NightOwl

Living in Norway I bought it in here and looks like this with 5 SMD LEDs.
Is "parking light" the wrong words, I'm sorry. What could be right?




I might add that it needed this plug and play resistor to not give error message.

Mister Bally

Those resistors draw all the current and dissapate about the same heat as incandescent bulbs.

NightOwl

I'm not sure how many watts the W5W LEDs I've used, but I would estimate about 1,5-2 watts (compared to other LED's in my house). The resistor is marked with 3,2 watt, so in total the current drawn would be like the incandescent. Kept inside the headlight will make the headlight nice and warm, and prevent condensation while driving with only park light and fog light lit in rainy foggy autumn days.

A6S4

What is the part number (and source) for HID bulbs for the fog lights? My dealer says there is no such thing (surprise!). Stock foggers seem to be useless other than cosmetic.

Thanks in advance.

mishar

From my experience HID's will be just as useful. Especially if you go to a whiter ones. They are not plug and play. You have to drill big holes on the back of your fogs and find the place for additional electronics. Besides that they might (mine did) give you error from time to time. I am in Canada and Canadian DRL setting is to fogs. With that setup I was getting error every time I started the engine. To clear it I had to turn fog's on and off by the switch. So now I am back to halogens. I will go for yellow ones soon. That's much better light for fogy nights.

Fez2013

I have gotten all my HID kits from DDMtuning.com. The H7 kit comes with the HID bulbs, ballasts. You will likely need to add the resistors for error free usage. I did this on my BMW 7 series with no issues. Choose the Kelvin temp of choice - 4300k - 6000k which would be the bright white option. Like Mishar said, you will need to drill some holes for the wires. There might be another way, using the existing connection, but I haven't checked into it yet.

NightOwl

I can confirm that my 35W Xenon/HID-kit is working fine, no extra resistors and still no error message or light out message.

A6S4

Thanks all for feedback.

NightOwl

Updated with better picture.



Much better than the diesel style (picture borrowed online).

Fez2013

I like those mud flaps, care to share part numbers?