Mk6 LED Taillights

[Ryan_R]

Or my 16" whateverI'vegots

[onions]

quick thanks to Ozram for all the help and contact info!

installed and coded in less than 30mins.

photos to come

[XTC838]

Picked up my LED tails from the post office on Friday. Quick thanks to Ozram.

Just a quick question as I don't have a car to put them on. Do these tails have one or two fogs? Also are the signal lights also LED or normal bulb?

[Ryan_R]

USA version has 2 reverse lights, Europe + Aus should have one reverse (left) and one fog (right).

[RyanoAU]

Just wanted to check - has anyone had any damage occur to their tail lights since installing them?

Reason I ask is that after the recent rains, my rear-left taillight had condensation inside it, which has resulted in part of the white indicator strip (the colouring behind the surface) literally falling off. Looks like there's a darker area along that strip now.

Will post up a picture once home, but I'm trying to work out if it can be repaired, or if I'll eventually need to fork out for a new light!

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Am currently thinking it'll need to be replaced - would anyone be able to lend a hand identifying the part number of the outer left light in the darkened tint?

Darkened tint is this one: http://www.bks-tuning.com/epages/171...lectSubProduct

[AdamD]

Am currently thinking it'll need to be replaced - would anyone be able to lend a hand identifying the part number of the outer left light in the darkened tint?

See here, and elsewhere in this thread. I assume that the first part is the outer left; other posts will confirm one way or the other.

[RyanoAU]

Thanks mate - am just waiting on the contact's name now so I can order the part!

Incidentally, I think it was a result of the precipitation inside the tail light that other people have been mentioning...

[Koz]

I'm so screwed and I don't know what to do.....please help.

I received my led tail lights today thanks to Ozram yaaaaay but the joy stops there.

I decided to install them tonight - right side all done schweeeet, now onto the left.

I started with the smaller inner lights which have the two 8mm screws, I un did the first but trying to undo the second I threaded the nut and can't get it off or the inner tail lights. Ahhhhhhhh

I thought I'd move on from that and install the large left hand lightand worry about the threaded nut afterwards. I lined up the large light and screwed the white plaster screw that fixes the light in. Then on to the adapter, I plugged it all in and noticed the adapter wasn't plugging right into the back of the light. Thinking maybe it was my imagination I tried the lights to see if they were working for this tail light.....nope!

I realized it was because the adapter wasn't plugging in the whole way so I maybe thought I misaligned the tail light so I would unto the screw take out the tail light and realign it and try again. I then tried to unscrew the white plug thing again and couldn't unscrew it for the life of me!!!! Wtf!!!

Im not sure if it's because I did it up too tight or not but I can't gt it off! I'm screwed, literally and don't know what to do.

[Ryan_R]

Any workshops or garages nearby that could help? Maybe some Google searches on how to remove cross-threaded bolts - might be a special tool or something you can get. Someone must've been in a similar situation before and posted about it online. There's something called a 'nut cracker' that might help.

Sorry to hear about it.

[Ozram]

Koz, have you cross threaded the old light or the new LED?
Either way, it sounds like the stud part is turning in the plastic. It may be very difficult to undo. Get a female torx socket to fit over the end of the stud. You can see the end of your stud in the picture here
Once you hold the end of the stud with the torx socket you can get an 8mm ring spanner on the nut and undo it.

As for the outer light and the white plastic bolt, they can be tight. Get a pair of pliers , side grips or multi wrench on it.

Hope this helps mate.