Audi Q5 - Swapping 2013 headlights to a 2009-2012 - almost there !

[agautohaus]

So I got the AFS cables from Kufatec... And I'm not sure what to do with them. The have exposed cables branching off of them. Anyone have any knowledge of the swap for Q5's with AFS? I bought AFS headlights, and I feel that I shouldn't of, after getting more info from the description from KUFATEC's website.

Yikes, yeah not sure what those are for. PM Spijun, he knows all about this stuff.

[VRvento]

FYI: my US model year 2012 has the right side (passenger) holes in the engine bay for the FL support bracket, saved some headache there

[VRvento]

got my 2012 facelifted w/ ecodes a couple days ago, also figured with the bumper off to add a RS mesh grille and paint the crash beam black.
Thanks to this thread and thanks to blasterman for the harness extension!

[Elberoth]

Looking great !

[agautohaus]

nicely done!!

[PPCorrado]

Hi Blasterman. Do you still making the Q5 facelift taillights harness (Mine is a 2012 Q5)? If yes, please PM me how much!

[rockingtherace]

Hi Guys,

For coding the retro fit. Please buy obd eleven, it is one click. Rest of the stuff is in this blog. finiished my today and now waiting my device, it is in shipping.....

1) You need Kuftec non-afs adapter for this retro fit. no need for AFS ones.

let me know if you need any help.

[white_q5]

Hi Blasterman. Do you still making the Q5 facelift taillights harness (Mine is a 2012 Q5)? If yes, please PM me how much!

just ordered mine. speedy response. cant wait to get them!

[gorgoo]

Hello. I did the same thing to my 2011 q5...but i tried to code my headlights and the mechanic told me i need a new control module.. Can you please tell me exacly how you made them work....what coding you did ....
Thanks very much

[gorgoo]

Can anyone point me to the right topic please...can find anything about how to code the ecu to work proprely with this headlights. Thanks very much in advance.

[VRvento]

This link helped with vagcom to fine tune the drls, but the main thing is to turn the prefacelift 7% duty cycle to the post facelift 28% duty cycle to avoid any errors.
Also make sure that when headlights are on the drls are set to 100% duty cycle
http://www.audiworld.com/forums/q5-s...14-q5-2855281/

[gorgoo]

Tx for info.. I `ll try to do that. Cheers

[rockingtherace]

Hi,

I did my coding with OBD eleven. It is really nice tool and they have one click retrofit app for q5.


https://obdeleven.com/

If you dont about coding then this is your best bet.

let me know if you need more help.

[Crazybuba]

Hi everyone, hope to find you doing well. I have just purchased an Audi Q5 2010. I wanted to do the headlight conversion however, I am unsure here to get the wire harness. Does anyone know where I can purchase the wiring I need for the conversion, and apart from that, I only need a bracket and some coding done correct?
Thank you!

[djsnowman777]

Hi everyone, hope to find you doing well. I have just purchased an Audi Q5 2010. I wanted to do the headlight conversion however, I am unsure here to get the wire harness. Does anyone know where I can purchase the wiring I need for the conversion, and apart from that, I only need a bracket and some coding done correct?
Thank you!

go to kufatec to get the wire harness. also follow up to the beginning of the thread. everything is listed for the conversion. i did the conversion for my 2011 Q5


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[mannersQ5]

Hi All,

Bumping this thread, i now own a 2009 halogen lights. the lights themselves is gone as the light distorted and spreading everywhere. so looks like im in the hunt, it make it worst if that im from australia (RHD) so hopefully be sourcing from ebay (US) seems to have plenty of used facelift lights.

the question is that would the support bracket is compatible international?

any tips from ppl upgrading from halogen to give their tips>?

[agautohaus]

Hi All,

Bumping this thread, i now own a 2009 halogen lights. the lights themselves is gone as the light distorted and spreading everywhere. so looks like im in the hunt, it make it worst if that im from australia (RHD) so hopefully be sourcing from ebay (US) seems to have plenty of used facelift lights.

the question is that would the support bracket is compatible international?

any tips from ppl upgrading from halogen to give their tips>?

