[s-cars] headlight bulbs

[Robert Myers]

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Agreed, JC.  The OEM highs plus the HID lows and frogs give excellent 
lighting.  I'm just a little bit bugged over the yellowish color of 
the OEM highs as compared to the sun white 5000K HID replacements in 
the low beams.

I definitely don't want to end up with da boy racer look.  The 5000K 
HID lights are definitely white not bluish.

Bob



At 10:28 AM 11/12/2010, JC wrote:
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>Bob -
>
>My car came loaded wif dem blue bulbs from the kooky PO. Then I replace lows
>w/ HID kit, and highs with a quality super white bulb (Narvas or Osrams or
>something I dunrecall but NOT a blue-white bulb).
>
>IMO the blue-whites are 'meh' in terms of true benefit... barely if any
>brighter than OEM bulbs, and less good for true driving illumination because
>the color is less effective.  And bulb life is proven to be much worse with
>most blue-white bulbs.
>
>But color temp might indeed match a bit better if that's bugging you (and
>depending on your HiD bulb temp... assuming you chose a smart low-temp HID
>the gap to close will be much smaller).  IMO the OEM high beams are more
>than sufficient, so even if the faux-white/blue bulb isn't quite as bright,
>it might still be OK and solve your bulb-color dissonance issue.
>
>For me, I am totally comfertible livin with the "white vs.
>ever-so-slightly-yellow shift" when hitting the high beam switch...
>basically with the HIDs my lows AND highs kick ass so any color difference
>between them is unimportant to me.
>
>JC
>
>
> >
> > Hi Y'all,
> >
> > After converting the low beams and the front fogs to 5000K
> > HID bulbs in my urS6 the ordinary OEM high beams are now
> > looking awfully yellow.  The cosmetics of it are bothering
> > me.  The "obvious"
> > solution is to do the high beams in HID as well except for
> > the delayed turn-on of the HID lights.  So...
> >
>
>
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