Group Buy: Aftermarket Bixenon Headlights (WinPower Lamps)

[Arnold]

...the dealership actually recommended that I buy one with the leather and add sunroof and headlights with aftermarket options .

If the dealer had one with a sunroof that would have recommended you take that too.

[nma]

Pay peanuts get monkeys ! Really all this for headlights

[Jazrod]

How's it all going, guys?

[01_GOLF]

My headlights are going really well, the left/right adjustors are really easy to thread but other than that they're perfect

[Jazrod]

Everyone should put some more pics up!

[DeusLucem]

I still don't have working headlights. They've asked me to test the bulbs with a 12V source (even though I've tried switching ballasts and bulbs). The culprit seems to be the wiring inside one of the headlights but they seem to think it's the installation issue.

"And you can just take out the bulb and ballast, use 12V power to test, if still bright, then it’s not the ballast and bulbs problem, only the problem of installation"

Anyway, I'm flying out in less than 2 weeks and will be gone for a while. Any ideas? Can the headlights be opened up to check the wiring?

[Flipper]

I only just fitted mine they are a huge improvement over standard and look pretty cool too. I had a bit of a difference of opinion with WPlamps over what plug and play is you can not install these correctly without a VCDS cable and a bit of reprogramming. To me plug and play is just that you fit them plug them in and your done but with these you have to program the car to suit otherwise they do some weird stuff like 1 DRL illuminating very dim and the other off depending on what lights are turned on/off. With a lot of net surfing and Google translation I've managed to get them working the same as a MK7 R I just need to play around with the dimming a bit more but that's just personal preference. If the lights came with some installation, adjustment and programming instructions I'm sure the company would have a lot more satisfied customers.
Oh and I was another 1 who couldn't spec a car with the factory option lights in the time frame I had to work with.

[point]

Yeah my lights have been working perfectly too - very happy with my purchase!
That said, I too wish I could have specced a comfortline from factory with Xenons. I don't understand why VW doesn't allow it, if we're prepared to cough up the money whey not spec them? Xenons can be had on any spec German and even UK Golfs?

[chibailah]

me too very happy with mine , no issues other then the VCD which i can live with

[tortor]

Received my headlights 6 weeks ago from WinPower (WPLamps).
I had some fog in left headlight during the night. I opened it for driving some days. Now everything is OK. At this time no problem except the coding. When I use the side direction lights I have an important dimming difference between left and right side. I don't know the coding parameters to tune it. I also have no double U led during the night (doesn't know the coding).