We appreciate this post because if one person thinks this, others might too, so it allows us to reply and explain in more detail. We hope what we are posting below helps everyone reading to better understand our company.
We test all our LEDs to work and look good in your car:
http://deautokey.com/category/leds-for-mk7-gti-golf
You are highlighting where the PCB board meets, that really doesn't mean anything. All LEDs look similar as what works, works. But what really matters is what goes in them like resistors, pcb board, diodes, and then making sure the setup works 100% error free with your car.
It is like comparing a 100w incandescent light bulb to a 25w incandescent light bulb and while they look the same, the brightness is different, to go even further it is like comparing a brand name incandescent bulb to a .99 cent store one. How is the filament manufactured, which will have the color temperature you want, and which one will last longer and be brighter? The saying you get what you paid for is very true here.
We feel the entire post is here because you feel we are buying cheap alibaba LEDs and selling them for a huge markup, trust us, we are not, the cost to manufacture with quality material cost a lot and we oversee all production and manufacturing to our specifications to ensure the quality and material is the best.
Don't get us wrong here, we understand 100% why you would make posts like this but it simply NOT true and we do appreciate again having the chance to explain here on the forums.
We get many emails daily about other LEDs not working correctly, causing errors, not looking right, or even melting housings, take a look at this post:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthre...-LED-bulbs-and-why-to-only-buy-from-DeAutoKey
And this email - because our LEDs looked like as another LED which melted their housing (common issue according to google search) they thought ours would too, which is NOT true, we test ours to make sure heat is directed and voltage is right in the VW - the wrong setup can cause the issue (we blacked out other company LED name as we are not here to bash any other company) :
And if you want to see national brand name comparing to ours - a customer made a post about it:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthre...Stage-I-reverse-bulbs-installed-review-inside!
Another unfortunate issue happened a month ago where a vendor's license plate LEDs melted the bumper of a customer, we bring this up as we get this question a lot due to other bad experiences people had with LEDs - we want to clear it up, we test to make sure this won't happen!
To recap, we understand your concern and why you are saying this and we want to educate anyone who will listen. If you see a similar looking $1000 handbag being sold for $10.00 on eBay no one will try to defend the $10.00 vs a $1000 bag as they understand what a $10 vs $1000 means. It is the same concept here, our quality and what we put into our LEDs will always matter and what will always separates us vs cheaper LEDs.
Thank you - everyone should know we put our customers first and our friendly staff is virtually available 24/7 to help you.
And let me tell you, when you deal with LEDs that don't work, that don't look right, or when you try to contact someone in alibaba 3 months later or have a terrible customer service experience in general, people quickly come to us to literally see the difference in bulb quality and customer service.
At the end of the day we are here for our customers and when you shop with us you will be 100% satisfied and with our lifetime warranty you have the peace of mind that after you shop with us you NEVER have to buy another LED.
We are modest and we would never post this out of nowhere, but since we are here....
We have had customers unfortunately get into car accidents where our LEDs were damaged and we replaced them even though our warranty is only for the actual LED going out.
We recently had a customer who bought our interior LED kit for one car, and dome lights for another car... A few months later he said he had an issue with one of the trunk LEDs, when we received the LED back it it was not ours but a competitor LED from the forums, but we helped him out, we replaced the COMPETITOR bulb that went out with ours because he is our customer regardless.
For the license plates FITMENT: they added a clip that is not required and the MK7 only has this, and for the 2016 models, VW added less metal to the back of the bumper, there is no difference between 2015 as our license plate housing fits fine, but in 2016 we noticed the thinner metal made our license plates housing appear to fit "loose" but they are in there securely and they make a strong connection with the trunk liner and there won't be any issues.
You can go with the less intense model where you use your OEM housing.
We have many people running our MK7 License Plate with 0 issues and they are very happy.
Less intense LED housing:
http://deautokey.com/product/mkvii-gti-license-plate-leds-error-free-plug-play
