LED Number Plate Lights

[markwid]

See..have some faith in your fellow dubbers.

[CrimDub]

My Globes that I ordered 2 weeks ago from the UK STILL haven't arrived! Have to find another use for them now...

have you done the Parkers or interior yet?

[chopper]

have you done the Parkers or interior yet?

Are they the same globes? This might start something...

Parkers might be interesting... are they easy to get to?

[CrimDub]

Are they the same globes? This might start something...

Do a search on here, there are threads about it!

Should be w5w/194/T10 for most of the interior (except vanity and cargo) and for parkers. I'm addicted just quietly looks so much better than stock.

Parkers might be interesting... are they easy to get to?

I've got halogens, they are little bit tricky to get your hand in but not to bad. Think I saw you got xenons, not sure if it's different. Someone on here will tell ya!

We can continue this in another thread though, otherwise moderators will get angry

[Corey_R]

So I'd have to say that this is one of the easiest and quickest mods you can do.

I too ordered the R Dash lights from eBay. They took ~5 days to arrive.
I installed them in <5 minutes, in extremely bad light (had to grab a torch), and that included mounting the resistor boxes!

The resistor boxes have 3 sides which are aluminium heatsinks, and then 1 side which is black plastic (plus the 2 ends which are also plastic). I'll I did was cut a small piece of 3M clear double sided tape, place it on the black plastic back of the resistor box, and then used both index fingers to guide the resistor box into place inside the rear bumper. I positioned it on the "top inside surface" of the rear bumper, with the "back edge" of the box roughly in-line with the light hole opening. In other words, I placed the resistor box closer to front of the car so that it has no chance to foul the light housing and more room to dissipate heat.

I used 3M Scotch 4010 Heavy Duty Mouting tape (which I also used to mount my eTag on my windscreen, and for mounting my number plates temporarily from the dealership) since it is easy to work with, easy to remove if necessary, and is also resistant to cold temps AND hot temps.


I must admit that I am one of these people who have held off from previous "number plate light LED kits" due to the concerns about them either having crap light dispersion or being too bright. IMO these suffer from neither issue. Apart from actually being "white", they are not too much brighter than stock - I'd equate it to the diff between halogen headlights and xenon headlights.

[Vaku]

I used the same method as Corey, with the 3M tape to the upper/inner side of the hole - just hope it holds.. took it for a test run on a bumpy road and they still work.. and no rattles so guess they did.

auto blur's my plates also.. har har



lets see how long they last now.

[astro]

Looks good.

Interested to see how long they stay in place for.

[Brendan_A]

Looks good.

Interested to see how long they stay in place for.

The lights aren't going to move anywhere. They clip in just like the OEM lights. The only thing that might move is the resistor box cause the 3M tape lets go.

I've had mine in for over two month now and no problems.

[Corey_R]

The 3M tape ain't going to let go on them if you've used the one that I suggested. It can withstand items much hotter and heavier than these resistor boxes. I've been using this model on various things for about 3 years now

[chopper]

Does anyone have any experience of how hot the resistor boxes get?

[Corey_R]

Not yet... the "release clip" on the R Dash lights is actually more protected than the OEM lights. I was going to unclip one and stick my finger in to see how hot it was after driving to work this morning. But unlike the OEM lights, my finger nails weren't enough!

[CrimDub]

So I have some LED bulbs with resisters built in, no probs with bulb out warning. tonight I put the same ones in a gti and they through a code?? Mine as you can see is a '10' golf wagon, the gti is '10' as well. Differences are gti has xenons and R tails. Could it be a coding thing? Has got me stumped!

[Brendan_A]

Does anyone have any experience of how hot the resistor boxes get?

No. But my rear bumper hasn't distorted from any excess heat or caught on fire yet. Lol

[Glennb]

Can someone paste up the link to where you can buy the number plate lights again please?

[Vaku]

Can someone paste up the link to where you can buy the number plate lights again please?

VW 2010 golf 6 LED license plate light no error | eBay

Corey, I noticed that also - the clip sits much further in, guessing you need a flathead to be able to remove them?