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- wejxf03
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I'm a new Jimny owner (2001 auto)
I've just been out for the first time at night and wasn't impressed with the headlights.
I've seen the posts about polishing the lenses (mine are a bit cloudy) but can anyone recommend uprated bulbs.
Mine seem to give a yellowish tinge especially on dipped beam.
Thanks, John.
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Comparing to modern cars which tend to have independent bulbs (or LED) for HI / LO beam, they are never going to complete with this design using a single combined bulb, it's an old design.
That said a lense polish and quality bulbs is going to make the best of them. Never used night breaker myself, tried Halfords own +150% and while they are brighter on HI, LO remains less noticeable and slightly yellow.
I did consider changing my front fogs to combined DRL / Fog, using the DRL to assist LO beam, but never tried this.
May do it one day.
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Looking at the the Eurocarparts website I see it's a standard H4 bulb so various makes to choose from.
I'll have a look round.
John
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They came from Eurocarparts I think
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LED for a H4 lamp is a bad solution as the geometry of the light will rarely be correct. Not sure if it is at all possible.
But the 150% and even more, wouldn't those burn the reflectors?
I would be careful to recommend them, just swapped the headlamps on my VW T5 because previous owner had used wrong bulbs. it was a pain of a job btw...
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Before I saw all the replies I rightly or wrongly ordered some Neolux H4 +50%
Thought it was worth risking from carpartsforless (£10).
Will let you know how it turns out when I get round to fitting them.
Cheers, John.
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yakuza wrote: I too like the nightbreakers. big improvement from the old ones.
LED for a H4 lamp is a bad solution as the geometry of the light will rarely be correct. Not sure if it is at all possible.
But the 150% and even more, wouldn't those burn the reflectors?
I would be careful to recommend them, just swapped the headlamps on my VW T5 because previous owner had used wrong bulbs. it was a pain of a job btw...
The 190%bulbs I have are the same idea as the Nightbreaker, the filament winding is the same resistance as a normal 55/60w unit but the mixture of gases in the bulb is different. Instead of halogen they use things like xeon in a proprietary blend that gives a whiter light.
What burns lamps and wires is using higher wattage bulbs like a 100/150w. They are still halogen but have a much higher resistance filament winding and run an order of magnitude hotter than the normal bulb so can easily melt plastic reflectors and draw too much current for the standard wiring
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Lambert wrote:
yakuza wrote: I too like the nightbreakers. big improvement from the old ones.
LED for a H4 lamp is a bad solution as the geometry of the light will rarely be correct. Not sure if it is at all possible.
But the 150% and even more, wouldn't those burn the reflectors?
I would be careful to recommend them, just swapped the headlamps on my VW T5 because previous owner had used wrong bulbs. it was a pain of a job btw...
The 190%bulbs I have are the same idea as the Nightbreaker, the filament winding is the same resistance as a normal 55/60w unit but the mixture of gases in the bulb is different. Instead of halogen they use things like xeon in a proprietary blend that gives a whiter light.
What burns lamps and wires is using higher wattage bulbs like a 100/150w. They are still halogen but have a much higher resistance filament winding and run an order of magnitude hotter than the normal bulb so can easily melt plastic reflectors and draw too much current for the standard wiring
Yes I know. Double the watt and you have double the temp. Loss/heat is almost constant for same kind of bulb. But I thought different gases could give higher temperature as well. .
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