What did you do to your van today?

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[mention]the swan fiend [/mention] can’t speak for them but last week I stuck some LED bulbs in and was disappointed, The white light just got absorbed in this winter weather. Stuck a HID kit in yesterday and it was a night and day difference. I spent more on the LED bulbs than the entire HID kit . The beam pattern for the LEDs were fine in a projector but just didn’t have any distance on the beam. For fog lights I couldn’t imagine they’re too great unless you get yellow ones maybe.


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Cheers for that oldgregg

I have heard it mentioned previously that LED bulbs aren’t great, but I was wondering if they’ve improved recently. Maybe I need to wait a little longer!


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Back in October I did the wireless charger mod. I got fed up after waiting 6 weeks for the person literally across the road to cut this. So in under 48 hours on Fiverr I had this on my doorstep from Germany

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@Beaker2135
What a fantastic idea.
Have you got the link for that?
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@Beaker2135

Great mod Steve, carbon too! Would also love a link for that


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Thanks guys. Alas it’s all my own work. Check out @caddyluv how to thread
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I’ve just realised my phone has wireless Charing capability. This mod could be another small step into dragging my technophobic self into the 20th (sorry, 21st) century.


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@Doc is this the same you're on about with coding out the bulb errors?Image

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[mention]the swan fiend [/mention]

I pulled over on my way home tonight & took a quick pic only managed to get a picture of dipped beam.

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I’m pretty happy with them, nice colour with a good beam spread & this was without having fog lights on.

Will try to get a main beam & fog lights tomorrow on way home all being well.


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@Dubbsley what bulbs are they. They're way better than mine

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caddychris2002 wrote:@Dubbsley what bulbs are they. They're way better than mine

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[mention]caddychris2002 [/mention] the links are a little further up in this thread mate.


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@Dubbsley
That’s crystal clear mate 👍 wish my dipped view was as good :mrgreen:
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[mention]the swan fiend [/mention] it’s such a cheap easy conversion do over January full lockdown when we have it.


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@dubsley. They’re spot on mate


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Just looked on the bay they have no h4 leds left lol

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