Hid Or Better Bulbs

[Dillz]

Have you got any pictures mate? How white are they?

I want my headlights to look white but I don't wanna go down the HID path.

[Adam]

No pictures. They're pretty close to white. These are heaps better than all those blue looking globes you can get.

[JET50T]

Just bought all new globes off ebay. There all philips globes and for anyone chasing the clean crisp white look I would recommend crystal vision. The diamond are good but you can notice the blue a bit too much however it doesn't show up in the photos. When compared to the crystal and diamond, the xtreme look like a traditional globe(dull yellow) however they are a huge improvement in distance and do light up the road amazingly. Highly recommend for high beam. Sorry about the quality, just a iphone..

Fog lights and parkers: Crystal vision

Low beam: diamond vision

High beam: Xtreme vision +35

[hypnodoc]

Philips Extreme (X-Treme)

• Staggeringly good filament bulb technology.
  
• High beam result looks amazing. Low beam result also excellent but not as dramatic.
  
• The extent of effect in both beams is not necessarily apparent when looking at the headlight itself or when projecting the beam onto a wall. Get out onto a long dark road and.... wow!
  
• Based on the results above, I have also bought these for my fog lights, but have yet to fit them.
  
• Completely Legal filament bulb with a plethora of new technology improvements leading to one great result.
  
• Direct Bolt In
  
• Conforms to Ford's wattage specifications, will not overheat the wires.
  
• High quality filter block UV not damage your lenses or reflectors.
  

Stay away from blue globes (even Philips)These:

• Are filter driven. The absorbed spectrum heats the globes resulting in short life (6-months)
  
• Remaining spectrum operates in a low sensitivity portion of the eye (green is highest). You are missing out on the most critical portion of light.
  
• Blue spectrum light is prone to scattering, which affects you and other traffic. In bad weather this gets worse.
  
• Deep blue portion of spectrum is difficult for the eye to focus (this is on top of the eye's relavtively poor response to blue light).
  
• If current is increased, globes heat up further and now wiring is also at risk.
  
• Large effective filament design means reflectors cannot focus beam properly, leading to more scattering and very poor light distribution. (A common perception is to interpret the hot spots as 'better and brighter', it isn't.)
  
• Cheap version have no UV filter, which damage headlight lenses.
  

Stay away from Xenon (Gas Discharge) After Market (Non-OEM)

• They are illegal in pretty much in every country for good reason, many of which are as per the blue globe noted above..
  
• The reflectors for these cars are not designed for gas discharge, they cannot focus properly producing poor distribution (see above) and scattering. An OEM gas discharge lamp is a complete system and has utterly different reflectors and supporting systems, most of which are not even part of a filament globe light.
  
• Cheap ones have no UV protection, they will wreck your lenses... these puppies can generate bulk UV.
  

Things to consider with After Market Gas Discharge and Blue Globes

OK it looks good, very dramatic. Acknowledged. Collecting data is boring and expensive. Perception sometimess interprets the dramatic (contrast, change) as being the most effective. This is often flatly wrong and misleading. One needs lots of very expensive equipment to collect data on:

• scattering back to the driver and to other traffic in different weather conditions
  
• light distribution
  
• emission spectrum
  
• physiological responses to the above
  
• durability effects
  

Regards,

aa

Fitted some Phillips Xtremes today bloody expensive from AutoPro but awesome light, well worth the spend.