Welcome to Karmann Ghia LED – LED upgrade kits for vintage VW
This is a tiny private project were I produce hand made LED tail light upgrade kits (I call them LED tail light modules) for vintage and classic VW air-cooled cars. I’m the proud owner of a Karmann Ghia 1966 in very good condition.
It all started with my wife telling me off one day after she was driving behind my KG 1966 on the way to the body shop. She struggled seeing the taillights. And was very clear about her support to my continued ownership of this little beauty if I didn’t find a solution for the dizzy lights.
I am trained as an electronic engineer from back in the days before Walkman and CD’s – where Hi-Fi systems were 19″ and the speakers were sized like washing machines. So it was not too difficult for me to make the electronic circuit design, get some PCB’s made and start assembling the first revisions of LED taillight modules.
I obviously did already tried the LED bulbs you can get in China, and I concluded like you have probably all done: They are not bright, they are suffering from same bad connections in the socket, and they need a shiny and new reflector in the bulb holder to be just doing an average result.
Therefore I was sure that the solution had to be perfectly shaped PCB-modules with powerful LED chips producing clear and high intensity light without being dependent on good ground connection in the socket or shiny reflectors in the bulb holder.
The project is spare time only, and not a big business… It’s driven by passion for our vintage VW cars and I hope that we can keep them running safely and maybe even preventing some few rear-endings or road accidents.
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