Can I learn to ignore these comments and forget about the whole idea and tell her it can't be done 🤔

Anyone ever done this before??

not worth the trouble given the massive task.

different wiring - 10-pin (halogen) vs 14-pin (HID).

u need 3x leveling sensors - 2 on each front axle and one on the left rear axle.

the headlight modules will b different - 1x AFS plus 2x LCM (Slave) modules.

2x power ballasts.

headlight washers - which requires additional wiring harness and piping to the front bumper. as a result, washer fluid tank is different and larger.

coding and parameterization of the HID headlights.

from factory, the bi-xenon HID headlights r hooked up to the suspension, steering, ABS and A5 camera (for high beam assist).

i would pass......

Edited 30 January30 Jan by JR RS

I Retrofit LED OEM Lights in our Octavia 3.

If you have no experience, no tool for flashing control units or writing data sets, forget the project. The mechanical conversion isn't the problem, and you can manage the missing wiring, but the programming is a whole other big issue.

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/533353-retrofit-oem-led-lights-octavia-5e-facelift/

Edited 30 January30 Jan by Cairus

Cheers for the replies fellas, I completely forgot the hids need to have level controls, and the lamp washers to be legal. I think I'll just change her standard drls to the cree led bulbs and say that's the best I can do for you ha