bulb type

[nfegan]

Hi all,
I'm off on hol's to France on Friday and I'm putting a spare bulbs kit together, can anyone tell me what the bulb types are, particulary the head light (hi-beam & dip) to save me the time of going out and taking them out to check.

Also, I dont really want to bring my full tool kit with me, can anyone advise what the most useful/necessary/"versitile" tools to bring would be to make a useful "skeleton" toolkit
Thanks in advance.
Nigel.

03 passat TDI se, red DI

*proof reading of that makes me feel like a lazy person

[MalcQV]

Bulbs are single element, H7 (http://www.suped.ie/images/lighting/h7.gif) See http://home.comcast.net/~slashpub/headlights/ReplacingHeadlightBulbs.pdf on how to fit them :p
IMHO
Toolkit, me well a European breakdown service ;)

Also a set of screwdrivers, spanners perhaps some Molegrips & pliers. Any more call the breakdown service :D

Have good one too ;)

[nfegan]

Nice one, thanks for that.

[snapdragon]

One point to note, is that the rear dual filament bulbs are not the usual type you can get in Wilkos. The pins are offset (or was it not offset?) anyway, the opposite of what they normally are.

[nfegan]

I think the norm would be to have the pins offset so as not to put bulb in wrong and have the 21Watt filament come on for driving lights and the 5 Watt filament come on for brake lights

[MalcQV]

Snapdragon - good point.

What he means by offset is not just the distance up the side of the bulb from the end but the radial offset. The pins are not 180 degrees opposite one another but something like 160/200 degrees.

I had to go to VW to get mine.

[snapdragon]

Yes, I know there was something funny, and I've got a drawer full of bulbs because of it! :zx11: I would look but it's raining again!:(