I want to do the LED headlight conversion on my wife's B7. I'll be buying this as part of her Christmas presents. Her car does not have factory HID's. I want something like this:


Questions:
1. Is there a step-by-step guide on doing these out there? I'm sure I can figure it out on my own, as I've tackled projects far more advanced than this, but a guide can save a lot of time trying to figure crap out.

2. Is there certain headlight housings that are better than others? I've seen a couple different styles (some like pictured above, others have the curved LED look). Which style tends to look best in person?

3. Are these LED's as bright as the OEM lights in the B8?

4. How did the LED's wire in? I can't recall is her car has daytime running lamps or not, as obviously I'd just wire into those if it does.

5. I plan on doing 5k HID's. Any recommendations? I read that some ballasts will throw a code in this car. My other worry is the ballast won't fire on the first try. I have a cheaper set of ballasts in my Avalanche, and if it is dark out when I start the truck, the ballasts will only light 1/2 of the time. If they kick on while running, they fire 90% of the time (I presume due to the higher running voltage). A quick flick of the high beams to kick them off/on again always gets them to come on, but that's something I don't want my wife to deal with on her car.

6. Did you stick with the stock high-beam lamp, or go with some sort of HID for that as well?

 

Those leds wont be as bright at the stock ones. I think there is a guy on audizine that will bake your headlights pull them apart and install custom ones. his name is fly might try to get in contact with him. I have a b6 but im pretty sure u have a drl on the b7. And for the hids they are hit and miss. I order my hids from ddm tuning and havent had a problem for almost 2 in a half years. And plus they have a life time warranty.

 

I would love to have the same information... surely someone has taken the LED headlights from the B8 and fit them on a B7. ...Surely Audi would have kept things fairly similar between models? I really would like the B8 headlights for my B7. Anyone!? Please tell me it's easily possible.

 

easiest way of doing it is checking on audizine for a guy named fly. He will take ur lights and match them closer then any other aftermarket option wanting to achieve this look.

 

You guys talking about Phil (fly300kts)? His LED conversion is sweet!

 

Dang. Sad to hear that that's the best option available. I was thinking for sure I would be able to get essentially the exact same lights. Oh well, guess if I wanted that I should have bought the B8 huh? Thanks for the help.

 

unfortantly yes he is the best option. No others match as well as his does. Plus he will do your tail lights to match the new led versions also. u should look into it if u want it that bad.