[wpbooth]

My 2006 V10 Altitude has adaptive lighting therefore the main lamp unit seems to contain (from the outside inwards) a side light plus slow speed cornering lamp, a bi xenon lamp (I think) which turns when you are at higher speeds then a similar looking fitting that is the turn indicator which is about same size as the headlamp. In fact at first I thought it had the quad setup with the inner halogen but this is not so. Anyway, my left side main beam has packed in and I am wondering if anyone knows the lamp type. As there is only one lamp, if it was bi xenon with a shutter surely it would not work on low beam which it does?

Local VW stealer wants over £450 to replace both front lamps and say bumper needs to come off to do the job. Handbook seems to say it can be done using tools that come with car.

Help anyone?

 

[TREGinginCO]

Those headlight cartridges slide out. There no reason in the world to take the front bumper off.

As for the bulb... I believe those headlights have the D1S Xenon bulb. There are many options for bulbs that are much less expensive than what the dealer is quoting you.

I believe there are step-by-step instructions listed on this site on how to remove the headlight cartridges and the bulbs. It's actually very simple.


Good Luck!!!!

 

[wpbooth]

Thanks for that quick response. I will search the forum now for some instruction then google the lamps and see what comes up.

 

[GQ//22]

Open your rear hatch and lift the panel covering the spare tire. on the back right where the jack and tools are is a long (8" or so) metal rod with a hex end on one side and an allen key tool through the other. This is the removal tool.

Pop the hood, on the inside front of the fenders near the middle of the headlight there will be a protruding hex head sticking up and a yellow sticker with an arrow pointing left and right. Affix the tool over that head and rotate the direction indicated on the sticker to remove the light. It will slide forward about 1", at that point it will stop. Inside near the base of the tool is a clip that you push in with your fingers, and once that is depressed the headlight will slide right out.

Took me 15 min to remove and reinstall the headlights after popping in new D1S bulbs, so the dealership is a joke.

 

[wpbooth]

Sounds like a fairly straight forward job for this weekend. The V10 manual mentions potentially fatal issue if you handle the HIDs wrong, is this due to the control gear, ballast or something? Any special precautions to take?

 

[GQ//22]

Precautions? Turn the car off and take the key out, dont lick the metal... Youll be ok

 

[wpbooth]

Cheers for all the help you guys, I will try and source some lamps now and get things sorted on Saturday. I will post my (hopefully successful) results when I'm done !

Oh and Michael...looking at your photo's there is no contest in the which is best Treg or Cayenne contest...the Treg is better from any view !

I am so glad I ditched the beemer X5 and got back in a Treg and the V10 motor makes all the more worthwhile, I smile every time I get in or out of it. Happy days!

 

[noobytoogy]

Somewhere you'll have haslogens for flashing your headlights. Xenons don't like a quick on and off.

If you haven't already found it, check out www.mytreg.com the UK Treg site.

You need to be careful removing the headlight unit. A lot of people have broken the carrier. Spray some WD40 around the day before you do the job.

I'll find the UK how to link with pix. It's worth reading the whole thing especially post #31!

Removing headlight unit + changing bulbs - myTreg forums - Page 2

 

[wpbooth]

No halogens in mine, they are bi xenon and they are used for headlamp flash which I think is odd. It is the nearside main beam that has gone so I am guessing it must be the shutter arrangement that deflects the beam angle to make dip in to main that is inoperative as the dip still works.

From what I have read the bulb is a H4 or H13 type but I wont know for sure till I get the Headlamp unit out.

 

[wpbooth]

Well the removal of the nearside headlamp went like dream. Gave a good squirt of WD 40 last night and it seemed to make everything free. Now, the back of my headlamp unit contains a port covered by a rubber bung to access the halogen H7 which is for the slow speed kerb lighting that comes on when you turn say into a street, same to access the turn indicator which on my treg is in the same place as the inner headlamp on most ttegs I have seen and a small access area for the 5 watt side lamp which on my unit is where most ttegs have indicator ie on the outermost edge of the headlamp unit. This must all be due to the adaptive lighting.

