LED headlights

mbaichu · Post by **mbaichu** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:52 pm

you may have noticed on new audis they have led headlights

i thought this would look pretty cool on my car and have seen a few drive by with them. you can buy them from ebay for about Â£30.
just wondering how do i open my headlamps up to put them inside cuz i dont want it on the grille

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AUDI-R8-S6-LED-LI ... dZViewItem

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:13 pm

I believe that if you take your headlights off the car and stick them in the oven for a bit, it will heat up the glue and then you can disassemble them to fit the LEDs inside.

Might be worth seeing how much a set of headlights are from a local scrappy or a breaker (or eBay) so that you can play around with the spare set whilst keeping your own headlights on the car?

Cheers

mbaichu · Post by **mbaichu** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:17 pm

i think you mis-understood

the disassembling part was the part im having trouble with, do i have to take off the whole bumper to take of the headlight glass

polo-sib · Post by **polo-sib** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:59 pm

You need to take the headlight out to pop the glass off. The headlights fairly easy to take out, on the 6n its just held down by a few screws, easiest way was take it out with indicator then slide indicator out. I'd imagine its the same for the 6n2.

As for the glass I member you could take it out somehow, think there was a slight small metal clip on the side of the headlight (the side the indicator was) that you undid and popped the glass out or you could easily detach the reflective stuff from the headlight casing, once you get the headlight out you should see it very simply.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:05 pm

To get the headlights out, yeh you have to remove the front bumper

Post by **alexperkins** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:25 pm

Correct

The front bumper has to be removed, as there is a mount behind the bumper for both headlights that cannot be accessed any other way.

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:36 pm

Shows you how to do it here:

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... sidelights

mbaichu · Post by **mbaichu** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:54 am

thanks ill give it a try ( when the weather gets better )

has anyone else given this a try?

why doesnt any of you guys try it out?

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:07 pm

mbaichu wrote:why doesnt any of you guys try it out?

Because I have a GTi with factory-fit xenon headlights

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:20 pm

Si_GTi wrote:
mbaichu wrote:why doesnt any of you guys try it out?
Because I have a GTi with factory-fit xenon headlights

X2, plus am not really a fan of them