Quick Bulb Question

Dec 15, 2007
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Hi don't post on here that much these days but my Leon FR 57 plate has blown a headlight bulb, I have been thinking of upgrading anyway so a good excuse now.

Are these bulb types correct -

Dipped Beam - H7
Main Beam - H1
Front Fog - H3

Front Indicator / Rear Indicator - 581
Sidelight / Side Indicator - 501
Stop / Tail / Reverese / Rear Fog - 382
Number Plate 239

Cheers
 
Dec 15, 2007
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Ok just went out to change the bulbs....

Dipped - 2x H7 55w OSRAM Night Breaker Plus Bulbs 12v [64210NBP] - Work fine

Full Beam - 2x H1 55w OSRAM Night Breaker Plus Bulbs 12v [64150NBP] - Throw an error ???

LED 501's - 2 x 8 LED 501 T10 W5W WEDGE CANBUS NO ERROR SIDE LIGHTS - Throw an error too ???

Anything I am doing wrong here ?

I didn't take the old H1's out just the connector and then tried them, should I take them all the way out, can't see that will make a difference? Also can't work out why the LED's don't work, tried them both ways around too....
 
Dec 15, 2007
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I did the H7s first as one had gone amyway and they were the easiest to get to.... No problem.

Then i tried the others and no joy with any of them... Not too worried about the LEDs but surprised the nightbreakers threw a fault.... i will try again without touching the LEDs and see what happens.....
 
Dec 15, 2007
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Are you sure it's not the leds throwing the error for the main beam too?

Spot on, left the LEDs alone and now H7s & H1s working absolutely fine.... Anyone got a link to some LEDs that will be ok?
Got mine off eBay and it said guaranteed canbus no error!!!
They were cheap and I can use them as spares on my Zed but should I just get ultrabrite normal 501 bulbs?
 

/dev/null

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Nov 12, 2008
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I'd just stick with normal 501's to be honest - if you're after white ones then you can get some which look pretty well.
 

greyfloppyhat

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You'll have to restart the system each time you put an LED in or swicth the poles around on it. If it doesn't work, lights of and keys out, turn it around, keys in, lights on and then check. I've been threw a good few sets of LEDs with varying amounts of SMD's to get the color I wanted and I've never encounter any faults with them
 
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