Replacing headlight bulbs on a Volkswagen Polo sedan

Recently, many motorists who are actively involved in equipping their “iron horse” have become more often interested in elements of automotive lighting technology. They create blogs on the Internet, shoot videos, and write informational articles on replacing electrical equipment. This excitement is associated not only with the desire to make your car safer on the road, but also with modern fashion trends.

Today, LED lighting is popular when it comes to installing lighting fixtures. LEDs are small semiconductor elements that convert current into light. They are placed inside the low beam headlights, on the taillights and even in the turn signals on the side mirrors.

The German manufacturer from Wolfsburg did not deprive its new invention, the Volkswagen Polo sedan, of LED “decorations”. Beautiful light bulbs are mounted both in the head optics and in the side lights.

In general, all automobile lamps are divided into two categories:

• Halogen samples inserted into the headlights are the main source of light illuminating the road surface.
• The remaining sources, which include parking and side lamps, brake lights, reversing lights, turn signals and interior lighting, play a secondary role.

Manufacturers are a dime a dozen. Just go to any car store and find a huge assortment of products of various brands and sizes. In some cities, they even open entire retail outlets specializing in the sale of lighting equipment for cars.

The most famous brands include Osram, Bosch and Phillips. These companies create truly high-quality designs that are in great demand around the world.

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Remove the headlight bulb from the headlight housing.

Attention! The headlight lamp is halogen. You should not touch its glass bulb with your fingers, as traces from them will lead to darkening of the lamp when heated. You can remove dirt from the flask with a clean rag soaked in alcohol.

We install the new H4 lamp in the reverse order.

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Replacing Volkswagen Polo lamps: restyling

When handling lighting fixtures on car models manufactured after 2015, you will have to take into account the following important points:

• A complete update of the lamps is only possible if the headlight assembly has to be removed from the car.
• The dismantling procedure itself is quite simple and will take no more than half an hour of personal time from any car enthusiast.

H7 lamp

(55W);

Low and high beam, dimensions, turn signals

Independent replacement of the low beam lamp on the restyled version is carried out in the following order:

1. Using a TORX T30 wrench, unscrew the two screws holding the headlight. They are clearly visible in the photo below.

2. Remove the power supply; to do this, you will have to press the special latch and forcefully release it.
3. At the next stage of disassembly comes the most crucial moment. It involves carefully removing the entire headlight from the housing niche.

In addition to the screws, the headlight is held in place by two latches.

1. Remove the protective cover under which the faulty lamp is located. In order to get it out of the socket, you will need to turn its base counterclockwise.

2. At the final stage of work, a previously prepared new H7 lamp is taken and installed in place of the burnt product. The procedure for assembling the headlight and returning it to its original place is carried out in reverse order.
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Remove the lamp from the socket.

We install the new W5W side light lamp in the reverse order.

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Replacing lamps in a Volkswagen Polo sedan headlight

Types of car lamps

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Types of lamps used in Volkswagen Polo sedan

The VW Polo sedan uses original headlights VAG 6RU941015 (glory) and VAG 6RU941016 (right). The kit includes a housing, glass surface and incandescent lamps. Sometimes halogen headlights of type 6R1941007F/6R1941008F or 6C1941005A/6C1941006A can be installed.

For the Polo sedan model, H4 standard halogen bulbs are used, which have two filaments. Lighting devices are equipped with various light bulbs, which differ in parameters, shapes, and dimensions. The highest indicator for low beam luminous flux is 820 lumens. Popular brands that produce light sources for this car are Phillips, Valeo LYNX, Narva.

The remaining elements of lighting equipment (alarms, instrument lighting and control units) are illuminated by LEDs, which have a long service life and can be replaced as part of the unit.

Side light circuit

It's very easy to replace the side light bulb yourself.

In order to save fuel and reduce the load on the generator, daytime running lights are now often included in this circuit, which makes it quite complicated.

The standard wiring option is quite simple and consists of the following elements:

• circuit breakers;
• front and rear position lamps;
• central or key switch;
• Let's take a closer look at the first two elements.

Circuit breakers

Sometimes blown fuses are the reason why the side lights do not light up on one side or another.

There are usually two fuses in the circuit, for the left and right sides separately. Since the light bulbs consume little power (4-5 W each), the fuse rating is small, only 5-7.5 A.

Where are the side light fuses located?

In the same place as the others, in a single block. On most modern cars, this block is located under the instrument panel next to the steering column, or, more often, on the lower left, under a plastic trim.

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In the latter case, it is enough to remove the cover protecting the unit, mounted on latches. On the back of the cover, as a rule, there is a sticker with information about which circuit this or that fuse protects, indicating its rating.

The biggest inconvenience in this case may be insufficient knowledge of the English language - it is in this language that inscriptions are usually made, even on Korean and Japanese cars.

