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Old 18th June 2015, 02:39 PM
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Default Illuminated door sills

Was on a russian A8 forum this afternoon. One member had photos of illuminated 'Audi Exclusive' door sills. I couldn't find out if these were genuine or aftermarket. However, the owner was a little disappointed with their light output. Nice mod in my opinion





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Old 18th June 2015, 03:55 PM
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Scott and/or Marcin will be along shortly on this subject. They've made a great custom mod:

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Old 18th June 2015, 04:53 PM
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They're like rocking horse poop to get hold of, and many of the transformers were dodgy on them.. I retrofitted a set to my PF D3, but they worked a couple of times and died. My FL D3 had a set already fitted and they looked great at night, but were only ever really intended to light up the Audi logo rather than be a light source as such.
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Old 18th June 2015, 05:52 PM
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They are nice - even Hyundais and KIAs have them now.
I also heard a couple of years ago on forums that they were very unreliable too and Audi were selling them cheap and have now run out (discontinued part).
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....Audi were selling them cheap and have now run out (discontinued part).
That's probably why I couldn't find the part number.
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Hate to think how many are in the bin when they could of been saved with a new tranny quite easily or just redo the whole light

Look really nice though I do admit.
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Old 18th June 2015, 07:03 PM
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with a new tranny quite easily or just redo the whole light
There is a thread somewhere on the net where someone was trying other inverters from laptop screens or similar.
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Old 18th June 2015, 07:36 PM
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Olly is right.

we made these.
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Yep
Ongoing project since Nov '14
ver. 2 coming soon
Not a single set of OEM ones laying around to our knowledge, we've actually called a looooooooot of places from far far East, Russia, through suppliers in Europe to US.
Original ones were dropped in October 2009 and never replaced with a better product.
Part number is for the actual illuminated sills
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Have you guys seen these ones from Rumania?
I've not seen any others like these yet anywhere else!
http://youtu.be/GYcraXnKKcI
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