Headlight / DRL / Foglight / Park light bulb replacement

[Corey_R]

http://fwd.five.tv/fifth-gear/videos/consumer-info/renault-megane-lightbulbs-highlights-s14-p2

That would be the segment I guess, but I can't play it from where I am (Korea atm). It doesn't mention the Golf in the text of that page, but on the show they used the Golf MKV as an example of 'how it should be' when doing a report on how incredible bad the Megane's headlight design is (literally requiring you to remove the front wheels and access the headlights via a small hole in the wheel arch).
Whereas on the Golf, after a few practices, the Fifth Gear presenter was able to sit on the front of the car, eat a sandwich, lean backwards, reach down into the engine bay and change the headlight bulb with one hand whilst not even looking at what he was doing.

[kimiraikkonen1a]

Yeah the MK6 main dipped beam headlights are as easy to change as the MK5 shown in that Fifth Gear segment, I've done it myself. The tricky ones are the park lights.

There's hardly any room to get your hand down and into the bulb housing, and when u do manage to get your fingers on the park light socket you can't clamp your fingers tight enough to pull it out with enough force.

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=38785&highlight=main+beam

According to sillygogo you should be able to get the guys at the service centre to do it for you free of charge. I haven't had time to get mine to my VW service centre yet.

[Pharkus]

Well the technology is there, it is available as an option in NZ for the GOLF but i guess the importer didn't want to bring it in for OZ.

Agree. Don't really see how it is much harder to option it for the 118TSI (hence my assumption before that you could) over a GTI. Have you tried asking the dealer if it's at all possible?

Once you get factory HID's it's hard to go back!

[Corey_R]

It means that VWA would need to keep stock of additional sets of alternate bumpers (with provision for the headlight washers etc) etc in the country. Otherwise every time someone had a small fender bender with a car with Xenon lights, that car would be off the road for ages whilst the bumper shipped from Germany etc.

Additional inventory means extra admin, tracking costs, storage etc. Storage is actually quite expensive in this country! It's always more complicated guys than just having 'an extra box for the customer to tick'.

[Pharkus]

But wouldn't VWA still be required to stock spare bumpers (with provision for headlight washers) for the GTI's and R32's that are optioned/come with HID's?

So where is the difference here if the 118TSI were offered with HID's?

VWA would still be making money off it as the customer has optioned up their car, and we all know how those add up!

[Corey_R]

But wouldn't VWA still be required to stock spare bumpers (with provision for headlight washers) for the GTI's and R32's that are optioned/come with HID's?

So where is the difference here if the 118TSI were offered with HID's?

VWA would still be making money off it as the customer has optioned up their car, and we all know how those add up!

Yes they are. But the thing is that the R32 comes with Xenon's standard. So they're only storing 1 type of bumper there.
The GTI was also optioned with Xenon's a fair amount, so they had to keep 2 types for that model.

But the thing is, even on the GTI, Xenon option might account for only 20% of sales (I have NO idea of the figure, I'm just picking that number based on my observations of GTI's I pass on the roads).

So if only 1 in 5 people pay for a $2k headlight option on a $45k car, how many people would pay that on a $25k or 30k car? 1 in 10? 1 in 20?

You then have to realise that the MK6 also has 'Park Assist' which not only has front parking sensors but the larger side sensor. So they already have to stock 2 models of bumper. If you added the Xenon option to the mix they'd then have to stock 4 models of bumper!

So which one do you think more people would pick on a $30k hatchback? Park Assist, or Xenons?

We all know the answer is Park Assist.

[Stoney!]

Good luck upgrading all your beams to performance bulbs.

I was out today looking to upgrade all my bulbs (high/low beam and foggies) to the Narva Blue power globes, only to find my project scream to a massive hault when it came to the High Beam globes with the store attendant looking at the top of the light cluster and saying "what the **** is a H15 globe".

It seems since the intro of daytime running lights the globe is no longer a standard H7 (with lower voltage for daytime running lights as I initially thought) but a twin filament globe called the H15 designed and only made by osram (in a hella light cluster, go figure...) and to top it off, only used in the Golf VI and Passat CC.

With no performance upgrade for these bulbs it seems we are stuck with the standard high beam globes for now.

I urge anyone thinking of upgrading, those who already know these, or those who just wanna help out, to e-mail osram asking when a high performance alternative of this globe will be released, if the demand is there they need to meet it.

Thanks for your help.
Stoney!

[sillygogo]

I thought the Highbeam looks different.

The low beam is still H7 though, so you can upgrade these. You would use the lowbeam for 90% of the time anyway. I think the highbeam is bright enough for city driving. However if majority of your driving is in the not in the city/suburbia then install some driving lights.

[alphabeatsco]

how to change headlight globe

how to change the headlight globe in mk6.
i want to change to bright white instead of the yelllow headlights.

[alphabeatsco]

thanksss....

[Corey_R]

Have you looked at the manual?

[alphabeatsco]

no i dont have manual.
i am doing this for someone.

[Corey_R]

Look in their manual then

[Maverick]

how to change the headlight globe in mk6.
i want to change to bright white instead of the yelllow headlights.

For what purpose, looks or performance?

Halogen Lights in Golfs

[Spook]

See from 5:40. It's the Mark V however, plus the rest of the segment is quite entertaining too.