HID wiring.

[Soundofav6]

It's hardly a new thread ...

After you see the picture you will be laughing....
The LEDs are basically pull and plug from old to new



You laughing now ... ???
The one on the right is LED, middle original, left some Bull$h!t.

Obviously the previously owner smashed the lights and careless to find matching wiring, Loon said these wiring are from earlier model golfs.
With some lunch money, loon sold me new wiring from the inside of head light chamber. That is exactly the SAME. only difference is the parkies socket. My job was hardly rewiring, just threading wire unit.

I am sure no one need to do the wiring unit, even so... you can not be wrong, there is only one slot for each of the metal clips,

Picture tells a 1000 words.

My pulled out unit from INSIDE of head light unit, note the parkies socket.


Installed new unit with original parkies socket.

[The_Hawk]

What sort of LED did you use? From where?

I take it you didn't use a resistor?

[DubSteve]

It's hardly a new thread ...

After you see the picture you will be laughing....
The LEDs are basically pull and plug from old to new

The first pic the one on the left thats the type of park light I have

How did you convert them, they **** me those lights

[bboyskidz]

this is my story...

I bought some ultrawhite H4 globes off ebay to replace the ****ty yellow ones that come standard. they look awesome. white is so much better than yellow.

the thing is, I noticed that even with the new globes, there was still a tint of yellow - turned out to be the parkers.

i thought blue parkers would look awesome, so I took mine out, taped up the terminals and sprayed them blue using engine enamel from bunnings. (see the picture below - the original is on the right...)



thing is, I dropped one of the globes when I was replacing it and the filament broke so I went to bullseye to get a new globe and start again. then the dude at the counter says they have blue LED lights. pictured on the left.

its basically just a swap out.

Mk3vr6, I didn't convert mine, that was the stock globe (however my car is '97) you never know, bullseye may have your type of globe in LED form too...

As you may be able to see by the pic, the LED globe has a resistor built into it (that thing inside the base) so if you could swap one of the newer sockets with the one that is on your lights then you should (theoretically) be able to just plug and play... it should all still be the same ampage/wattage.

for the record this is what the lights look like in a single chamber headlight...



and yeh that is about as bright as they get...

[Soundofav6]

How did you convert them, they **** me those lights

hey there, the rewiring is not hard if you can get the wiring of "interior light unit", I went to VW dealer, but they do not stock and 3+ weeks shipping from germany. SHOULD have asked for the price STUPID ME

well.. once you have the new unit
1. unbolt the whole head light (4 boults)
2. detach the socket from main source, and all the wires from bulb,
remove the glass (4 metal clips)and reflectors.
3.You will see 4 wired from the black socket after the reflectors are removed, push out with a screw drive.

alternatively I was to prepaired to have an attempt in soldering the "wedge socket" myself . I went to Repco and got a quote for a single "wedged shaped socket", it was only $1. 50 with delivery was 11 soemthing in total and 3 weeks. Not sure if it would work (considering there are same numbers of wires avaliable and places ) don't quote me tho.


The_HawK, I am sure I don't need a additional resister the bulb and LED are 12V DC, just Plug and play. Friend of mine brought it from HK for me, I was told they already the more expensive once, and these for my number plate light.
EVEN these jap stuff are next to nothing. I had my days with lights from Autojoy, I literally paied 4-5 TIME more halogen head bulb, almost fainted when I saw same ones in hk.

bboyskidz, they are nice with the single chamber. I clay bared my lights and metholed in and out, it worked for me