Bulb Sizes

[Andrewcupra TDI]

guess what my rear numberplate bulbds are playing up , wells ones gone and ones flickering ,

yet inside the car the puddle lits are all ok ??

 

[LEE69]

Damn!!

I'd email him see what he says.

 

[Andrewcupra TDI]

ye think i will , lucky i have some spares really but not the point

all the others seam fine tho ,

does it depend on which way they go in etc , as i just popped them in and they lit , where as my wedges had to go a certain way

 

[LEE69]

Yeah as one side is negative and the other positive, tbh i have never got them the wrong way either so maybe they can work both ways, try it and let us know

 

[Andrewcupra TDI]

ye will do later , couple of bits to sort , beens the weathers nice

 

[Jonezyfr]

how long have people had this interior bulb conversion installed? any bulb failures yet? how long until failure

 

[Chester]

I've replaced all but the rear clusters and the rear passenger interior bulbs (T5 Neo from what I've seen). All sourced from UltraLEDs.

Anyone know where you can get the rear passenger bulbs? I did have a pair ordered but they're supposedly coming from Hong Kong. Been 3 weeks now.

Incidentally, my number plate bulbs are 39mm. I'm thinking of purposefully breaking one of the LEDs on each bulb because they're too bright!

 

[LEE69]

T5 are available from ebay
It does say the number plate bulbs are 39mm now and if you break a led my bet is they are wired so they all go out.

 

[Andrewcupra TDI]

lee , got back to me , and is going to post more out , if they come then fair play to the guy

as for number plate lights , mine are extremely bright being 18 leds in a festoon
here they are

 

[Gordz]

Wow they are bright!!! They look really good!

I ordered some for my number plate, but I never got round to fitting them and now I can't find them ah well, i'm sure they'll turn up somewhere!

 

[Andrewcupra TDI]

yep megga bright , dig em out its totally different look to oem

 

[LEE69]

Nice one, Yeah they are really bright.

 

[Chester]

Yeah, mine aren't that bright! I might mask off all but the centre of 3 LEDs in each festoon and spray it black. Should dim it damn by about, ooh, 33%. Should be alright then.

I'm really pulling my hair out over the rear passenger lamps though. I got some T5 Neo bulbs from Hong Kong, but they are utter rubbish. For anyone thinking about it, don't bother. I'm looking around for components to weld in the gap for a brighter white light in the back instead of a dim blue tinge. If anyone's got any advice, that would be great.

 

[Jonezyfr]

gonna order that £40 HID kit i think, see how it goes, anyone else used it?

anyone used the hi-beam kit too?

does this kit just plug straight in them you find somewhere to hide the ballasts, any pics of them fitted (the ballasts i mean).

cheers, must look tidy if im gonna do it

 

[LEE69]

You won't believe just how much light the high beam converted to an HID kit will produce, it's immense!

 

[Jonezyfr]

cool, can it be easily fitted tho, OCD wont let me have just low beam HID

 

[LEE69]

yeah just fits the same as the dipped does.

 

[Jonezyfr]

is there enough room under there to safly hide both sets of ballasts then? you got pics of your fitted under the bonnet?

 

[LEE69]

Cant' really hide two ballasts, no pictures of mine.

 

[Jonezyfr]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HID-...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

is this the kit you have?

seems wierd pricing that, £14 +£22 postage. lol