Parking lamp LED's?

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• Jul 27, 2017

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so i know something called a parking lamp is out on the car, so instead of just replacing it, is it possible to replace with some brighter better led's and if so which ones please.

 

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• Jul 28, 2017

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Parking lights are effectively the side lights. They can be replaced with LEDs and straight up good canbus bulbs should work. Other bulbs in the car are more picky and require resistors to upgrade to LEDs, but these are fine.

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• Jul 28, 2017

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Jack Kelly said:

Parking lights are effectively the side lights. They can be replaced with LEDs and straight up good canbus bulbs should work. Other bulbs in the car are more picky and require resistors to upgrade to LEDs, but these are fine.

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from here can you show me quality error free ones for parking and reversing. https://www.hids-direct.co.uk/

or any other place that you know of.

 

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• Jul 28, 2017

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It's on nick's car blog, I wouldn't want to say exactly which ones to buy but he shows you which ones he buys.

http://nickscarblog.com/diy/led-city-lights-diy-for-b7-audi-a4s4rs4

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• Jul 28, 2017

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what does adding resistors do?

im guessing give these led's (any led's) more power

 

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• Jul 28, 2017

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question, are the parking light and reversing light the same ones?

 

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• Jul 28, 2017

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Due to the way audi have set the electrics up they are really picky about what bulbs they select. If you just added the LEDs without the resistors in many cases the lights wouldn't work and it would throw up an error on your dashboard. The parking lights are usually okay without them though.

Do you mean at ether the same bulb?

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• Jul 28, 2017

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Jack Kelly said:

Due to the way audi have set the electrics up they are really picky about what bulbs they select. If you just added the LEDs without the resistors in many cases the lights wouldn't work and it would throw up an error on your dashboard. The parking lights are usually okay without them though.

Do you mean at ether the same bulb?

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yeah , are both parking light and reversing light the same

 

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No they're not the same.

 

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• Jul 29, 2017

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is it just 2 front parking lights or is it all four?