I cant access what seems to be the D1S HID lamp without first removing what appears to be a large ballast unit secured by torx screws so I will get some torx bits tomorrow.

I refitted the unit in about 5 mins and it went in easy.

As the hid lamp is lit on dip and I do not here any relay sound from the left unit when I go to main beam or to headlamp flash like a do from the right side, I am thinking it is not the bulb at all but the fault is lying with whatever electro mechanical device or shutter moves when low to high beam is activated or headlamp flash is used.

I am assuming that the D1S bulb will be accessible when I remove the ballast. Anyone done this before?? There does not appear to be any halogen associated with the high low beam arrangement from what I can see so far. Is that not a little odd as hid lamps do not like short on off do they.

 

[noobytoogy]

You are right on HIDs not liking on/off for flashing headlights for example which is why I questioned whether there are halogen bulbs there that do this.

For kerb lighting, we usually see fog lights coming on/off too.

 

[wpbooth]

Guys I finally got to the bottom of the problem today. I bought the torx driver and took out the four torx screws holding the panel containing the ballast at the back of the headlamp unit. Sure enough in there was the HID lamp as expected but that was not the problem as I suspected.

The culprit was one of the wires had come of the plug feeding the solenoid for the high low shutter. There are two wires as you can see from the photo's, one brown and one yellow. In my case the yellow had become disconnected from the plug marked 545 in the picture.

Reconnected, re-installed headlamp unit, tested and all is well now. Pheewww I am really glad I did not let the local VW stealer at it as I guess through ignorance I would have parted with around £450 or so for what turned out to be a 10 minute job.

I will be calling in to see the service manager to ask him how they get two hours labour and a bumper (fender) removal to deal with a headlight issue.

Once again thanks for the help on here, I could not have considered this repair without your much valued assistance. I hope my post and pictures help someone in the future.

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[noobytoogy]

Good post - words are some much better with supporting pix. Thanks.

 

[wpbooth]

Thanks noobytoogy, hopefully no more problems for a while. Am still going to try and find out why VW decided not to use any halogens for the flash function. Only a D1S bulb for low, high and flash in my headlamp units.

 

[gbrisac]

Exactly the same thing happened to me. Your pics helped me solve my problem. Thanks!!

 

[wpbooth]

Exactly the same thing happened to me. Your pics helped me solve my problem. Thanks!!

Glad to be of assistance. Not had any problems with mine since.

 

[dropbear]

Headlight removal 2011 model

Those headlight cartridges slide out. There no reason in the world to take the front bumper off.

As for the bulb... I believe those headlights have the D1S Xenon bulb. There are many options for bulbs that are much less expensive than what the dealer is quoting you.

I believe there are step-by-step instructions listed on this site on how to remove the headlight cartridges and the bulbs. It's actually very simple.


Good Luck!!!!

Hi, having trouble using the site. Want to ask if anybody knows how to remove the headlight unit from 2011 touareg??

 

[Spoke]

Headlight not sliding out

My 2004 Touareg has a driver side blinker fault. If I bump the headlight it works.
I need to check the bulb connections but the headlight assembly will not slide out at all after turning the removal tool. Not one bit of movement. There are locking and unlocking popping noises but it does not begin to slide out has anyone had this problem?

Spoke

 

[Spoke]

Headlight not sliding out

My 2004 Touareg has a driver side blinker fault. If I bump the headlight it works.
I need to check the bulb connections but the headlight assembly will not slide out at all after turning the removal tool. Not one bit of movement. There are locking and unlocking popping noises when turning the tool but it does not begin to slide out has anyone had this problem?

Spoke

 

[noobytoogy]

You know there is also a release tab you have to depress once the headlight starts to release after an inch or thereabouts?

Try helping the headlight move as you turn the "key".