Headlights are wrong i think please help

[RedRocket1009]

This has confused me so much, I just wanted to buy new headlights for my golf mkv gti, however I now know that there are some that come halogen and some that come with HID, I have always notice that the body lines of my car don't match up amazing with my headlights. Doing some research I saw that if the 8th digit of your vin is k then they have hid headlights, however my car has halogens clearly, how the hell does it have halogens, when they are not supposed to be able to fit into the car, I dude I bought the car from said there was a crash and he changed the headlights, but I am beyond baffled. Since there is halogens does this mean that there is no HID unit in the car, as well as having a halogen connector which is 10 pin into an hid connector which is 12 pin!!! Someone enlighten me I beg.

 

[GTI's]

MK5 GTI in the US came with HID Bi-Xenon headlight as standard equipment. The 8th digit of the VIN does not tell you anything about headlight usage in the car. Yes, some people have downgraded their HID GTI to use Halogen headlight because they did not want to spend the extra money for the HID. Seems this person did just that but may have used an adapter harness to go from the 12pin body side plug for the HID to 10 pin for the Halogen headlights and did not damage the original body side harness or plug. A scan tool is needed to check if the rest of the system for the HID is still intact and to code back to HID if you go and return them back to stock.

This has confused me so much, I just wanted to buy new headlights for my golf mkv gti, however I now know that there are some that come halogen and some that come with HID, I have always notice that the body lines of my car don't match up amazing with my headlights. Doing some research I saw that if the 8th digit of your vin is k then they have hid headlights, however my car has halogens clearly, how the hell does it have halogens, when they are not supposed to be able to fit into the car, I dude I bought the car from said there was a crash and he changed the headlights, but I am beyond baffled. Since there is halogens does this mean that there is no HID unit in the car, as well as having a halogen connector which is 10 pin into an hid connector which is 12 pin!!! Someone enlighten me I beg.

 

[RedRocket1009]

Thank you, I didn’t know that all mk5 came with bi xenons

 

[snobrdrdan]

Thank you, I didn’t know that all mk5 came with bi xenons

GTI's & GLI's did

The (MK5) Jettas and Rabbits did not though

 

[GTI's]

GTI's & GLI's did

The (MK5) Jettas and Rabbits did not though

Depends on what country you are in, HID Bi-Xenon were optional in some regions on the GTI/GLI and other models. In the US they are standard on the GTI/GLI.

 

[snobrdrdan]

Depends on what country you are in, HID Bi-Xenon were optional in some regions on the GTI/GLI and other models. In the US they are standard on the GTI/GLI.

True, but since he was in New Jersey I figured we were safe to assume we're talking about the US models

 

[GTI's]

MK5 GTI in the US came with HID Bi-Xenon headlight as standard equipment.

I thought that was made clear in the 2nd post.

 

[snobrdrdan]

I thought that was made clear in the 2nd post.

He said "all MK5's" in #3...all I said was no since the Jetta & Rabbit didn't, and just the GTI/GLI did

/discussion

 

[GTI's]

12 to 10 headlights https://kufatec.com/en/xenon-adapter-to-halogen-headlights-for-vw-golf-5-golf-plus/45489

10 to 12 headlights https://kufatec.com/en/xenon-hid-headlights-adapter-for-vw-golf-5/40288


You will need a scan to like Vcds to do some coding changes between the two systems