Beef up your bulbs

The side light is a standard 12 volt 5 watt bulb you'd find in most cars as side lights. I replaced mine with a blue LED one i "accquired" whilst working at halfords, tbh it makes me a lot more noticeable, you'll struggle to find anything short of LED lights to upgrade to for the side light as its kinda hard to make a little buld like it is any better.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Well I could go on about cheap painted bulbs and coloured di-chroic filters stealing light away,

yes please

I can vouch for the osram nightbreakers, huge improvement over stock and when i bought them i got free sidelight upgrades too.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

yes please

The chav $hit ones basically take a low quality halogen bulb and filter out a bit of everything, leaving you with more blue in the light. Making the light appear hotter (closer to blue end of spectrum, like HIDs tend to look like)

However, because they are taking out the rest, you don't get that to see by. Also the light filtered out has to go somewhere, so it's lost as heat.

The osrams and phillips on the other hand are just a better made bulb, they get the light to look closer to blue end of spectrum by creating that sort of light, rather than imitating it. And because they're more efficient, you'll get less heat and more light for the same power.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

yes please

Yet again, I like Y-C's description.

[Dave20046]

Does anyone know if these are suitable for nakeds?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OSRAM-NIGHT-BR...742.m153.l1262

just realised I may have bought in error

[yorkie_chris]

Aye, both use H4

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Aye, both use H4

wicked thought I'd just ordered the wrong thing (the fact you get two bulbs in a pack confused me). Cheers chris merry xmas!

Hi guys,

Ive just ordered the osram nightbreakers, thought they get the best reviews. Are they ok to fit?
Also, the little (parking) light on on my 02 curvy. The 5 Wat/12v, took it out and saw its on of those push fit ones. Was gona replace it with LED one, are the 501 bulbs suitable?

cheers

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by shakie1973

Hi guys,

Ive just ordered the osram nightbreakers, thought they get the best reviews. Are they ok to fit?
Also, the little (parking) light on on my 02 curvy. The 5 Wat/12v, took it out and saw its on of those push fit ones. Was gona replace it with LED one, are the 501 bulbs suitable?

cheers

nightbreaker H4 are fine to fit to a curvy. No idea on the parking light though.