« Reply #3 on: 13 April 2015, 10:28 »
It was quite a while ago I fitted my Osrams (a year and a half) so can't remember a huge amount about the fitting but what I do remember is that it was a million times easier than getting the uprated bulbs in my first mk6 (halogen lights) which were a real pig to fit. The mk7 ones I remember being surprisingly easy so fingers crossed the LED bulbs will slide in ok - we just need a guinea pig now...
You're quite right about light output, these are just cosmetic bulbs really and the reason most of us uprated the H7's in the first place was to try to get the light colour nearer to those of the xenon bulbs and LED U lights.
Funnily enough having been in a brief drive in a Leon with LED headlamps and obviously a few VW's with Xenons headlights I think I still prefer halogen bulbs (uprated from crappy factory ones obviously) as the cut off is more gradual. On main beam the MK7 Xenons are awesome but I find the cut off too sharp on dipped beam (living in a hilly and bendy part of the world). I didn't get to see the Leon on full beam but would assume it similar to the Xenons and again the cut off is too sharp for my liking - I like to read the road ahead not just 30 feet ahead!
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