Beef up your bulbs

Hi guys,

Just a quick one. Im looking to beef up my standard bulbs for these crappy dark nights, and i saw these on fleebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUZUKI-SV650-S...1%7C240%3A1318 ...............any good? and if not, which ones are. My girl is an 02 curvy, so do i also need to replace the small (top) bulb, if so what size............soz, i know, anotha noob

Get some from HG if you have one near you. Phillips Power Xtreme or summit I think they are called. If your looking fo a boost in light that is.

[Viney]

Dont do it. The lens on your SV is plastic and therefore the bulbs have to have the correct UV filters in there or your lens will go yellow and crack.

Get any of the following
Osram Night Breakers
Osram silverstars
Philips X-treme

All far better than stock and not a lot tell between them at all.

[yorkie_chris]

What you have there are cheap chav-$hit bulbs that have been painted blue. Get phillips or osrams.

[Luckypants]

Well I could go on about cheap painted bulbs and coloured di-chroic filters stealing light away, but I prefer Y-C's description Go with the previous recommendations on this thread....

Phillips X-treme power

Osram Nightbreakers

Don`t try and put the guy off really cheap bulbs that have come from Hong Kong and flicker after a couple of weeks , then corrode at the base and fall away from the fitment after burning a Brown spot into your Reflector/Lens ........ jeese LOL .

No , seriously , stick with what the guys have suggested for your bulbs .

ALSO ..... he states in his auction he has sold thousands , so how come he only has 23 feedbacks , 5 of which are Red Negatives , steer clear is my advice

Cheers peeps,

Osram or phillips it is then. Also, is the H4's i need? and which one for the little centre light ?

cheers again !

[yorkie_chris]

Yes it's H4 for the UK spec bike. Dunno about the sidelight, but that doesn't do anything really.

[maviczap]

Osrams got the best review in an Auto Express product test.

Led for the centre light? I haven't bought one yet, I was going to try here.

http://www.norbsa02.freeuk.com/

[embee]

Like the others say.

I've used Phillips X-treme power lamps and they are certainly a lot better than a "standard" type.

I've had lamps from Powerbulbs through their website, but they do much better deals on the fleebay shop like these (I assume they really are the same people).

I don't think there's anything to choose between the X-tremes and Nightbreakers, either will do you fine.

I've heard there are some fake ones for sale on some sites, so as usual it's buyer beware.