crabpot
Awesomesauce
- Location
- Kirkland, WA
The ZizA LEDs license plate lights are GARBAGE. I've gone through four sets of them (all warrantied).
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The ZizA LEDs license plate lights are GARBAGE. I've gone through four sets of them (all warrantied).
iSpool
United_Euros
- Location
- Boca Raton, FL
- Car(s)
- DSG 2dr MKV GTi
okay. so i bought the ones in the OP and they suck, they arent even xenon, wtf. sweet just wasted like $40. way to describe them as LED/xenon, and have pictures of LED/xenons, and have a link to a non LED/xenon bulb. wtf dude
Cbus mkv
Lowcally Famous
- Location
- Dayton, Ohio
are the bulbs for the license plate and for the trunk the same size?
JetTurbo
geezer
- Location
- South Florida, USA
- Car(s)
- 2018 GTi Autobahn 6M
Not really.
I use a 39mm bulb in the license lights and a 42mm bulb in the rear compartment.
License light - 42 draft designs 14.5v White 39mm Fuse Style LED . . . . . . . . .Pictures are not to scale
Rear compartment light - superbrightleds.com 4210-CWHP6 . . . . . . . . .Pictures are not to scale
But 3mm is not all that much difference. Note the fixture contacts have a little room for variations.
You can bend them a bit to change the accommodated bulb size if need be.
i aked b4 ill ask again what rims do u have on your car?
Any idea what gives matching super white light for our front fog/driving lights? I believe they are a HB4 globe?
*edit - bought a pair of the Hoen City Light and matching 9006 foglight xenonmatch globes. Will let you know how we go!
*edit - bought a pair of the Hoen City Light and matching 9006 foglight xenonmatch globes. Will let you know how we go!
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g60_corrado_91
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- IL
- Car(s)
- 2006 GTI 6MT Pkg 1
I was going to say, the Hoen Xenonmatch foglights come pretty close to matching the HID's. I had those until the one burned out after a year or so. I still have the H7 Xenonmatch bulbs in the flash to pass and since I run in UK mode, those come on with the highbeams. They're slightly bluer than the HID's, but it's a pretty close match. They don't have the crispness of the HID's as well, but that's expected since they are halogen with normal lens and not an HID in a projector.
Your GTI has the OEM HID's right? Otherwise if you've got the Eurospec non-HID headlights, those are just normal halogen bulbs just like the foglights. I know it was an option anywhere besides the USA and maybe Canada, that's why I asked.
Edit: Just saw your signature picture. If that's your car, then you do have the HID's. And seeing that you're in Australia, they're probably the better European spec beam pattern too i.e. a better cutoff than what the US allows.
cantona7
Ready to race!
- Location
- Washington DC
what was the bulb? details?
g60_corrado_91
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- IL
- Car(s)
- 2006 GTI 6MT Pkg 1
168/194 style with a blue coating which made it appear more white like the Polarg's.
cantona7
Ready to race!
- Location
- Washington DC
08gtiwhite
New member
- Location
- Los Angeles. (Woodland Hills Area)
- Car(s)
- GTI
Just got all the bulbs and put them in. Looks great.
are the parking lights the ones in the 2nd and 3rd picture? seems easy to this. people are blowing fuses and stuff anything to be aware off to not mess it up? also how do you turn those lights on ive never noticed them, on a uk golf tdi btw 
do the standard mk5 golf rabbit have those lights on the botton of the headlight? or are they just on the gti?
p.s whats euroswitch? and disabling DRL? kinda lost reading the thread lolll
do the standard mk5 golf rabbit have those lights on the botton of the headlight? or are they just on the gti?p.s whats euroswitch? and disabling DRL? kinda lost reading the thread lolll
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DuBB SWaGG
GTI 3yr Veteran
- Location
- Queens, New York
- Car(s)
- GTI MkV
I think this is a problem with me too. My bulbs were pretty much brown n rusty looking after a couple months of use. Now they only stay on for 5 seconds after i unlock my car.
But I installed new LED bulbs today and they still stay on for only 5 seconds :iono:
JetTurbo
geezer
- Location
- South Florida, USA
- Car(s)
- 2018 GTi Autobahn 6M
The LEDs are too efficient.
they do not draw enough power, the CEC determines that is an error,
and kills power to the circuit.
You should get a bulb out and
a message on the MFD at startup identifying the failed circuit.
You must either increase the load by adding a resistor or
use bulbs that draw enough power, typcially called error canceling,
but the added heat of those bulbs will just kill them faster.
Been there, done that.
I finally went to dedicated LED fixtures.
And even the 18 SMD LEDs on just one of those is not enough draw,
it takes two of them working properly to satisfy the CEC.
I like that. with stock bulbs, both have to fail before you get the lamp out.
With the LED fixtures, any failure will be reported immediately.