Mk4 Bulb upgrades

[dasmith83]

I had led sidelights in my old car and they were fine...think i may have changed them once, but that was due to originally have blue ones, getting pulled and changing to white instead

I ordered some White led sidelight bulbs for my FR too, however when i plugged the 1st one in, i discovered i'd been sent blue ones! Argh!! So im currently in the process of trying to sort this out.

Today as the weather is nice, i will be fitting my full beam, and foglight 8500k H3 bulbs. I'll post more pics once dark.

 

[dmjw01]

Unfortunately the LED sidelights are crap too ......... they start to flicker and will attract Police attention without you even knowing!

Yep - I gave up with LED sidelights when mine started flashing as well. In fact I've given up on all aftermarket LED lights - they either give very poor light distribution (even the "wide angle" ones with sideways-pointing LEDs) or they cause other weird electrical side-effects.

 

[RichieRich]

i have sent a email to autobulbs direct asking if they could do somethink about the voltage difference if alot of you do the same then they might do somethink... :shrugs:

 

[davels]

just done the same and mentioned the H3/H1 mix up

 

[RichieRich]

how come my dipped beam are H1 and not H7? is there much difference? are the H7's better? could i change mine to H7's?

 

[stu666]

My Ebay cheapies £7, not bad

 

[davels]

looking good matey would take pics of mine but i'm lazy and it's cold

 

[dasmith83]

i forgot to take pics of mine last nite, dam it! I'll do it tonight lol. I've now changed all bulbs to 8500k, apart from sidelights as im waiting for my white leds to arrive.

 

[RichieRich]

how come my dipped beam are H1 and not H7? is there much difference? are the H7's better? could i change mine to H7's?

anybody please??

 

[RichieRich]

hey stu666 how good are them cheapy eBay lights? any better than standard on the road?

 

[mexicorich]

Richie Rich
Perhaps someone has cjanged them by mistake?
Or have you got projector dip beam?
Is your dip beam the smaller or larger of the two light units?

 

[boss1986]

You need to get your headlights aligned becuase a) you won't be getting the proper ligth patterns and so you won't see as much of the road as you should. and b) your be dazzling other drivers.

Sorted.

went back to skoda and spoke to the bodyshop manager to delt with my car all the time it was in. he sorted them out for me all in 5 mins

asked him about some touchup paint but he recomended i go to seat because theres are solvent base and the skoda ones are waterbased.

didnt bother asking about an lcr spliter, mights aswell get that direct from seat aswell.shame there branches are a good 30-40mins away

 

[RichieRich]

Richie Rich
Perhaps someone has cjanged them by mistake?
Or have you got projector dip beam?
Is your dip beam the smaller or larger of the two light units?

my dipped are the bigger ones thanks for the reply

 

[lukey]

Yep - I gave up with LED sidelights when mine started flashing as well. In fact I've given up on all aftermarket LED lights - they either give very poor light distribution (even the "wide angle" ones with sideways-pointing LEDs) or they cause other weird electrical side-effects.

mine are flickering now, only 1 though. need to change them asap, but the access is a right pain

 

[Vicky M]

took a couple of pics yesterday,
doesn't really show how blue they really are tho

til the main beam are on, then they look yellow!!! and they are Osram blues !!!!

 

[dasmith83]

They're certainly an improvement from the main beam! I've now changed all bulbs except the sidelights...still waiting for them to turn up! Once they're fitted i'll post some pics.

 

[lukey]

dunno about anyone else but my stock headlight bulbs were shocking, couldnt see hardly anything on dipped beam, a few times i had to check they were actually on. ive put some sportzblus in to combat low light output (and not forgot to 20A fuse them) and some of those ultra white "HID look-alike" LEDs in the sides.
just got to wait for it to get dark now

 

[stu666]

hey stu666 how good are them cheapy eBay lights? any better than standard on the road?

They are ok nothing special, I quite fancy getting these instead:

They get a gr8 write up - bit pricy though

 

[stu666]

Before any1 comments, I know its H7's i require

 

[stu666]

Lol couple of hours after i say i want new bulbs. My one of my 3month old ebay cheapie bulbs blow lol. Such a coinsidence its scary, dunno why they blown i defo did not toch the glass of the bulb and there was no damage on it appart from the element had broke. So its back in with the oem's yey!!
Want ma new ones now. may try and complain to the eshop i got them from lol