Seat Leon FR rare light

[Seatleon2016]

Hi everyone,
Hope Im writing in the right place (Im new here)
Im looking for to buy a rare light for seat leon FR 2016 .
And the seller told me that there is Valeo light and Volkswagen light.
(One come with Volkswagen symbol and the other not , and the lights come from the same company)
He told me that there is no difference between theme and this is the same light , but the one with Volkswagen symbol is more expensive.
someone can please tell me if there is difference between theme?

 

[serdar_18fr]

Hi everyone,
Hope Im writing in the right place (Im new here)
Im looking for to buy a rare light for seat leon FR 2016 .
And the seller told me that there is Valeo light and Volkswagen light.
(One come with Volkswagen symbol and the other not , and the lights come from the same company)
He told me that there is no difference between theme and this is the same light , but the one with Volkswagen symbol is more expensive.
someone can please tell me if there is difference between theme?

Hi, welcome to the forum.

There can be many variants of a car part, due to the upgraded components, changed wirings or newly introduced features etc and also many variants of their aftermarket equivalents.

As long as the seller is sure that the Valeo part is exact equivalent for the original part you need, there should be no difference and you can safely buy it. Valeo is a well-known manufacturer and makes a lot of original equipment for a lot of car brands.

In the past I used Valeo headlights instead of the original headlights, for long years without any problem. As I said, just make sure that you're getting the exact equivalent for the original.

Hope this helps.

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[cairus]

valeo was the factory supplier for the headlights of the Seat Leon 5F

 

[nd-photo.nl]

I had the same question back then for my Mercedes CLS55. I bought Hella headlights, which were the OE supplier for Mercedes back then. The lights are 100% identical, but without the Mercedes badge stamped on the headlight units.

 

[serdar_18fr]

I had the same question back then for my Mercedes CLS55. I bought Hella headlights, which were the OE supplier for Mercedes back then. The lights are 100% identical, but without the Mercedes badge stamped on the headlight units.

You reminded me some good old days...

I had ordered a brand-new magma-red Opel Corsa Sport in 2007, waited two months for it to be built and shipped from Spain to Turkey.

It had a lot of equipment, as I had added some options, like panoramic sunroof and ESP, to the already-rich standard trim, but in the end missed some features due to the rising cost, of course.

One of them I wanted most was AFL (Adaptive Forward Lighting) where you have additional cornering lights in headlight units (a very rare setup), which were amazingly bright and really useful at slow turns up to speeds of 40 km/h, and also main beams which follow the steering after speeds of 40 km/h. This one was unheard of on B-segment cars i.e. "superminis" at the time. I was really sad that I couldn't afford it, but after a couple of years I was able to get a pair of Valeo equivalents, found a used AFL control unit on eBay, downloaded wiring diagrams from Opel's own tech platform by paying 8 euros per hour, did some coding using GM's Tech2 diagnostics device and ultimately managed to retrofit those headlights by myself, with all the features in fully working condition. The photo below is one from those days.

 

[nd-photo.nl]

@serdar_18fr awesome! Funny story, the CLS55 from 2005 also had that "steering-in-corners" functionality, but that car was from another segment as you mentioned.

I never knew Opel also had that in their cars, mad respect to you for succesfully retrofitting it

 

[serdar_18fr]

@serdar_18fr awesome! Funny story, the CLS55 from 2005 also had that "steering-in-corners" functionality, but that car was from another segment as you mentioned.

I never knew Opel also had that in their cars, mad respect to you for succesfully retrofitting it

Those headlights are eerily similar by the way, Opel might have taken a hint or two from Mercedes, tech- and design-wise!

Opel had a very talented engineering team in Russelsheim, where they have worked on very different projects, especially in lighting tech, not only for their own brand, but also for all of the General Motors development teams around the world. Sadly they were disbanded & some of them transferred to a third-party company after PSA bought the brand from GM.

As for my Corsa at that time, AFL was not the only retrofit I made
I had replaced the windscreen to a solar-reflecting one and installed a rain & light sensor, an auto-light switch, replaced the standard infotainment with the one that has handsfree phone connection, navigation and touchscreen, also a brand new feature for the segment, with all the components being genuine Opel ones, such as microphone, USB & AUX port, GPS antenna, and wirings. Other retrofits included heated seats, ESP-off switch, Hill Start Assist, Tire Pressure Monitoring via ABS-sensors. All of those were done using the original wiring diagrams, genuine parts and had resulted in factory-like installations.

I'm still kind of a legend between young generations of Opel fans around here

 

[nd-photo.nl]

You are 100% right, the headlight units look very much alike

 

[Seatleon2016]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

There can be many variants of a car part, due to the upgraded components, changed wirings or newly introduced features etc and also many variants of their aftermarket equivalents.

As long as the seller is sure that the Valeo part is exact equivalent for the original part you need, there should be no difference and you can safely buy it. Valeo is a well-known manufacturer and makes a lot of original equipment for a lot of car brands.

In the past I used Valeo headlights instead of the original headlights, for long years without any problem. As I said, just make sure that you're getting the exact equivalent for the original.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my 23113RKC6G using Tapatalk

valeo was the factory supplier for the headlights of the Seat Leon 5F

I had the same question back then for my Mercedes CLS55. I bought Hella headlights, which were the OE supplier for Mercedes back then. The lights are 100% identical, but without the Mercedes badge stamped on the headlight units.

You reminded me some good old days...

I had ordered a brand-new magma-red Opel Corsa Sport in 2007, waited two months for it to be built and shipped from Spain to Turkey.

It had a lot of equipment, as I had added some options, like panoramic sunroof and ESP, to the already-rich standard trim, but in the end missed some features due to the rising cost, of course.

One of them I wanted most was AFL (Adaptive Forward Lighting) where you have additional cornering lights in headlight units (a very rare setup), which were amazingly bright and really useful at slow turns up to speeds of 40 km/h, and also main beams which follow the steering after speeds of 40 km/h. This one was unheard of on B-segment cars i.e. "superminis" at the time. I was really sad that I couldn't afford it, but after a couple of years I was able to get a pair of Valeo equivalents, found a used AFL control unit on eBay, downloaded wiring diagrams from Opel's own tech platform by paying 8 euros per hour, did some coding using GM's Tech2 diagnostics device and ultimately managed to retrofit those headlights by myself, with all the features in fully working condition. The photo below is one from those days.

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Thank you so much guys!
Today I bought the Valeo rare light for my car (the one without Volkswagen badge) hope it will be good

 

[nd-photo.nl]

@Seatleon2016 Good job, good luck!