LED headlight retrofit

LeylandVCDS

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Apr 20, 2015
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Leyland, Lancashire
Anyone know if it's feasible to swap out the halogen headlights of a 2014 Toledo to LED units? Got the LEDs in my Leon, and they are vastly superior to halogens. Thanks
 

camelspyyder

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Jun 26, 2014
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I've had the Mk4s with halogens and LEDs.
There is no comparison. The factory halogen bulbs are weedy yellow long-life efforts which are awful for night driving.
Drivers of the Skoda version with no LED option seem to go for Nightbreakers or similar to upgrade the standard units.

I guess the cost of the LED headlamps would make that upgrade very uneconomic ?
 

LeylandVCDS

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Apr 20, 2015
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Leyland, Lancashire
I guess the cost of the LED headlamps would make that upgrade very uneconomic ?
Thanks for your reply - it seems there are very few folk on this Toledo 4 subforum, far less than the Leon 3 one where I also mooch.......
I suppose it would all depend on if you can source the units at a reasonable price. I haven't got the car yet and won't be doing so for another couple of weeks, as I'm still not driving after a big shoulder operation a couple of weeks ago (car has been left to us in a will, and so unfortunately for me timing couldn't be further off if it tried, not helped with a 3 hour drive needed to go and get it!), but I've already sourced a rear ended salvage Xcellence which has factory LEDs and tempted to be cheeky in asking what I could get them for......
Just unsure how much other work there would be to do on a potential retrofit. I really don't want to start butchering the car - it's a 14 plate, owned by our friend who has passed away from brand new, and has just 6,600 miles on the clock - so basically a brand new car on 8 year old plates!)
 

camelspyyder

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Jun 26, 2014
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I had a 14 1.2. Its a much better driving car than my 18 1.0.
The smaller engine is awful in comparison.
Should never have traded it.
 

Ari

Jan 24, 2020
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Has anyone done this?
I believe the LED's have a 14-pin connector, as opposed to the 10-pin on the halogens.
Could the pinout for the pre-facelift Leon LED headlights be used as a reference perhaps?
@East Yorkshire Retrofits - Any experience with this?

I've recently bought a 2015 Toledo, and I have a set of headlights sitting on a shelf, would be really nice to be able to fit them.
 

JoseKaLeL

ARONA Beats Audio Edition (2019-Facelift)
Jan 8, 2020
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Aguascalientes, México
Has anyone done this?
I believe the LED's have a 14-pin connector, as opposed to the 10-pin on the halogens.
Could the pinout for the pre-facelift Leon LED headlights be used as a reference perhaps?
@East Yorkshire Retrofits - Any experience with this?

I've recently bought a 2015 Toledo, and I have a set of headlights sitting on a shelf, would be really nice to be able to fit them.
could be used yes, but it has different signals... telling you cause Im on the same page... but the image I see for example the high light was 1 number on Leon but on my car its another one cause doesn't do the highlight fully
 
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