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Belix
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« on: January 19, 2011, 09:22:35 pm »
Hey Steve! Hope all good!
remember reading a post somewhere where you commented a lot on retrofitting LED headlight.
Is this an easy retrofit, or does it need certain controller version?
You also mentioned something about it getitng rid of the rear LED error message?
Lastly, can you source them?
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2011, 10:30:03 pm »
Steve is in the process of doing this conversion give him a couple of days as he has just got the parts, (He just got a new controller.)

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the only thing i am sure of is D and E versions do work, and for LED xenon's you need software index of above 0575 and above.

So basically a golf build from build week 45 2009 or newer.
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2011, 11:09:16 pm »
Thanks Snoopy, I will post the results tomorrow  happy2
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2011, 09:14:03 am »
looking forward to it! how do you guys discover this coding? Wonder what changes where made in the latest gen controller.
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2011, 10:33:29 pm »
Night Shots







And the Daytime ones
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2011, 03:02:19 pm »
Looks good. Need to get an idea of costs to see whwther this is pie in the sky or a possibility.
With DRL on, and head off do your rear lights go out too?
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2011, 03:03:23 pm »
^^^ I will check what happens with the rear light  happy2
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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2011, 03:52:02 pm »
The LED`s look good  Smiley Is it a lot of work if you already have xenons?
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« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2011, 10:41:03 pm »
Nope the swap over from original Xenon's to LED Xenon's is about an hours work, and if your BMC is upto date enough then it's just coding that is required  happy2
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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2011, 12:14:08 am »
 happy2 might look at these for summer after I have fitted the other things I have waiting to go on the car laugh
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« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2011, 08:54:19 pm »
Have you figured the coding out? Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2011, 09:36:18 pm »
Yep, I now have it working just how I want it.

So the switch works as follows: -

Off = All Off
Auto (Daylight) = Front DRL's only
Auto (Dark) = Dipped beam Xenon with a dimmed LED DRL's
Side Light = Front DRL's and Rear Lights
Indicator = Audi Style Dimming on the side of the active indicator

I will do a write up of the coding and install process at the weekend  happy2
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« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2011, 10:16:51 am »
Great, that's how I want em to work too!
erm, now about that pricing....
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« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2011, 07:26:01 pm »
Fantastic.  happy2 Ideal setup that  Smiley
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