Interior lights mk4 Bora/Golf

[Yevvy]

Treza, i think you got the 10mm wedge type bulbs in there, i got them in the map lights too - there's a 42mm festoon in the middle and two 10mm wedges on the sides, so i'll have to find them too. when i'll get them, i'll put up a link.

Dylan, i'll do the taillights myself, but i won't touch the windows. i do need to retint the windows - my tint is pathetic (50%?), but i'll do it once i invest in double din headunit. I'll take the pics of the led's i got, so you get the idea how they look.

oh and btw, i think my numberplate lights are gonna go out soon as they are 12v and according to vwvortex you need 14.4v ones in there. but i'll see how these go.

[Treza360]

Treza, i think you got the 10mm wedge type bulbs in there, i got them in the map lights too - there's a 42mm festoon in the middle and two 10mm wedges on the sides, so i'll have to find them too. when i'll get them, i'll put up a link.

Nah they're not even the wedge type bulbs like the map bulbs. They're little globe type ones that seem like they soldered in almost. I didn't even bother fully investigating once I worked out that I had a look at the bulb and realised that autobarn didn't sell and LED for them.
By the way I picked up all my LEDs from autobarn. The ones I replaced were, number plate, door lights, map lights, light between map lights, visor lights, boot light and glove box light.
The only ones I couldn't get were the BA9XS type bulbs in the parking lights and the rear passenger lights. These are an offset bayonet type light which I got from 42 draft designs over in the US (or maybe Canada).
Cheers,
Trent

[dylan8]

Dylan, i'll do the taillights myself, but i won't touch the windows. i do need to retint the windows - my tint is pathetic (50%?), but i'll do it once i invest in double din headunit. I'll take the pics of the led's i got, so you get the idea how they look.

Ahh taillights, i missed that bit sorry! is that legal...? thought i looked into it once before, but i might be wrong. Silver dub has smoked tail lights on his silver bora and they look sick! so hopefully you can

[Yevvy]

after three and a half hours and loosing my 8mm socket somewhere in the chassy (i'm so clumsy!), i've finally tinted the tails. too late to take pics now, i'll do it tomorrow. i would assume its legal if its not very dark - mine came out somewhere between 35%. i know mischa had them tinted for half a year or so and no trouble.

btw dylan here are some photos of the leds:







Treza, can you take some pics of your lighting setup?

[Treza360]

Sorry for the blurriness. Gotta love hand held photos in the dark. Also excuse the lack of bumper. Removed for respray. My lights aren't anything too fancy colour wise. Was just going for a simple colour scheme to match the cluster and stereo etc.

Door.


Map and Visors.


Close up of map lights.


What I'm trying to get the lights to match with.




Parking LEDs with and without normal headlights on.




Rear number plate LEDs.


Hope it helps with some inspiration.
Cheers,
Trent

[dylan8]

Thanks Yevvy
Nice pics trent, has your door lights got the standard red/white cover? cant see anyof the red if it has! car looks sweet!
Anyone done footwell lights? iv seen pics but wondering how they look in real life, would hate to make the car look ricey!

[Treza360]

Thanks Yevvy
Nice pics trent, has your door lights got the standard red/white cover? cant see anyof the red if it has! car looks sweet!
Anyone done footwell lights? iv seen pics but wondering how they look in real life, would hate to make the car look ricey!

Yeah it's the normal red/white type cover. With the blue LEDs it's a bit of a purple colour but yeah looks awesome still.
Cheers,
Trent

[Silver dub]

I know some people think it's ricey but i had blue neons in my footwells of my old golf so that they would match all the cluster etc. I actually liked them, wsn't hard to do either, had them running of a seperate switch under the dash

[Silver dub]

Those lights look very nice yevvy, simple but effective

[Yevvy]

thanks for the pics trent. i wanted to go for the red colour scheme, but after seeing your interior, i'll go for blue as well. however i'll use some red leds for the courtesy lights.

anyway, here are some pics of my tinted taillights (they look a little bit darker than they really are, need one extra coat). i went with three coats of tinting spray, didn't bother with clear coat, however might consider it later: