BLAQ ICE

OUT DATED!!!!

Audi_s5

Conversion is $1799 from Ben @ BBC or about 2k if you order parts and have dealer install.

BCM2 module, lights, and specific wiring, and coding are required.

As you see on ECS tunings website ETA is MARCH 2010.. So I highly doubt this mod is outdated.. as mentioned in the last post..

Audi_s5

I do have a new A8 on order so I guess my S5 will be outdated.

fenwayfan

Must be a typo but I find it funny:
"Complete kit to install LED taillights on your B8 A6/S6"

That's a good price, I would need to call Ben @ BBC to see how much he would charge for the VAG-COM programming.

Audi_s5

Can not be completed w/ VAG COM

Requires VAS 505x scan tool, VAS 1978 wiring repair kit.

fenwayfan

So what you're saying is the total cost would still be around $1800 when you factor in the VAG COM, VAS 505x scan tool, VAS 1978 wiring repair kit and Ben's time?

I actually met Ben at Audi in Mission Viejo. He's an Audi technician there.

Eric

Audi_s5

BBC Technik is the only company to date that is offering a full US OEM LED tail light solution for 08&09 A5/S5 that works to OEM specs with no warnings, utilizing all OEM parts. We are currently working with retailers of OEM LEDs to repair the sets that they have already sold.

FULL KIT INSTALLED: includes tail lights, OEM wires, a factory control unit (with special BBC Technik Programming), and some other small OEM parts. This kit is $1799 installed if you live in SoCal or can come down.

PARTIAL KIT INSTALLED: If you have LEDs from a retailer, and finally want to get them to work properly, we will finalize the installation for $899 (again, if you are local).

If you are out of the area, we have a new solution for you, but it WILL require your local dealer participation.

FULL KIT: parts only is $1499

PARTIAL KIT: parts only is $699

We will include full support to your local dealer.

We offer 1 year parts warranty, and a lifetime workmanship warranty on everything we personally install. We specialize in OEM integrations for Audi vehicles and we don't sell ANYTHING we cannot install to OEM specs.

For more info, you can email us at ben@bbctechnik.com, and on the web at www.bbctechnik.com

Above is right from BBC Technik

Inclined

+ 2 ( thousand bucks )

in another year or two , the vendors will rake in the same bucks from the same guys for the updated " neon-tube " style LED rear lights if they come this generation.


So there will be some B8 owners who spend $2-3 K to impress at most 2-3 ricers at stop lights .

SFV A4

The majority of modern cars with LED lights use the individual bulbs. The tube thing you mention is very exclusive and will take many years, if not a decade to spread and catch on. The OP's lights will look fresh for a long time. The price on the other hand... wow.

Inclined

The indiv bulb LED look is not fresh- many Asian makes have used them for rear lights for years , in addition to all the aftermkt ricers with their crude round circle of lights inside shapely OEM housings. The Germans were late to the game ( excluding front LEDs)

Everytime I follow an '09 Audi A8 , with it's rectangle of rear indiv glaring LEDs , it just makes me more more impressed with the wavy " lightbar " look of the new BMW 7, coming 5 series and updated 3 series, as well as the incorporation of even nicer ,even higher tech use of that theme in the 2011 A8 and new A1 and I'm sure every Audi that will be introduced from now on , like the A6.

It's the esthetic difference between brush strokes and connect - the - dots artwork.