Retrofitting dimmable interior lights in T6 Beach

Kayleigh

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Now I’m back in my T6 Beach after handing back the T6.1 Ocean, one of the things I really liked are the dimmable downstairs lights.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to retrofit them to a T6? If so, details of where to get the part numbers would be really helpful. I’m not interested in alternative solutions, just the VW ones.
 
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Curious if you ever found the answer to this, or tried it out for yourself? Am thinking this would be great if possible.
 
Curious if you ever found the answer to this, or tried it out for yourself? Am thinking this would be great if possible.
The only solution I have found so far is to use these shown in the pic. I have purchased one but not installed yet. Apparently, you can combine multiple lights together so that they operate from a single remote control. Will update once I’ve got them installed.

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So I have bought a set of these and fitted them a couple of days ago. The concept is not too bad, although I would have preferred to do it with button presses on the light rather than a separate remote and battery to monitor, but hey ho its the best we have right now. They are OK, 4 levels of brightness and the dimmest is not too bad. The two issues I have with them are that a) the remote doesnt work alot of the time. It was worse when initially fitted because the battery was also low but even with a fresh one, they are unpredictable and often you think they arent doing to work then suddenly they do. This is made worse by b) when set to 25% or 10% and sometimes even when set to 50%, the main button on the light does not work properly - either doesnt switch them off or doesnt switch them on. The main button seems to work reliably when they are at 100% but I was hoping that I could leave a couple of selected lights set to either 10% or 25% and switch them on/off with the button so that I could ignore the remote. They do have a memory but that doesnt help if the button doesnt work reliably at anything other than 100%... I will leave them fitted for now and see how I go. Fortunately there are so many lights in the van that a couple can be considered redundant and also they are super easy to remove if I get annoyed with them, restoring back to original factory functionality.

Just wondering if you ever fitted yours and if you have similar observations?
 
So I have bought a set of these and fitted them a couple of days ago. The concept is not too bad, although I would have preferred to do it with button presses on the light rather than a separate remote and battery to monitor, but hey ho its the best we have right now. They are OK, 4 levels of brightness and the dimmest is not too bad. The two issues I have with them are that a) the remote doesnt work alot of the time. It was worse when initially fitted because the battery was also low but even with a fresh one, they are unpredictable and often you think they arent doing to work then suddenly they do. This is made worse by b) when set to 25% or 10% and sometimes even when set to 50%, the main button on the light does not work properly - either doesnt switch them off or doesnt switch them on. The main button seems to work reliably when they are at 100% but I was hoping that I could leave a couple of selected lights set to either 10% or 25% and switch them on/off with the button so that I could ignore the remote. They do have a memory but that doesnt help if the button doesnt work reliably at anything other than 100%... I will leave them fitted for now and see how I go. Fortunately there are so many lights in the van that a couple can be considered redundant and also they are super easy to remove if I get annoyed with them, restoring back to original factory functionality.

Just wondering if you ever fitted yours and if you have similar observations?
I haven’t fitted it yet no. When I get around to it I’ll update the thread.
 

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