aays06
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- New York, USA
Guys and Gals i wanted to take some time to do a diy and review of eds replica golf r headlights. I have taken a good amount of pics and will try to do my best with diy. its pretty straight forward and not that hard at all to install. it does take some time to do the install, but very easy at that.. i highly recommend these lights from ED.....
here is ed's information edward@becautoparts.com again i am not affiliated with edward im just a consumer who bought his product and wanted to share my thoughts...
INSTALL
total time approx 2 hrs.
tools needed. t25, t30, 10mm nut driver or ratchet, flat head screwdriver and some basic mechanical skill and patience.....
Here are pics of the packaging arriving and lights pulled out...
Next lets start the install...
The first thing you will need to do is take your t25 tool and remove the two bolts seen in the picture for the middle grill... once removed pull back gently toward front of car and lift up till it pops out....
now that you have the grill apart i moved to the wheel liners next to remove those bolts.. i turned my wheel all the way to the left to do both sides...
inside the wheel well you will have 4 t25 screws that need to be removed.. 2 up top, one in middle, and one at bottom....
after removing the 4 screws you will need to pull back the liner and look directly up where the bumper would meet the fender on the inside... there you will find the two 10mm bolts holding bumper tight to fender... these do not need to be completely removed just loosened to release bumper from fender..
after you loosen those two bolts, proceed to the other side of car to do the same thing.. once you do both sides you gently peel the bumper from the fender.. you will here a slight pop as the bumper leaves the clips holding it on..your bumper should now look like this..
once you have bumper peeled away from fender you will need to pull side of bumper away from vehicle to access a bolt that holds headlight in.. i belive its a t30 bolt inside the bumper where it meets the fender..
now that you have removed that bolt proceed back to front of car to remove headlights.. first you will want to remove the support bracket for the headlights shown in picture below.. there is three bolts holding this piece on all using the t30 tool..
once bracket is removed on both sides proceed to take out two more t30 bolts from headlight. one is at base of back of headlight and one is in front near the middle grill area as scene in pic below.
once those two bolts are removed you have to gently pull down on front of bumper towards you in middle of car so you can remove headlights.. i will show you a pic where the bumper clips to the car all in the middle if you pull back the bumper will release from these clips allowing you to remove headlight.. just a simple pull will release bumper enough to take out headlights..
once headlight is removed there is two tabs support brackets that hold headlight in car that need to be removed from stock headlight and swapped to new headlight.. this is where the flathead screwdriver comes into place...simply just slide these tabs off and put on new headlight...
now i do not have pictures of the next part but if your headlights come with hid kit like mine did wire those up... simply put the bulb into low beam socket and plug wires into harness and run wires throught the dust cap to ballast...
now simply put headlight back into place and connect new wire harness that comes with headlights... be sure to put all bolts back on tightly and dont forget about the bolt that goes into the side of headlight where bumper meets fender...from here its pretty much just reassembling everything you took off in the order it came off...the car should look like this once headlights are in..
here is a pic of one golf r light and one stock... you can see what a dramatic difference it makes....
once you put in headlights dont fully tighten them yet... put middle grill back in and align the headlight so they sit flush with grill then tighten all bolts... and insert grill back and tighten all together....
this should be finished look
and finally here is some pics of the hid and cutoff.. the projectors place a very nice beam patters much better then oem i think.... i still need a little adjustment.....
Sorry for all the long pics and story line, but i felt i wanted to give a thorough diy and review... These lights can be had from ed, and for the $620 they were i think they are a excellent price... the led's are super bright and the projectors seem top notch.... i could not be happier with this purchase... time will tell how they hold up, but from beginning purchase point they are well worth it to change out those yucky halogens from the factory... and by the way they work exactly like the originals the leds turn off when turn signal goes on just like factory as well.... And another great selling point is Ed backs up his products with a 1 year warranty unlike the other companies. he responds back every day with emails if you need to get ahold of him... i highly recommend buying from ed if you are interested in a set of lights......
if anyone has questions feel free to pm me for install, and pm or email ed for the purchase at edward@becautoparts.com
here is ed's information edward@becautoparts.com again i am not affiliated with edward im just a consumer who bought his product and wanted to share my thoughts...
