Headlight bulbs!

[waynne]

Choices choices, which should I go for? This is the second time this bulb has blown. I can get halogen, Xenon, 40% brighter, 80% brighter and bulbs with a hint of blue, or extra white. This is sounding more like a washing powder commercial now.

I have rules out the non street legal high wattage bulbs but for the others we are looking at £20-£40 for a pair of bulbs! What have you used or do you recommend? Am I right in thinking that the brighter bulbs cost more and have a lower life expectancy?

[pgarner]

last time i changed the bulbs i used the 50% brighter xenon bulbs from halfords as they were on a bogof offer at £10.99 that was for road legal 60/55w but its funny as thats where i ended up gettin the 130W bulbs for all my driving lights and they were 7.99 each

still fancy hid myself but dont think they were avalible on the bora and too much legal stuff to go with the conversion kits


think you should be right the brighter the bulb they hotter the element should be and therefore burn away quicker however all road legal headlight bulbs have to be a max of 60w

[HDi fun]

Osram's Nightbreakers are meant to be +90%

I have yet to try them. Previously have used Silverstar +50% lamps (H7 for each beam, so four lamps at the front) and they're very good. Didn't bother with the main beams as they're quite good as they are. Likewise the fogs, no point as they're rarly used.

Currently using Halfords Super Brilliance at £22.99 each but BOGOF means that for the pair. THey're very good indeed but the beam pattern is questionable. I had to manually realign both beams to get clean distribution and cutoff.

[pgarner]

Osram's Nightbreakers are meant to be +90%

where abouts stock these as looking to uprate the boras lights to a much brighter beam problem is living in the country we use full beam most of the time and even hid bulbs in the H4 type mean hid normal beam and halogen high beam

[waynne]

Just get some rally style spots and run them along the bonnet.

[pgarner]

yeah had them on the civic but really wanted to leave the bora as standard

did look into getting the lower fog lights and wiring them into the full beam but it advises not to fit them to turbo applications due to the interooler
thought obout getting some ducting to take from the center cutout androuting it to the 'cooler

[StevieDB9]

i just finished changing my lightbulbs in the car

AND I TELL YOU WHEN THE GERMANS PUT A CAR TOGETHER THEY DONT INTEND FOR IT TO BE TAKEN APART AGAIN

two hours forty five minutes, 2 cans of coke zero, three cups of tea (one of them being earl grey), three slice of roasted cheese, four slices of toast with marmalade and severel swear words later and the job was done.

changed the main beam and sidelights to philips blue vision.
havent had a chance to check them out in the dark yet though!

[pgarner]

can do better than that 1 of the guys at work had a dihatsu which required the front bumber to be removed to change a headlight bulb
he says the newer version is worse when the bulb blows it puts the engine managment light on. you still have to take the bumber off change the bulb then take it to the dealer to reset the fault

[HDi fun]

Likewise, I'm in the country and rely upon headlights since there's no street lighting.

The Halfords things are OK, if you really need more light then fit 'em to the main beams too

[waynne]

Hey StevieDB9 I nearly got those but went for the Phillips 80% brighter. I am quite pleased with them they are certainly brighter.