Reply With QuoteI fitted Osram Night Breakers just after the summer and the difference between the standard halogen bulbs is, ahem, cough… night and day.
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Chaps,
Please forward the BEST h1 and h7 bulbs for distance and brightness, max watts 65.
I fitted Osram Night Breakers just after the summer and the difference between the standard halogen bulbs is, ahem, cough… night and day.
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Osram Night Breakers or Philips Extreme Vision are my go-to bulbs; I've always changed them when I had halogen headlights and has been said, the difference is night and day. You can't really go wrong for around £25.
P.S. "Standard" headlight bulbs are 55w (which is the legal max I believe?)
I used nightbreakers in my old car and they illuminated better than the standard one halogens but for me they’d only last around 6-8 months before dying.
Can’t be technical, but fitted Philips X-Treme Vision in both cars.
A definite improvement when living in an area with so few illuminated roads.
I just bought a pair of H7 Night Breakers from Amazon for £13 or so.Originally Posted by vagabond
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Presumably you'd need to put 55w back in for MOT then?
Or stick to 55W and not piss off other drivers?
Sorry should have clarified; the Osram and Philips bulbs mentioned are all 55w - which is the "standard". They have a higher light output due to filament tech etc. not power. You can buy bulbs that are over 55w but I don't believe they are legal.
Ahh thanks...might try some then.
There's 2 different specs of Osram Nightbreaker, 'Ultimate' and 'Laser', the Laser's are the newer higher output ones (130% more light compared to standard halogen, ultimates are 110%). Both are pretty cheap on amazon, i'm about to order some H4's
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Lucas Light Booster 50/90/120% brighter bulbs. Legal wattages with boosted outputs. Had lots of good feedback.
http://www.lucaselectrical.co.uk/dow...-catalogue.pdf
Lasers… I want lasers, NOW!!!
Used Amazon many times when buying bulbs. Regularly find them to be cheapest
A trip to the opticians can also help! Seriously! My reactolites had a permanent 20% tint which restricts night vision.
Are there not some cheaper (Chinese) alternatives to Philips and osram bulbs these days? Would of thought there would be by now. I have nightbrakers but honestly i didnt think there was that much difference from my old halogens.
I caught a section of one of these "Fake Britain" type programs recently - funnily enough it was about a raid on a site suspected of trading fake car bulbs. Apparently there is a huge market for fake bulbs (just like everything these days I suppose) - even the Osram/Philips company guys, who were on hand with the Police, were hard pushed to tell the difference at the scene. However when properly tested there was a huge difference.
Nighteye are worth looking at for H7 fitment I swapped my standard bulbs for these last summer way better than Philips and osram
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NIGHTEYE-Au...hteye+h7&psc=1
Get yourself a new BMW i8. They have real laser headlights, an £8000 optional extra.Lasers… I want lasers, NOW!!!
No, sadly they don’t look like some sort of scanning laser headlight. The laser is used to excite phosphor or something and produce extremely bright normal light.
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Interesting, pricey though.
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F263098168053
Can be had a little cheaper 👍🏻
Ring Rallye bulbs, for durability more than anything, my car eats other types of bulbs with great regularity, replacing the main beams twice each side during winter is a PITA.
Aren't these illegal in the UK?
Yes. One of my cars has LED bulbs similar to these fitted and for the last 3 MoTs has passed without issue. However I have heard that there are plans to bring in tighter controls and checks on (non-OEM) LED bulbs in the near future. So that may change.....
I think they are OK if adjusted OK. Technically xenon bulbs need to have self adjustment and headlight washers but this is for new cars.
More importantly is to get a bulb that is designed for the headlight you have. Cars with reflectors designed for incandescent bulbs mostly work by emitting light in 360 degrees and reflecting light forwards. Xenon bulbs use projectors and so have horrible scatter if put into a standard reflector.
My bike headlight I upgraded to HID but fitted a projector into the (now redundant) headlight reflector - adjusted correctly it has passed MOT and I have never been flashed or stopped by the police for it.
When I looked at LED bulbs they were either not CE marked, had poor throw or both but this technology moves quickly.
Personally I would stick with uprated, legal, incandescent bulbs or do a full HID conversion including projectors.
Some cars and bikes already have projectors with incandescent bulbs and here LED or HID bulbs would probably give a good improvement without annoying other road users.
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Sadly headlights never seem to be checked these days other than for function. There is a high proportion of cars out there with badly aimed lights so I doubt they'd check bulb wattage. There is a tiny risk the rozzers might pull you (!) but only they if they were very bored.
just got hold of some Ring 150% brighter bulbs. really rather good.
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