Which headlight bulbs classic impreza
Which headlight bulbs classic impreza
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martinnitram

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244 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Need to change my headlight bulbs to something brighter, the ones in at the moment are these stupid blue tinged things and are not very good.
Heard the Osram nightbreaker bulbs are very good, anyone got good experience with these or anything else.

Cheers

ToothbrushMan

1,772 posts

155 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Nightbreaker now replaced with nightbreaker plus.very good bulbs.i noticed a big difference going from standard bulbs from halfords to nb+

g3org3y

22,490 posts

221 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Philips X-Treme Vision.

catman

2,504 posts

205 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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NightBreaker, or Philips Xtreme both good. Philips possibly a little better.

Tim

martinnitram

Original Poster:

244 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Can i ask, are these recommendations subaru specific or just in general, the subaru headlights really are piss poor

ShaunTheSheep

951 posts

185 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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I picked up "bosch 90 plus", tenner delivered from ECP.

I bet there are bulbs 3x more expensive which are worse than these.

ManOpener

12,467 posts

199 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Nightbreaker Plus. Best bulbs I've ever used.

martinnitram

Original Poster:

244 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Just had the bulbs out for a look, mtec 100/90 in there, never heard of these before, but they are covered in a blue film, hence the blue light.
Im sure this must dim the light output of the bulbs to some extent, plus the contrast at night isn't helped with the blue tinge.
Ill see what halfords have in stock.
Cheers

catman

2,504 posts

205 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Halfords will be expensive. I always get mine from Ebay or Amazon. I believe that the bulbs you have are illegal for road use and could damage your wiring if it hasn't been modified to suit.

Tim

MikeyMike

587 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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I've got Nightbreakers in my MR2, very good bulbs, especially at full beam. I think the best ones I've used we're Ring high performance bulbs bought from a motor factors but I can't remember the exact model.

Even Halfords performance bulbs are noticeably better than standard although it is a shame that almost all high performance bulbs have a blue tinge, Nightbreakers et'al included.

Schermerhorn

4,353 posts

219 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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H4

Choose your brightness according to your needs.

martinnitram

Original Poster:

244 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Been down halfords and got a set of their ultra range, 120% brighter, in 60/55w size as per owners manual.
Well what a difference these make, i didn't realise the old bulbs were that size, so over rated and illegal as mentioned above and by the halfords geek, possibly damaging the wiring to boot.
The 60/55w blow them away, and when you put main beam on you see more road instead of seeing about the same.

Job done.

Only had this car a few months, and every improvement ive made so far has involved putting the original equipment back.

jfbrin

415 posts

202 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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If you drive on unlit country roads regularly, I had the PIAA fog lamp conversion done too.
On full beam, it was seriously impressive but when you had to go back to dips, it sometimes felt like you turned the lights off!
The motorway signs reflected so strong, I practically had to wear shades! cool

martinnitram

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244 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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jfbrin said:
If you drive on unlit country roads regularly, I had the PIAA fog lamp conversion done too.
On full beam, it was seriously impressive but when you had to go back to dips, it sometimes felt like you turned the lights off!
The motorway signs reflected so strong, I practically had to wear shades! cool
Ill have a look into that, how would i get them to work on the main beam, my front fogs work from a separate switch, is there much involved ?
Cheers

Sir Bagalot

7,099 posts

211 months

Sunday 12th January 2014
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Euro Car Parts.... I hear they have a sale onyes