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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: bertmort8 on 14 February 2010, 15:29
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im on the standard ones but looking at buying new brighter ones
looked at these so far
http://www.powerbulbs.com/product_detail.asp?prod=81
or
http://www.powerbulbs.com/product_detail.asp?prod=25
cheers
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I have both. I'm running X-treme Powers in the mk5 and Bluevisions in the Vento. The Bluevisions have a whiter light, I could never see any blue in it really. The X-treme powers are slightly less white but the light output is much better. My daily commute is always early morning or late night and I would never go back to anything less than the X-treme Power bulbs. The output is fantastic :cool:
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i have osram night breakers and the philips blue vision side lights from there and theyre great :smiley:
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I brought 2 pairs of the Philips X-treme Power bulbs (one set for main beam, 2nd for high beam) and also fitted the Philips sidelights that came free with the order from powebulbs.com.
Great set of lights, and if you get them from powerblubs with the forum discount code, they are at a pretty good price too.
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Philips X-treme Power bulbs
Ditto, Im also running the bluevision ones which come free from powerbulbs when you order the X=treme ones in the side.
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I brought 2 pairs of the Philips X-treme Power bulbs (one set for main beam, 2nd for high beam) and also fitted the Philips sidelights that came free with the order from powebulbs.com.
Great set of lights, and if you get them from powerblubs with the forum discount code, they are at a pretty good price too.
yeh thinking the same tbh.
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Well worth it, the x-treme ones are a great set of bulbs, and i have heard nothing but good things about the night breakers too, which are a little cheaper!
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do they just replace straight in to where the old ones were.
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Yeah you just need to get the H7 ones if you own a GTI. Powerbulbs has a pretty straight forward way of making sure you get the right ones. You just enter in your car details and it tells you which bulbs you need to get for which light.
The main beams are easy to replace by just twisting off the old set and popping in the new ones. The high beams are a little harder as they are held in place by a wire cage, but still not that hard to do. As for the sidelights, some people on here complain about how hard they are to replace, as they have hurt their fingers trying to pull out the sidelight housing, but I found it dead easy. I just used a set of vice grips and to pull out the housing and then pushed it back in with my hand, easy as pie.
There is a thread under the Mark V section somewhere with pictures and stuff, no idea where though?
One thing I did do though after replacing the lights was get the alignment checked, but my car was going in for DSG oil change anyway so it wasn’t too much hassle to get the stealers to do that at the same time. The brilliant thing was the stealer I brought the car from paid for all the work I had done which is nice.
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not got a gti, only got the gt. but brings up the same result H7
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H7 is fine, the light clusters for the MK5 are all the same.
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Make sure to get the headlight alignment done afterwards :afro:
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i have osram night breakers and the philips blue vision side lights from there and theyre great :smiley: