[HP18]

Can I get in on this group buy? If not, if someone has decided that they suddenly can't afford them or don't want them let me know I will buy them.

You can still purchase these through the link in the original post.

Anybody got 'em? Mine were shown to be shipped on the 10th, but the DHL tracking link still shows just an e-notice of pending transfer TO DHL for shipment, NOT that they are anywhere shipping in progress ...

These have been shipped out about 6 days ago, it takes about 14 days to get to us. The system updates slow as mentioned earlier, once it reaches the US it will then be updated with a USPS tracking number.

 

[HP18]

Has anyone's tracking status been updated?
Track here

 

[ExhaustNote]

Mine has not updated since they initially sent it after I paid. I double checked it against the one they emailed to me when they sent out the lights and it was the same. I just checked again and it isn't updated.

 

[Audistic]

I must mention again that the website doesn't tell you much. One time I ordered something from DP-DHL and the item got to my door and the tracking info was still sitting at 20%. It's very inaccurate.

 

[HP18]

I contacted BKS and they sent me an updated international tracking number that I was able to track through the site, might want to give them an email.

Since all our lights were sent out at the same time, this should be the current status of them:

 

[ExhaustNote]

I must mention again that the website doesn't tell you much. One time I ordered something from DP-DHL and the item got to my door and the tracking info was still sitting at 20%. It's very inaccurate.

Yeah I've had the same experience which is why I'm not worried. Whenever it comes, it comes. I've waited this long, what's a little longer? Haha

 

[ExhaustNote]

I contacted BKS and they sent me an updated international tracking number that I was able to track through the site, might want to give them an email.

10.11.10 11:32 Hours
DE

The instruction data for this shipment have been provided by the sender to DHL electronically
11.11.10 15:40 Hours
DE

The shipment has been posted by the sender at the retail outlet
11.11.10 20:00 Hours
Rüdersdorf, DE

The international shipment has been processed in the parcel center of origin
12.11.10 22:05 Hours
Saulheim, DE

The international shipment has been processed in the export parcel center
13.11.10 17:37 Hours
IPZ-Ffm, DE

The shipment is being transported to the destination country

Thanks, I emailed them earlier for an updated number so I'm sure they'll get back to me tomorrow. It's most likely going to have the same information as you just posted since they were all sent out at the same time. Thanks for the update though!

 

[ragazzi_07]

im dying here....seems like now that i have one on order i started to see way more a5/s5 with led tails.......driving me nuts :S

 

[HP18]

im dying here....seems like now that i have one on order i started to see way more a5/s5 with led tails.......driving me nuts :S

hopefully we get it before thanksgiving weekend!

 

[rnlabas]

yippie - whooo, whooo - Mine are here!!!

On they'll go Thanksgiving Day - hah !!!

 

[Audistic]

On they'll go Thanksgiving Day - hah !!!

Take my advice... don't think about it. It will get here eventually. The two week estimate people are told is an average. My packages in the past usually took 3-4 weeks, and both times I was ready to raise hell thinking they were lost and out of nowhere they showed up. It's better to not stress about it.

 

[rnlabas]

Take my advice... don't think about it. It will get here eventually. The two week estimate people are told is an average. My packages in the past usually took 3-4 weeks, and both times I was ready to raise hell thinking they were lost and out of nowhere they showed up. It's better to not stress about it.

I'm NOT stressed - guess you didn't read the title of my post - mine are HERE!!

 

[Audistic]

thought you were being sarcastic... so how are they?

 

[ragazzi_07]

GOT MINE TODAY

lets hope my guys don't have probs with install I CAN"T WAIT

 

[ragazzi_07]

FYI the tracking still shows 60% lol

 

[rnlabas]

As these start to roll in, I hope someone recieves at least some kind of instructions. I have NO INSTRUCTIONS or even a simple sketch. I am a fairly mechanically inclined guy, and I understand functionally how these are to be installed. But when I review the wiring modules, there are at least a few questions.
1) Where exactly should the main Kufatec module be placed in order to have mutual access to both left and right side light harnesses - or does it even need to ? Does one side or the other have a longer harness to reach the opposite side - is it left or right? It does NOT appear that this module should go in the middle, yet it also not obvious where it should go. Or does it plug into the main CAN plug for some time (how long or permanently) to provide the correct coding on the fly.
2) While each plug harness is clearly labeled and the two part would seem obvious where they plug into the respective lamp sections, there is a loose wire from one of each side that would appear to need to be routed and then connected to the other, and there is a vacant pin on the 'receiving' plug that perhaps this loose wire with pin could/should be inserted. But again, NO instructions as to how or where an optimal or even acceptable place to run this wire to. The lengths of free wire do NOT appear to be long enough to route from the body corner up to the trunk hinge and back to the trunk-mounted portion to connect to its plug there.

I don't mean to sound dumb or oblivious to the obvious - but, heck, at least a few paragraphs wouldn't have hurt either. If the main dongle is to more or less remain plugged into and hanging from under the dash, I would like to know. Can it be temporarily removed to VAGCOM or otherwise diagnose the car, and what VAGCOM code restrictions are made as a result of either its own coding or the periodic unplug and replug of it into the main CAN plug, if any?

just a bit curious before I jump in ...

 

[HP18]

^You should have received instructions. I have emailed BKS regarding this, I will keep you posted.

Here are instructions from Kufatec:
http://www.motor-talk.de/forum/aktion/Attachment.html?attachmentId=690545

 

[rnlabas]

Okay, I'll play the "It's almost intuitively obvious" role, after some investigative reconnoitering. It DOES appear that there is sufficient length to the loose wires to route from the body section lamp up the hinge and across the trunk to the trunk sections, where that loose wire should then be pushed into its plug where there is a vacant pin for it. That harness (the short one) has a three pin plug that should plug into the existing wire from the old lamps, and then with the new wire attached to the four pin plug, which then plugs into the new lamp.

The body section lamp has an existing five pin plug (where only four pins are wired) where the adaptor harness plugs into, and another new eight pin plug (where only seven pins are used) that plugs into the new lamp. This adaptor harness has an extra wire loose, that must be routed from the body lamp, up the trunk hinge and to the trunk lamp adaptor harness.

It then DOES appear that the Kufatec dongle merely plugs onto the main CAN plug under the dash. I suppose it must stay there to function, but wonder what fault codes may appear when it is removed to plug in a VAGCOM for diagnostics or coding. Since it won't be there to defend itself when the VAGCOM is plugged in, I imagine there will be faults noticed then.

Without any instructions to proceed, I will try this tomorrow and see what happens. If anyone meanwhile receives any instructions, or otherwise knows better though osmosis or any other gnostic means, please PM me for my enlightenment...

 

[HP18]

Did you read the instructions in post 77?

 

[ExhaustNote]

Did you receive yours as well 1SickS5? I ask because they mistakenly shipped to my work instead of home so i need ot see if I need to make the trek out to the office today to pick them up. Thanks!