[s-cars] headlight bulbs

[Harold McComas]

Ditto what Larry said on the HIR's. IIRC, I had to trim some plastic off to 
get to fit, nothing major. Anytime I see tinted bulbs, I think of wearing 
sunglasses at night, you may think you look cool, but ...  ;-)

Harold


 From: LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] headlight bulbs
> To: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
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> Bob,
>
> Have you ever tried the Toshiba HIR 9011 bulbs in the high beams(
> www.powerbulbs.com) ?  Seriously stupid amounts of well placed light,
> however, the color temp is probably not up to your cosmetic needs. Any
> incandescents that have a color temp remotely close to 5K K are probably 
> all
> tinted, since an incandescent glow that'll last is really just not all 
> that
> hot. End result is less light, and less time to react to Bambi.
>
> LL - the deer dodger - NY
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:
>
>> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
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>> 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...
>>
>> In spite of my natural skepticism I have been seeing ads for those
>> Sylvania SilverStar bulbs which look (in the ads) to be closer in
>> look to my HIDs than the OEM lights.  Does anyone have any BTDTs with
>> these lights?  Are they actually brighter than OEM bulbs?  What does
>> the color temperature look like compared to HID lights?  Would I just
>> end up throwing my money away if I were to try the SilverStar bulbs?
>>
>> Bob