Support bracket should be the same but if you source used lights from the USA they will all be LHD. Best shot is to get them from the U.K. Or Japan I think.

[base14]

Completed front and rear conversion thanks to this thread, so thanks OP for putting this together!

Some thoughts: The pre-FL headlight LEDs are dimmed to 9% with low beams on, and need VAGCOM modification to increase the brightness to FL levels (28%) otherwise they won't turn on AFAIK. Now looking at my converted FL tails, it seems like the DRL (which I turned on) are rather dim. I haven't been able to compare side by side with an actual 2013+ Q5, but do you guys think a similar lower LED output for the pre-LED tails carries over to the FL tails?

I used the Carista app to modify my settings, so adjusting the tail light brightness isn't an option for the app. Maybe some of the VCDS folks can chime in on what theirs are set at...

[base14]

Just to follow up on this, they indeed ARE less bright than the actual Facelift cars. Looked at them side by side next to a 2014 Q5 and the retrofits LED ring were not as bright. I just need to find someone with VCDS in the Portland area to see if I can configure these to be true OEM brightness.


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[sjmitchell]

This is a really old thread but does anyone know if the ballasts and bulbs from the 2009 headlight assembly are transferable to the 2013 housing? The generic ballasts i'm finding on ebay appear to work for both so one would assume...just wondering if anyone out there knows for sure? Much cheaper to find the FL headlights without...

[base14]

Ballasts and head light bulbs are the same between pre-FL and FL. I believe there are small variations in the turn signal bulbs, but that’s minor details. A word of caution though, our ballasts seem to fade in light output over time. I used a newer ballast from my preFL lights, replaced by the original owner before I purchased the car, to put into my FL lights and the light output was noticeably brighter and bluer. My FL set only came with one ballast but it swapped right over from my old preFL set.


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[Elberoth]

Ballasts and head light bulbs are the same between pre-FL and FL. I believe there are small variations in the turn signal bulbs, but that’s minor details. A word of caution though, our ballasts seem to fade in light output over time. I used a newer ballast from my preFL lights, replaced by the original owner before I purchased the car, to put into my FL lights and the light output was noticeably brighter and bluer. My FL set only came with one ballast but it swapped right over from my old preFL set.


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Maybe that was the HID bulb which was degrading over time, not the ballast ?

[base14]

Maybe that was the HID bulb which was degrading over time, not the ballast ?

That was my thought too, but I had bought 2 new Osram CBI HID bulbs and replaced them a couple months before swapping the headlight housing. The side with the newer ballast was still about 20% brighter and the cutoff line was slightly blue as opposed to the white/yellow cutoff from the older ballast.

[sjmitchell]

Ballasts and head light bulbs are the same between pre-FL and FL. I believe there are small variations in the turn signal bulbs, but that’s minor details. A word of caution though, our ballasts seem to fade in light output over time. I used a newer ballast from my preFL lights, replaced by the original owner before I purchased the car, to put into my FL lights and the light output was noticeably brighter and bluer. My FL set only came with one ballast but it swapped right over from my old preFL set.


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Thanks for that. Does that apply only to the xenon ballast? What about the LED DRL control module (i.e. 8R0941475B)? The OEM Valeo lights I'm looking at don't appear to have it. Would that be something else I would have to source as it doesn't appear to be on the preFL or at least looks quite different (hard to tell as I have not ripped anything apart yet)?

[base14]

The led drls are separate ballasts, usually on the inside of the unit. Mine came with my headlights fortunately. You’re gonna have to source those and I’m not sure if they’re the same preFL and FL.


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[Audi Q5]

Hello Pls HELP ME !!!!!!

