Group Buy: R-Dash LED Licence Plate

[Naresh]

Out of interest the festoon you took out looks like it contains 6 x 3 chip SMD's so the equivalent of 18 LED's. Obviously from your pictures though, the whole new unit looks much brighter. The only concern I have with that is ratttling inside the tailgate from the resistor as you mentioned. But the look is spot on.

Incidentally what if you disconnect the resistor and disable the number plate light monitoring via VCDS? The led's would still work and you'd have no resistor block rattling about. Or is it not as simple as that? My monitoring was disabled and I'm running standard fetsoon LED's but not as bright as those.


Is the festoon from jpwarden on ebay?

[aussietig]

Out of interest the festoon you took out looks like it contains 6 x 3 chip SMD's so the equivalent of 18 LED's. Obviously from your pictures though, the whole new unit looks much brighter. The only concern I have with that is ratttling inside the tailgate from the resistor as you mentioned. But the look is spot on.

Incidentally what if you disconnect the resistor and disable the number plate light monitoring via VCDS? The led's would still work and you'd have no resistor block rattling about. Or is it not as simple as that? My monitoring was disabled and I'm running standard fetsoon LED's but not as bright as those.

Is the festoon from jpwarden on ebay?

Sorry buddy ... but you've got the units mixed up.

My existing one (that gave me errors) was a 6 (2 x 3) SMDs festoon pictured on the RHS.

The whole new R-Dash unit (including casing) on the LHS contains 18 (3 x 6) smaller SMDs.




In terms of rattling ... I think something can be done once you take out the whole black bar/strip holding both licence plate light, handle in place.

Just too lazy to go through it and don;t want to risk screwing around with the RVC.
Still recovering from both the physical & emotional scars with that DIY install.

Don't know why but my MY11 is very sensitive!
Continues to throw up errors with all LED festoon bulbs even with monitoring disabled via VCDS.

Can't remember where I bought those 2 x 3 festoon from.

They still work perfectly ... but like I said threw up errors on my MFD.
However, most likely not a problem in earlier model Tigs and all Golfs.

[Naresh]

Hi mate looking again at your pictures and comparing with the current ones on my car those look very bright so I may well ordering a set of those myself and removing the resistor to see if they still work ok. The monitoring on mine was switched off and so far no errors have been thrown up, which in theory it shouldn't because it was disabled via VCDS. A few of us have done that over on mytiguan.com and it worked, although as you say, the 2011 and later cars are very sensitive!

Can you just confirm if the replacement units include the OEM connector block as on the original light modules?

[aussietig]

Can you just confirm if the replacement units include the OEM connector block as on the original light modules?

It's a complete swap and replace after you unplug the original.
In other words, you'll end up with the whole original licence plate lights as spare parts.


If in doubt, give them the VIN of your Tig via AliExpress and they'll check compatibility for you.

However at the moment, it's chinese new year and probably out of action for 2 weeks.

[Naresh]

Thanks for confirming. Is that link above still the correct one for the 2011 Tig?

Yeah I know about the Chinese new year when do they start back at work, I wanted to order my LED tail lights.

[aussietig]

Is that link above still the correct one for the 2011 Tig?

Here's the direct link: Aliexpress.com : Buy Racing Dash LED License Plate Lamp for VW Tiguan 2011 2013 from Reliable LED License Plate Lamp suppliers on Racing Dash Enterprise Ltd.

[tigger73]

Here's the direct link: Aliexpress.com : Buy Racing Dash LED License Plate Lamp for VW Tiguan 2011 2013 from Reliable LED License Plate Lamp suppliers on Racing Dash Enterprise Ltd.

Thanks to aussietig for organising this (mini) group buy. Installation was a 5 minute job. Put some double-sided tape on the back of the resistors so hopefully they don't move around. LEDs are much brighter and can confirm that they are error free.

[aussietig]

Thanks to aussietig for organising this (mini) group buy. Installation was a 5 minute job. Put some double-sided tape on the back of the resistors so hopefully they don't move around. LEDs are much brighter and can confirm that they are error free.

No worries!

Planning to do something similar on the weekend, to secure it properly.

Clunking sound when Mrs opens and closes the boot is starting to give me the 5hit$

[Naresh]

Thanks for the link, I have ordered now so will report back with pictures on how the install went.

[Naresh]

Just to update I received a nice package via Fedex here in the UK which was quite fast considering the chinese new year. The LED units are now installed and working fine - much brighter than the original festoons and a perfect crisp white.

The most important thing is they work fine without the huge resistor blocks attached. I chose not to plug them in as I had already disabled the cold monitoring system via VCDS and am pleased to say there is still no error message on the MFD. Happy days.