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Old 6th May 2014, 09:55 AM
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Default Incandescent to LED

Thought it was time to replace the orange bulbs to something a bit more white and brighter.
Phoned my LED man up and got him to send him down a complete set of LEDs for the 8.

Next day 28 LEDs turned up at work.


That lot replaced every bulb in the interior, boot and number plate light.

Not wanting to fanny around in the car with the bulbs, I removed every light unit and took it into the house.

I could not get over how many plugs there was on the front lighting unit.


All lights ready for new LEDs.


First I removed the main lights from the front and rear lights, removed the tops and gave them a good clean.




With them all clean and put back together, I started on the rear reading lights. They needed a strip and a clean.


I replaced the footwell lights cause the single LED they had was pathetic really when you compared them to the new 4 LED units.



With all the LEDs in and lights refitted in the car I waited for night time and to make sure they worked correctly when fading and that the door lighting was still working.

Front door.


Rear lights. You can see the footwell having a little bit more illumination than before.


Front. Same with the footwells again.


Rear door.


Boot lid. Real shame they never fitted two like they did in the boot.


The boot. Not the best cause my boot storage is in the way and not sure where the blue is coming from, I think its the lenses but I will double check.


I never got round to doing the license plate lights cause I broke the screws holding the lenses in and then broke the lenses. I got new ones on order from Audi.

The lights still dim, no flicker, no errors on the dash and the ambient lighting bits still work.

My mate said he's happy to offer a discount to the forum if enough people are interested.
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