OEM LED tail lights in hand! Help requested!

[Verebs1]

Darn.. should have waited for a later model

You could do it yourself or pay the dealer to install (god only knows what they would charge). Or like I said I am making flipside a plug and play harness and can do the same for anyone else, just PM me for details.

[gt4ever]

You could do it yourself or pay the dealer to install (god only knows what they would charge). Or like I said I am making flipside a plug and play harness and can do the same for anyone else, just PM me for details.

Rather pay the dealer and let them do it professionally though.
I guess the best thing I can do now is to replace the drl to led :p
By any chance you know where can I find genuine jetta optional accessories like body kits etc?

[Verebs1]

Rather pay the dealer and let them do it professionally though.
I guess the best thing I can do now is to replace the drl to led :p
By any chance you know where can I find genuine jetta optional accessories like body kits etc?

There is a body kit thread.

Also You dont need to pay the dealer to make you a harness and then plug it in lol. You wouldnt pay someone to make you breakfast and start your car too... or would you???

[clutchrider]

There is a body kit thread.

Also You dont need to pay the dealer to make you a harness and then plug it in lol. You wouldnt pay someone to make you breakfast and start your car too... or would you???

So your making a harness to plug n' play these? Is that w/ or w/o the need for computer work? We definitely need to meetup.

[Verebs1]

So your making a harness to plug n' play these? Is that w/ or w/o the need for computer work? We definitely need to meetup.

Im not 100% on that as I havent got a pair to try and the parts arent all here but when they arrive and I ship them im sure flipside will tell me. If any VCDS is required it should be easy to turn off the bulb monitoring.

[Verebs1]

BTW found this /Fail today


No LED tails LOL

[jettsy]

looks like gli tails...


btw thats a terrible ad

[Verebs1]

looks like gli tails...


btw thats a terrible ad

Yeah Agreed BTW did you read the comments LMAO

[Verebs1]

We installed the lights in this Jetta GLI in Mexico left some videos







Test!
http://youtu.be/iOxM32jfyiI

Installed!
http://youtu.be/7L2HTusjkIM

Had a question about how you wired the outer tail lights as in your friends video they are correct. VW Surf wired his wrong.

[flipside99]

Halfway there!

http://youtu.be/hlnldqtRieg

[flipside99]

Need some coding help if anyone can chime in..

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...a-Tsi-Highline

[flipside99]

Finally got everything working perfectly. It required code 53 and byte 18. No errors and all lights working as they should.

[Clyde Smith]

Noted

Post up more photos!

[flipside99]

More pics and a video..

[EuRoGTI86]

[bmain0407]

I just purchased a set of the tails off oemvagparts now I need to figure out how to wire them up like flipside99

[flipside99]

I just purchased a set of the tails off oemvagparts now I need to figure out how to wire them up like flipside99

Contact Verebs1, he's making adapters.

[Verebs1]

These are Flipside's


(The end connectors are missing because he already has them)
BTW these support rear fog if you have lights with it.

These

[JuanERdz]

Success! Flipside's byte 18 coding (53) works perfectly if all you add are the led tails and have an 086 CECM. Thanks to flipside and JETTA BRAZIL's excellent writeup on his blog. Made for a super simple install. Pics incoming.


'13 GLI Autobahn

[JuanERdz]

Success! Flipside's byte 18 coding (53) works perfectly if all you add are the led tails and have an 086 CECM. Thanks to flipside and JETTA BRAZIL's excellent writeup on his blog. Made for a super simple install. Pics incoming.


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Spoke too soon. After looking carefully, it seems my brake lights are a little dim. the turn signals are fine (nice and bright). Will experiment with more coding. Mine does not have rear fog from the factory so that might explain why the code does not work for me. With my default 00, I only got errors for left and right tail light. None for brake or turn signals. Code 53 gives no errors but not enough brightness.

[flipside99]

Well.. we might be using the wrong code, although I think the brightness is fine... we're most certainly wired wrong.

This appears to be the only video so far of what the LED tails are supposed to look like from the factory. (Go to 1:55)



I can't be sure without seeing the turn signals on, but it appears to be much closer to OEM VAG PARTS who posted this before:



Now this is the confusing part.. The outer lights only have 3 pins in the plug. According to the bottom video there are 3 separate lights (Parking, brake and signal) which would mean 4 pins (1 for each light plug ground)..So either there's 2 versions of these lights floating around or mine are broken.

[kimilein]

Now this is the confusing part.. The outer lights only have 3 pins in the plug. According to the bottom video there are 3 separate lights (Parking, brake and signal) which would mean 4 pins (1 for each light plug ground)..So either there's 2 versions of these lights floating around or mine are broken.

I'm guessing there is a US version and a EU version. VW has been moving to using all red brake/running/directional lights so the EU version likely has a turn signal element for amber turn signals that is missing from the US version.

Opinion plug: I think red turn signals looks like ass. Especially where they use a single bulb/element for both. Looks cheap and looks like a copout to be cheap.

[flipside99]

I agree, but.. The Hybrid is only for the NAM market, so why would there be 2 versions of the tail lights?

[Verebs1]

There is a euro hybrid

[JuanERdz]

I agree, but.. The Hybrid is only for the NAM market, so why would there be 2 versions of the tail lights?

I believe they are beggining to offer these as options in the EU. So thats probably why. I havent had time to experiment any further but I do think we are wired right because that is how the stock lights work and that is how similar lights on Golf and EOS work as well.


'13 GLI Autobahn

[JuanERdz]

Well.. we might be using the wrong code, although I think the brightness is fine... we're most certainly wired wrong.

This appears to be the only video so far of what the LED tails are supposed to look like from the factory. (Go to 1:55)

I see what you mean with the video. But then where are the turn signals? Would it be like most american cars that use the same bulb for brake and turn? I think how we wired them looks much better.


'13 GLI Autobahn

[mkvowner]

So if 53 worked for byte 18, then what was it before? Any more thoughts on the brightness of them?

Finally got everything working perfectly. It required code 53 and byte 18. No errors and all lights working as they should.

[Verebs1]

The turn signals are where I told you they were, in the clear lens on the outer lamps just like the Passat has.

Similar to this

[flipside99]

While I thought that was the case from the mexican's video, there's no wire for them.

[Verebs1]

While I thought that was the case from the mexican's video, there's no wire for them.

thats so strange, I need to get my hands on a pair of these and check them out.

[flipside99]

As you can see in this picture from earlier in the thread, only 3 pins.. ground, parking/brake, signal, there would need to be a 4th pin for the signals to be in the clear part.

[Verebs1]

Right but three wires doent mean three bulbs, as I think they multipurposed one wire. Were you ever able to take that thing apart? It should be possible as there is a light bulb in there in some set of the LED tails as the parts list shows it.

[flipside99]

A bulb? and not LED?

[flipside99]

ok, I'm tearing this bitch apart after lunch.. It's driving me nuts.

[Verebs1]

Yeah the parts diagram shows a regular bulb with the LED tail light, there is only one part # set in the catalog for them where as the inner lights have multiple sets (one for NAR, one for EUR, and one for UK). The Item #6 is the back-up light which we already know is also a regular bulb.