angel eyes on mk5 vw gti?
 

just curious to know what you guys think of this...

http://www.tekarbon.com/VW/AE/DSC04155.JPGhttp://www.tekarbon.com/VW/AE/DSC02174.JPG
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(can't seem to be able to set up a poll anymore.... mods? help?)

I have them on my 3. They certainly look cool, but can be quite a headache, both in terms of installation and upkeep.

If the installation is anything like our cars, the process takes 6-8 hours if doing it yourself and requires that the bumper be taken off, the headlight housings be taken out. The housings will need to be "heated" so the glue holding the lens to the housing can come apart. Adhere the DDE rings and wire, then re-heat the housings and put back together.

I've had a lot of problems on mine with the ballasts failing. YMMV.

Kev

BMW wannabe

I personally like the look, but then you'll get alot of ppl calling you this ^

get the hella Dyna Lights search i up its unique its hella

i think it looks nice. use it as drl

i saw a gti with angel eyes on the road once.. looked pretty good

yeah they do look nice. i looked into them before. wanted to get it for my gf's mk5 gti but it is quite costly.

hella dynabeams are the way to go for that... angel eyes on anything but a bimmer... same as LED's on anything but an audi... they just don't look right IMO...

looks pretty badass

nice photon cannons

ohhh
ABT
ahaha

Don't Do It!!!

I was planning to get Hella Celis for my MK4 ,but they cost around 800-900 retail. Apparently PGPerformance sells them for around 1100. For that price I could get VAG OEM HID's. It's too much work for the Mk5s to "retrofit" the Angel eye "rings". :) The stock headlights look nice already. :) If you want something different, much like what "aznboi128" said. Just get the Hella dynaBeam Headlights. :) They're pretty awesome.

I know everyone says BMW Wannabe but I would say that it almost looks factory on this car> too much work for not being original and probably not lasting more than a month though in my opinion.....

i was thinking of picking these up when i get my gti, i think they look pretty cool, but angel eyes are a bmw thing, the gti already has hid's, and these lights are probably going to cost you around 500, imo your better off spending the money on a vortex lip kit. The stock gti headlights are already superior to the lighting systems on most cars. if you want to do something different do this:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7614/img1546zm1.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/hsemara/.Pictures/r32leds3.jpg

basically what you do is buy the s6 led's for about 400, and you install them in the bumper. And vw and audi are the same company, so it works!
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4180136
read this thread also, this guy just bought a cheap strip of led's as opposed to buying the expensive s6 ones

thanks for the opinions and keeping it relatively clean everyone :)

http://www.tekarbon.com is where this came from. the retrofit including clearing out the signal lights is $300usd, but there is no core so they expect you to ship your existing headlights to them to do the work. 2 week turnaround incl. shipping time.

but as some have said... bmw wannabe ballast exploding money wasting mod.

Save the money, and get the oem votex lip kit, r32 rear apron + custom center exhaust.. (y)

it looks pretty nice on the gti.

the other dad i saw the puke color m3 in richmond with the same kind of LED strip use as signals.

god damn, can we please keep the angel eyes on BMW please. If i wanted angel eyes i'd buy a BMW not a VW....

I saw that car too. Didn't look very nice IMO.

Kev

I don't know if its the same car, few years back the puck color car had a lot less stuff on it and it clean and not too bad. not it just looks like he got bore and tack anything he could find on to the car

I agree, they do look very similar to the factory lights on a GTi. But it look nice on the vw tho imo.

i really want to get those led's for my car now.. :crybaby:

it looks alright, jsut not used to it on a non-bmw

get LEDs. They dun use ballast so the chance of failing is lower than the old type of angel eyes