FK Angel eyes

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has anyone converted the filament angel eye bulbs to leds and if so where can i get some ???
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LED's go straight away, and the ring around the projector is horrible for replacing bulbs, takes ages and your hands do get cut and the air will turn blue from swearing :roll: I gave up after 2 sets of LED's went and went back to normal bulbs. Its actually easier to take the headlight out to replace them cos the battery gets in the way.
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cheers veedub. what do you mean 'go straight away'?? blow??

i have to take the lights out anyway as mine is a 1.9 tdi :?
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Yup, give it a few weeks till the first 1 till start to flicker, then the rest will follow.
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Veedub9n wrote:LED's go straight away, and the ring around the projector is horrible for replacing bulbs, takes ages and your hands do get cut and the air will turn blue from swearing :roll: I gave up after 2 sets of LED's went and went back to normal bulbs. Its actually easier to take the headlight out to replace them cos the battery gets in the way.
Are you saying that the LEDs are easier to fit but end up being crap because they fail quickly?

I'm just asking as it looked like the OP asked about dumping filament bulbs and using LEDs instead - but it looks like you are saying its not worth it from a reliability pint of view.

Ah, I've re-read your posting and what I read to be "LEDs go (in) straight away" is actually "LEDs go straight again" - is this not to do with their supply voltage ranges - these things need a series resistor or they will go "pop" with 12 volts - I'd reckon that most of them come with a predetermined voltage range so that means that they have internal series voltage dropping resistors - mainly I think that it is the series resistor that fails due to poor selection.
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got sum leds to try thanks to info from Luke_poloe's progress thread mkv forum

ill let ya know how they perform
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side one completed, LEDs and HID
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Somebodu do us a "how to" please :D
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removing bumper or fitting leds??
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Where did you get the LED's from??
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mwbpsx wrote:removing bumper or fitting leds??
For the LED fitting :)
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