so i blew a headlight the other day ... ( i was surprised to see my display in the dask give me a cool little x'ed-out bulb indicator to let me know... nice job Audi.. didn't even know i had that )

..and at a recent GTG someone recommended Silvania SiverStars..
..has anyone else gotten these and was there really a NOTICABLE difference ??

..and those aren't those cheesy blue lights are they ??

 

they arent blue... i have em on my a4... they are "brighter" i'd stick w/ piaa inthe future...

 

I'd get the PIAA's even if they are blue. What's wrong with blue? My xenons are blue...
I wouldn't go getting like 9000K purple lights or anything...but 5000-7000K looks great, I think.

 

will just bulbs give a better light output?

 

If you dont have HID, colored halogens (fake xeons) arent going to be any brighter than a regular halogen like sylvania or whatever is oem. I think with a HID kit you can get true xeons which are way better than halogens.... I think.... I might be wrong but thats what I gathered from the post you were refering to. I finaly replaced my blown headlight today with a regular sylvania H7, which I think are great. Or are silverstars a HID bulb????

 

No you can get better light output from just bulbs. I guarantee it. My dads old school B3 passat went from stock to some 4150K PIAA's and the difference was remarkable... we even did a drive with just one PIAA bulb installed to see the difference. It was very noticable. Much whiter light, too.

 

ricer







lol

 

I went to the PIAA website to check em out all i see are "star white" bulbs.. Its an H7 bulb right? I believe you, I dont know the differences from personal experience.

 

I put in the silverstars looking for a whiter light, but was somewhat dissappointed when they pretty much look the same as stock - especially with the stock foglights in there (which I leave on pretty much all the time).

I'd say either go with a high end white PIAA (my buddy had them in his protege, and they looked really good - not blue at all), or install a nice real-deal xenon kit. There was a dude selling the RS6 kits for 300 bucks at oemhid.com, but I don't think that deal is up anymore. Too bad.

 

Haha you bastard. :P