shovelbill
Oh, the horror...
Yeah, the Sylvania Silverstars are garbage for sure. Used them before in other vehicles, very disappointing. Those XtraVisions I linked are great though, use them in everything now. I used to use GE NightHawks but they're much harder to find.
@VenomousSVT Unfortunately any halogen bulb with that blue coating like the SilverStars is going to sacrifice brightness and longevity. Plus the more yellow light you get from the clear bulbs is actually easier for your eyes to adjust to and use. Not as pretty as the white light, but what looks best is seldom what works best when it comes to this stuff.
same reason i don't like the LED lights on Harley's.......it's amazingly "bright" and i do recommend them to people, explaining the benefits to folks and the fact that i'm impressed with them.....well worth the money....IF....you can see properly. i can't
i don't like LED lighting to drive behind, it's the color temperature that gets me.......these hi-po bulbs are between 3300K and 3800K, which works just fine for my old eyeballs..........not to mention the QUALITY of the "blanket" of light......a good bulb will do that providing you have a decent lens/reflector combo.
the "blue" bulbs filter out certain colors of he spectrum.....and they also filter out the amount of LIGHT you get on the ground....the 4K+LOOK brighter, but actually put at least 20% less light out.
and let's not forget that "fog lights" on to light up the foreground is actually bad for night vision......not only is it distration, but your pupils constrict and it kills your distance vision........if you can see it 40 feet in front of you at 40 mph, you're gonna hit it.....period
but it LOOKS purty........