Mk6 LED Taillights

[G-rig]

That is wrong.
They are just the actual part numbers for the 4 lights. There is no labour in there. And there is no mention of adapter cables that *are* required.


$1072 + GST local v around $780 landed. I know which ones I'd get

Thanks for clearing that up, seemed too cheap to be true.

[AdamD]

$1072 + adapter cables + GST local v around $780 landed. I know which ones I'd get

Absolutely! TMTuning used to sell the adapter cables for $US46 (not currently listed on their site, but they were previously; I think they're now bundled with their code box). Let's conservatively estimate the dealer cost to be $AU50 + GST. That would bring the cost to $1122 + GST, so $1234. That's a premium of over $450, before you factor in installation.

[Browny]

Guys

I just spoke to my dealer, and he told me to order them in (as per Ozram's contact) as VWA charge them an arm and a leg for the lights.... He then told me to drop them off to him and he will get the service guys to fit them while they are preparing my car for pick up...

End result, I will be picking my car up in November with the LEDs already fitted with no code issues.... That it fantastic!! BTW, they wont charge me for the installation either.

Cheers

[AdamD]

End result, I will be picking my car up in November with the LEDs already fitted with no code issues.... That it fantastic!! BTW, they wont charge me for the installation either.

That's a great result! Much better than what my dealer was prepared to do - which is precisely nothing. Hopefully dealers will be prepared to change their tune now that the R is out and this becomes a more common request.

[Browny]

My dealer told me that he had a lot of clients with Mk5 gtis doing the same thing(getting LED tail lights).... I have also not been the first to ask this question and surely will not be the last.

I must say that my dealer has been great and he is always happy to answer my emails and answer my questions.... You have just purchased a $50K car for christ's sake, you would think that they would be a little more helpful...

[AdamD]

I had my car coded up with VCDS this afternoon, to remove the bulb-out warnings after fitting the Golf R OEM LEDs.

EDIT: At this stage I had set the incorrect coding value which, while removing the bulb-out warnings, I later realised was the cause of issues with my DRLs and parking lights. For more information, and the correct coding information for a March 2010 (likely > week 45 2009) build GTI with halogen headlights, see this post.

[Ozram]

AFAIK, everyone in Australia who's fitted the LEDs has had success with the above code, irrespective of build date or model (Ozram used the same code on his 09-build 118TSI).

Agreed Adam. I think the coding that is sent out is for L/H/D models and/or the US models with no foglights.

Just found out something else that may be of interest. It appears that Golf's built before May 2009 may have an earlier style of light controller that may not be able to be coded. Only work around appears to be to install a new controller, which would be expensive.

Looks like my June 2009 build squeaked it in then. Phew!!

[Escell]

Got a reply back from volkspower re led lights coding, very vaguely saying that he has no idea if coding would work. Sounds similar to another reply to this thread. Since we all know what is needed, I might just head to my dealer to have the recoding done.

My lights are on the way from Germany, ordered 5 days ago. Many thanks to ozram and golfitup for the help. Will post pics later.

[Corey_R]

Since we all know what is needed, I might just head to my dealer to have the recoding done

Keep in mind that VCDS is not a Volkswagen tool, so the dealers possibly do not use it...

[Escell]

Ah I see. Has anyone in Melbourne had the recoding done for these lights?

Please pass on their contact details if you have.