INSTALL
total time approx 2 hrs.
tools needed. t25, t30, 10mm nut driver or ratchet, flat head screwdriver and some basic mechanical skill and patience.....
Here are pics of the packaging arriving and lights pulled out...
Next lets start the install...
The first thing you will need to do is take your t25 tool and remove the two bolts seen in the picture for the middle grill... once removed pull back gently toward front of car and lift up till it pops out....
now that you have the grill apart i moved to the wheel liners next to remove those bolts.. i turned my wheel all the way to the left to do both sides...
inside the wheel well you will have 4 t25 screws that need to be removed.. 2 up top, one in middle, and one at bottom....
after removing the 4 screws you will need to pull back the liner and look directly up where the bumper would meet the fender on the inside... there you will find the two 10mm bolts holding bumper tight to fender... these do not need to be completely removed just loosened to release bumper from fender..
after you loosen those two bolts, proceed to the other side of car to do the same thing.. once you do both sides you gently peel the bumper from the fender.. you will here a slight pop as the bumper leaves the clips holding it on..your bumper should now look like this..
once you have bumper peeled away from fender you will need to pull side of bumper away from vehicle to access a bolt that holds headlight in.. i belive its a t30 bolt inside the bumper where it meets the fender..
now that you have removed that bolt proceed back to front of car to remove headlights.. first you will want to remove the support bracket for the headlights shown in picture below.. there is three bolts holding this piece on all using the t30 tool..
once bracket is removed on both sides proceed to take out two more t30 bolts from headlight. one is at base of back of headlight and one is in front near the middle grill area as scene in pic below.
once those two bolts are removed you have to gently pull down on front of bumper towards you in middle of car so you can remove headlights.. i will show you a pic where the bumper clips to the car all in the middle if you pull back the bumper will release from these clips allowing you to remove headlight.. just a simple pull will release bumper enough to take out headlights..
once headlight is removed there is two tabs support brackets that hold headlight in car that need to be removed from stock headlight and swapped to new headlight.. this is where the flathead screwdriver comes into place...simply just slide these tabs off and put on new headlight...
now i do not have pictures of the next part but if your headlights come with hid kit like mine did wire those up... simply put the bulb into low beam socket and plug wires into harness and run wires throught the dust cap to ballast...
now simply put headlight back into place and connect new wire harness that comes with headlights... be sure to put all bolts back on tightly and dont forget about the bolt that goes into the side of headlight where bumper meets fender...from here its pretty much just reassembling everything you took off in the order it came off...the car should look like this once headlights are in..
here is a pic of one golf r light and one stock... you can see what a dramatic difference it makes....
once you put in headlights dont fully tighten them yet... put middle grill back in and align the headlight so they sit flush with grill then tighten all bolts... and insert grill back and tighten all together....
this should be finished look
and finally here is some pics of the hid and cutoff.. the projectors place a very nice beam patters much better then oem i think.... i still need a little adjustment.....
Sorry for all the long pics and story line, but i felt i wanted to give a thorough diy and review... These lights can be had from ed, and for the $620 they were i think they are a excellent price... the led's are super bright and the projectors seem top notch.... i could not be happier with this purchase... time will tell how they hold up, but from beginning purchase point they are well worth it to change out those yucky halogens from the factory... and by the way they work exactly like the originals the leds turn off when turn signal goes on just like factory as well.... And another great selling point is Ed backs up his products with a 1 year warranty unlike the other companies. he responds back every day with emails if you need to get ahold of him... i highly recommend buying from ed if you are interested in a set of lights......
if anyone has questions feel free to pm me for install, and pm or email ed for the purchase at edward@becautoparts.com