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Post by shadrack » Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:00 pm

anyone got some of the led bright white number plate bulbs that dont put the bulb error up on the obd?? there are many sets on ebay but just wondered if someone had them error free and where they got them thanks
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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by Dubs » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:09 am

In my first post HERE is where I got all mine from, no errors either.

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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by Raj » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:37 am

I've got LED bulbs through out the whole of the X. No errors and got mine from a mate who owns CPD.
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Post by JimmySpeed » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:21 pm

No errors on mine from eBay

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Post by AW8 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:49 pm

Appreciate good intentions likley but telling members bulbs sourced from friends, contacts or ebay not much help to those after a decent source/supplier in abscence of further info &/or links.
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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by Raj » Mon Oct 24, 2011 10:09 pm

[quote=""AW8""]Apprecite good intentions likley but telling members bulbs sourced from friends, contacts or ebay not much help to those after a decent source/supplier in abscence of further info &/or links.[/quote]

As soon as I posted I sent a text to my mate. He replied saying there has been a bereavement in the family but will get an up to date price for me and then I was going to post up.
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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by AW8 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:28 am

Sorry to learn of that - thanks for clarifying matters.
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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by Raj » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:12 am

[quote=""AW8""]Sorry to learn of that - thanks for clarifying matters.[/quote]

No problemo. I understand where you're coming from though as without further info the original posts are a little redundant.
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Post by JimmySpeed » Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:00 am

[quote=""AW8""]Appreciate good intentions likley but telling members bulbs sourced from friends, contacts or ebay not much help to those after a decent source/supplier in abscence of further info &/or links.[/quote]

Very fair comment, I don't even recall the sellers name but I will try and find them again and post a link to them or similar.

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Post by ianmaney » Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:43 pm

This post made me titter to be fair, I remember we went through this in a previous post and try as I did, nobody wanted to reveal their supplier for LED bulbs, is it the new contraband I wonder, and so the quest continues! :o)
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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by JimmySpeed » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:36 pm

These are the ones I bought - no problems in 3 months now

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CANBUS-ERROR- ... 818wt_1139

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Post by AW8 » Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:14 am

Thanks for sharing info...............appreciated :)

Folk should be aware that these come in a variety of sizes/specs ......N.B. the kindly provided link is for 38mm "error free" festoon bulbs.

My LED advice..... Don't always buy cheapest out there. I have just binned some LED bulbs I had fitted on the front markers on the Z3 as they paretly died within a few months.
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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by JimmySpeed » Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:19 am

[quote=""AW8""]Thanks for sharing info...............appreciated :)

Folk should be aware that these come in a variety of sizes/specs ......N.B. the kindly provided link is for 38mm "error free" festoon bulbs.

My LED advice..... Don't always buy cheapest out there. I have just binned some LED bulbs I had fitted on the front markers on the Z3 as they paretly died within a few months.[/quote]

Another good point, I bought these number plate bulbs from one seller, but at the same time I had bought a set of sidelight bulbs from a different seller. A week later, I ordered another set of sidelight bulbs from that same guy for my mirror lights - same price, same ebay auction, just ordered 1 week apart. The first set were totally different to the second set - the second set kept going on and off so advised the seller and he replaced them with another set identical to the first pair and all was well - so quality varies even when dealing with the same seller at the same price!

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Re: number plate light bulbs

Post by Sanj » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:42 pm

Bought some a few days back and they've been working without issue. These are the ones I got:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290624143925? ... 1497.l2649
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