I have Audi Q5 11.2008 with bixenon adaptiv headlight this is my problem:

01042 , 02234 , 01539 vcds code . The AFS modul (7L6 941 329A) is new .What can i do

[PhillipAtwood]

Hello Elberoth, I’ve been following your posts and thank you so much for the vivid detail!
I have a 2011 Q5 w halogen stock lights. I have the FL lights but have struggled to find an example of a halogen to factory xenon FL conversion. Do you have any input for me? Thanks in advance!!

[Elberoth]

Hello Elberoth, I’ve been following your posts and thank you so much for the vivid detail!
I have a 2011 Q5 w halogen stock lights. I have the FL lights but have struggled to find an example of a halogen to factory xenon FL conversion. Do you have any input for me? Thanks in advance!!

It seems you want to do two conversions in one big step:

- halogen to xenon
- pre-FL xenon to post-FL xenon

I have no idea if that has been done before. There is a special cable set from Kufatec for halogen to xenon conversion:

https://www.kufatec.de/shop/en/audi/...di-q5?info=929

It should work with FL xenons as well.

[PhillipAtwood]

Exactly...I’m hoping that it works. I ordered the Kufatec harness and it should arrive in a day or so. I was also trying to see if someone with an A4 with halogen pre-facelift did a factory xenon post facelift swap. Do you think I will run into any trouble?

[Elberoth]

No idea ... you may be the first one going that route. Please keep us posted.

[tck721]

Dear all,

I am headache on upgrade to Q5 facelift headlight....

[THE DAILY RUNNING LIGHT is failure to ON in all condition]

I have bought 8R0941006D (Right headlamp) from UK and 8R0941006A (Left headlamp) from Japan.

I have bought DRL module (Try both 4G0907697D and 4G0907397R) and LED bulb module (8R0941475, change to other set already)

I got the adapter cable from CHINA, have bought from 3 different dealers (From China too)............. All fail !!

TRY ODIS and VCSD to decode, DRL FAIL to on too !!


Do all of you think it is still adapter cable problem? Or any possible reason?

[Gilly44]

I will admit the taillights do look a lot better! But the older headlights to me are more unique.

[johnyy]

hey can you please let me know where you got you're grill ? thank you
Btw beautiful car !

[tck721]

Dear all,

Do anyone has 14PIN out of the adapter cable?

My car is Audi Q5, UK version

Thanks

[still in school]

Can someone help? I'm going from 2011 Halogen -> Facelift w/ LED's.

I was hoping on using OBDeleven to do a simple one click coding but OBDeleven says my vehicle is not supported (I'm guessing due to the halogen)
What changes do I need to make in OBDevleven advanced mode?

This is the harness I will be using

[pjekar]

Hi,

So i got Q5 2011 3.2 - can someone point me to where can I get a 2013 rears and anything else required to do a swap?

[Elberoth]

Dear all,

Do anyone has 14PIN out of the adapter cable?

My car is Audi Q5, UK version

Thanks

Try Kufatec.

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Hi,

So i got Q5 2011 3.2 - can someone point me to where can I get a 2013 rears and anything else required to do a swap?

ebay or a dealer.

[Elberoth]

Can someone help? I'm going from 2011 Halogen -> Facelift w/ LED's.

I was hoping on using OBDeleven to do a simple one click coding but OBDeleven says my vehicle is not supported (I'm guessing due to the halogen)
What changes do I need to make in OBDevleven advanced mode?

This is the harness I will be using

Make sure those extensions have rubber gromets (seals) around the cables entering the socket. I do not see them on this picture. Without the seals, you will get a short in wet conditions.

[pjekar]

I understand that ebay is where I can find it etc. I was hoping for maybe a link to items, because I simply don’t even know if my car has halogen or led (original not changed from the date of purchase). I know I am asking a lot but can someone give me a list of parts required, with links preferrably?

[Elberoth]

I understand that ebay is where I can find it etc. I was hoping for maybe a link to items, because I simply don’t even know if my car has halogen or led (original not changed from the date of purchase). I know I am asking a lot but can someone give me a list of parts required, with links preferrably?

Post a pic of both front and back of your car.