All front lights (roughly) the same colour at last!
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^^^^^^^ I had the same with my FR's "canbus friendly" LED sidelights. The PCB was quite discoloured when I swapped them out for some others. I read somewhere that the proximity of the H1 full beam bulb doesn't help as it slowly cooks the SMD components.
Yes mine were both yellow looking, I swapped them over (drivers side-passengers side) and the fault moved with the LED. I also fitted them into a new shape Astra and the astra threw a bulb failure warning too. I don't know about the H1 bulb being close and cooking but I think the Surface mounted resistors must get hot (all resistors do) and there is no heat sink.
I have fitted plug n play resistors (for warranty reasons) with heat sinks and all is good so far.
Yes just on the facelift ones. Although I have read about people with Vag-Com enabling fog lights as DRL's on the pre facelift and even adjusting the brightness of them. Personally I'll give it a miss though.
Arh, ok thanks! Yes, fog lights are fog lights and it annoys the s&*t out of me being blinded by them when visibility is good.
^^^^^^^ I had the same with my FR's "canbus friendly" LED sidelights. The PCB was quite discoloured when I swapped them out for some others. I read somewhere that the proximity of the H1 full beam bulb doesn't help as it slowly cooks the SMD components.
I'm on my second set, the led sidelights seem to get hot and the solder isn't resistant to heat so you can see the flux/residue on the circuit board, I'm onto a supplier who's got better made ones when I hear back I'll post them up.
johnmack
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These lights are too good and side light and fog light are awesome can you please tell where Can i find these lights.
Assuming you're talking about my lights in the first post... these are the lights I used:
Sidelights
Philips Vision LED W5W/T10 4000K
(You'll also need a plug and play resistor kit to cancel any bulb failure warnings.)
Foglights
MTEC Cosmos Blue-White 4750K HB4/9006
The DRL LEDs are slightly harder to source: if you want those do a search on fleabay, dhgate or alibaba or whatever for "white LED 382" or "white LED 1156" and you should find something hopefully.
johnmack
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If anyone is still having trouble sourcing some white canbus-compatible LED replacements for their facelift DRLs (382/1156 bulb type), I just found these:
http://www.car-mod-shop.co.uk/Canbus white 27 SMD LED BA15s 1156 382 bulbs
They look similar to the ones that I have, but these new ones also have 3 SMDs pointing forwards as well as those mounted on the double-sided crossed PCBs. Might be worth a shot?
http://www.car-mod-shop.co.uk/Canbus white 27 SMD LED BA15s 1156 382 bulbs
They look similar to the ones that I have, but these new ones also have 3 SMDs pointing forwards as well as those mounted on the double-sided crossed PCBs. Might be worth a shot?
Sweet
You are a legend...
**UPDATE**
Just order a pair so hopefully they will arrive some time next week. Will post review/pics when installed
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Sorry for the delay in giving an update on these DRLs that I ordered
Thanks to Gainful, I have been able to order (finally) some DRL that are white and look good!
I can confirm that these work 100% so now the true test is to see if they last longer than the MTEC ones I had.
They may look a little blue in the pictures but this is down to the iphone camera. In the flesh, they are a nice white! Really happy with them
The down side of fitting them was that my left sidelight kept shorting out. I could hear it when turning the ignition on. On closer insecption, the philips blue vision had come out of the resistor kit. Manged to get it to stay in though after a lot of fiddling. May consider changing them at some point...
Thanks to Gainful
, I have been able to order (finally) some DRL that are white and look good!I can confirm that these work 100% so now the true test is to see if they last longer than the MTEC ones I had.
They may look a little blue in the pictures but this is down to the iphone camera. In the flesh, they are a nice white! Really happy with them
The down side of fitting them was that my left sidelight kept shorting out. I could hear it when turning the ignition on. On closer insecption, the philips blue vision had come out of the resistor kit. Manged to get it to stay in though after a lot of fiddling. May consider changing them at some point...
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They look good imho. Nice to know there's an alternative to the ones I bought (that seem rather hard to come by recently)...
They look good imho. Nice to know there's an alternative to the ones I bought (that seem rather hard to come by recently)...
Cheers. There is something a miss with the front passenger side wiring tho. This morning with lights set to auto, switched on and got a bulb warning for passenger side DRL. When I got to work switched auto off to force DRLs on and both worked.
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How you getting on with these? Looking to order some, the yellow colour DRL does let it down a little.
Hey. I really like these and look so much better than the OEM bulbs. Was hard finding some for some reason so happy these work ok. I think my car rejected them when it was really cold on a morning but that issue has gone since the weather got better.
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Sad Nation
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Hi
I just tried the link given and they are now out of stock. Everywhere else I looked was in the US of A!
Anyone know of any other UK suppliers?
Thanks
Sad Nation
I just tried the link given and they are now out of stock. Everywhere else I looked was in the US of A!
Anyone know of any other UK suppliers?
Thanks
Sad Nation
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