Lamps

Externally, the headlight bulb is marked W5W, but today LED sidelight bulbs are increasingly used.

Their advantage over incandescent lamps is their greater durability, and the price of both largely depends on the manufacturer. The most famous products are Philips, Osram, Tesla.

Watch the video about LED bulbs for side lights:

Moreover, as the “Behind the Wheel” test showed, expensive products do not always justify their price.

Also, quite often, the front dimensions are equipped with light bulbs with a metal base, but this, one might say, is a thing of the past.

For rear position lights, the most common lamp is with two spirals - 21 and 5 (or 4) W.

The 21 W coil lights up when you press the brake, i.e. In this case, the light bulb serves as a brake light, while the lower power spiral works as a side light.

Just as with any other lamps, purchasing a more expensive product does not guarantee any exceptional durability.

DRL option using LED strips

Some car owners resort to installing daytime running lights without purchasing lampshades with DRLs. LED strips are used for these purposes. The cost is much lower, and the options for tuning are expanding. One way is given below.

• Remove decorative plugs.

• Cut holes for the LED strip.

• Prepare the LED strip by cutting it into pieces of the required length.

• Insert the LED strip into its seats.

• Make electrical wiring.

• Fill everything with epoxy resin.

• Electrically connect both homemade DRL headlights.
• Install daytime running lights on the car.
• Check performance.

Sources used:

• https://polovod.com/service/9-zamena-lamp.html
• https://motyk.ru/info/zamena-lampy-hodovyh-ognej-folksvagen-polo-sedan/
• https://zapchasti.expert/volkswagen/polo/dxo-volkswagen-polo.html

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Hello! Didn't quite like the low beam of the headlights, weak or something!? At night and in rainy weather, they illuminate the road very poorly. Which H4 lamps and which manufacturer can you recommend? Thank you!

Vitaly (Chandrakanta) in the rain and my light is bad, but because the headlights from those in front of us are filled with mud. In dry weather everything is fine

Yana (Udaya) Vladimir Grekov, maybe the lighting angle is not adjusted? !

Dmitry (Igme) replace standard light bulbs with LED ones

Vera (Aglaya) And in the dark and in the rain I also turn on the fog lights and drive calmly!

Alexey (Ferreolus) What kind of diodes are they? ..LED? .)))) There are no low and high beams on LEDs!! ))) There are only side lights and license plate lighting)))) Heh..

Mikhail (Alam) Alexey, there are such diode lamps (for example, someone installed them in PTF), but they won’t shine! They’re just for beauty or used as DRLs.

Alexey (Ferreolus) Mikhail, I agree, but there are no full-fledged diode head optics yet (((..But the dimensions look cool)))

Mikhail (Alam) Alexey, yes, the dimensions are perfect, I have them, I like them)

Alexey (Ferreolus) I’m still waiting, but tomorrow I’ll go buy..))) I wanted black, but I have to wait three months, I’ll go and get a silver metallic one from stock... It seems like I’ve already decided...

Alexey (Ferreolus) and then you can come up with dimensions)))

Alexey (Ferreolus) Mikhail, sorry!!! The answer is above)))

Alexey (Ferreolus) what size are the light bulbs?

Vladimir (Hemani) Well, I don’t know how it is for anyone, but I’m quite happy with the light, the adjustment in the third mode is a little weak, but if you turn it up by one, then everything is clearly visible.

Denis (Toms) today supplied H4, PHILIPS with xenon effect, the set is sold of 4 lamps: 2 main lamps + 2 side lamps. The color became blue-white-yellow!!! ))))) Looks impressive.....issue price 950 rub.

Denis (Toms) I’m thinking where I could attach a couple of diodes.....I can’t get into the headlight unit....and I don’t know where to power it from?? !!

Rafael (Shashi) Guys, we already have LED head lighting, but it costs about 5 thousand rubles for our car, “H4”, but we don’t know what quality it is and whose production it is! In general, you can see this miracle on Kia Quoris and Porsche Cayene!!!

I didn’t bother too much, I recently installed light bulbs, believe it or not, made in Russia, for only 300 rubles. I bought them, although they are very yellow, they shine so well, I was shocked!!! I don’t remember the name anymore, but it ended with “LUCH”.

Source: https://koloritno.info/avto-voprosy-i-otvety/kak-pomenyat-zadnyuyu-gabaritnuyu-lampochku-na-Polo-sedan.php

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Thanks for the instructions, today it burned out on the passenger side, mileage is 10,000, I will change it.

Please). I still have the stock one on the passenger side. Mileage 45,000 km.

Same story, only changed a year later...

You won't regret it, just change the polarity.

These holes are not for removing the trim, but for adjusting the PTF, if there are any, the hook is needed to remove the caps that are placed on the wheel bolts!

Those. Is it absolutely not recommended to remove the pads this way?

They're not expensive, it's a thing