LED Tail Light Question, Please Help !

**Lewis-Oddie** · 11-02-2014,10:03 AM

Morning All,

I am wanting to purchase a set of all LED tail lights for my 2007 A6 Le Mans. My car currently has halogen tail lights and is suffering badly from water ingress so I thought sod it, perfect opportunity to upgrade to LED ones. I found a set that I really like and asked the seller to confirm whether they would definitely fit and he asked me to go away and confirm how many pins were in the connector for my rear lights. I checked last night and my car has 7 pins in the light connectors. The seller said that his lights only had 6 pins and they wouldn't work properly.

Does anybody know the difference between the 6 and 7 pin connectors ? I read on a US forum where a chap had bought these particular LED lights but then a few weeks down the line realised that his parking lights no longer worked. Could this be caused by the 7th pin not being connected ?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

**Guest 2** · 11-02-2014,10:06 AM

Saloon?

When fitting the OEM clusters you need vcds to enable the Highline option. On the saloon with Highline you sacrifice a reverse light so as per legal requirements, reverse lights on the LHS cluster and the fog on the RHS.

Mine were upgraded from normal to Highline and required no connector modifications.

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**Guest 2** · 11-02-2014,10:07 AM

Also you can't buy clusters from LHD cars as there is a physical modification to the innards of the cluster to shift the beam for fog and reverse.

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**Lewis-Oddie** · 11-02-2014,10:13 AM

Thanks for your reply Chris. The lights I am looking at fitting are not OEM, they are aftermarket ones. The seller said that if my car has halogen lights as standard (which it does) then no coding would be needed. Yes it is a saloon.

**Guest 2** · 11-02-2014,10:17 AM

If aftermarket they should be fine and you can ignore everything above as I'm sure aftermarket a have 2x reverse and 2x fog.

Are they off eBay? You could always be rude and try them within his return period.

**Lewis-Oddie** · 11-02-2014,10:26 AM

Yeah they are off eBay. I am just concerned that they won't work full stop. Do you think they will still work ok despite one pin not working ?

**Lewis-Oddie** · 11-02-2014,11:27 AM

I wonder if anybody has a diagram for the pins on my car ?

**Guest 2** · 12-02-2014,09:52 PM

Originally Posted by Lewis-Oddie

Yeah they are off eBay. I am just concerned that they won't work full stop. Do you think they will still work ok despite one pin not working ?

Do you have a link?

As I said above, you could use the Distance Selling Regs to "try" them out, obviously eBay isn't like this but some things just have to be done

**Lewis-Oddie** · 12-02-2014,09:53 PM

Yeah, here is the link

Audi A6 LED TAIL LIGHTS (C6 /2004-2008) âœ° NEW IN BOX + WARRANTY !! âœ° 4F MODEL | eBay

My only concern with that is that I would have to pay return postage and it is likely to be astronomical due to being in the Netherlands.