Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today it's how to replace your Volkswagen T5
daytime running bulbs with LED bulbs, the daytime running bulbs come on as soon as the ignition is
on and whenever you're driving, now the standard filament bulbs are 21 watts each so that's two
bulbs at 21 watts that's 42 watts of power draining your battery when the engine isn't
even running, and sometimes if you're just sitting there with the ignition on that is draining the
battery, what I'm going to do today is upgrade them to LED which is a nice white beam and is much
lower wattage, make sure if you get any LED bulbs for your Van that they've got Canbus technology
within them otherwise the wattage is so low that the computer on the Volkswagen T5 thinks the
bulbs have blown even though they're working, and you may get a fault light up on your dashboard,
so the Canbus technology fools them into thinking that they're actually working. Okay first thing
you need to do is open the bonnet or the hood and there's a link above now about how to do that
and the daytime running bulbs are behind this rubber cover just here
and on the other side it's under the same cover but today I'm only going to show you
how to replace one of them because obviously the other side is exactly the same procedure
First of all take this rubber cover off it literally just pulls away it just slides on on a
small kind of rib system so just take that off put that somewhere safe and the daytime
running bulb is the bottom bulb in this set so we've got the daytime running bulb there
and the one on the top is your indicator bulb so we're interested in this one at the bottom.
There's a link above now about how to remove the rear light cluster on this Volkswagen T5.
Now if you've got big hands like me and sausage fingers this is a bit of an awkward place to
get your hands inside, you may get a few scrazed knuckles and a little bit of blood so I advise you
to wear a glove or something unless you've got really small hands of course! So get your hand
in there and get a good grip on the bottom bulb and then what you do is you turn it, so from
inside you're turning it anti-clockwise but as we're facing it here on the video you're turning
it clockwise you're turning it about 25 to 45 degrees and then it should just pull towards you
that whole bulb unit is now removed
to remove the bulb gently push it down twist it anti-clockwise about
15-20 degrees and then it should just pull out
There we go and it just locks into position with those parallel pins,
whilst I'm doing that there's a link above now about the Volkswagen T5
fuse box locations and how to check the fuses, and if we look at the bulb here
it's saying that it's 12 volts 21 watts and the LED bulbs I'm going to be replacing it with
are 12 volts and about 3 to 5 watts maybe not even that, I'm ready now to install the LED bulb.
So take the LED bulb and where the parallel pins are you're
just sliding that down into the grooves here you've got a groove on either side
as soon as it hits that then push it down
then turn it clockwise to lock it into place about 40 degrees and that is now ready to fit
back inside the headlamp unit, there's a link above now about how to replace the pollen filter
on your Volkswagen T5 ideally that's a job you should be doing once a year. So you've got three
kind of empty spaces indentations within there so you're lining those black pieces up through
those indentations and then as soon as it goes in you're turning it anti-clockwise as if we're
facing the video but clockwise from your actual hand inside so just give that a turn to lock it in
Fabulous
That is now locked in and a few scrazed knuckles later
Really should have put my gloves on but with gloves on it makes your hand even bigger
Ouch.
So that bulb is now in place make sure you install the bulb on the other side as well
then remember to put the rubber cap back on this is just a dust cap,
stops any dust getting in there plus any moisture just push that on
and then we're ready to test out the LED daytime running bulbs this is what they
look like installed, there's obviously lots of various different types of LED's
just make sure you get the ones with the right pins, all right let's test them out
As soon as I switch the ignition on the daytime running bulbs will come
on even without the engine running
Let's just start the BEAST up, when you put the side lights on or the headlights the daytime
running bulbs go out these are the side lights these are the dipped headlights and main beams
I'm really pleased with those it's a nice bright white light but it's not two bright
obviously they're just daytime running light bulbs, there's a link above now about how to
reset the service light on your Volkswagen T5 Transporter that's really useful if you're doing
all your own servicing. If you've got daytime running bulbs installed and they never come on
then this could be something that you need to switch on, on the OBD2 computer
because on mine it went in for an MOT and all of a sudden my daytime running bulbs are working,
and it turns out that they'd switched them on using the OBD2 computer. I hope you found that
useful over here is a video on the Volkswagen T5 and T6 fuse box locations and how to check
the fuses and over on this side is a video on how to reset the service light on your Volkswagen T5,
thanks for visiting my channel everyone I really really appreciate it. 'Lurgs'.