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bought a pair of these for my 92 AWD yesterday for $40. figured I was bored with the stock globes and wanted to replace my lowbeams:eek: they have a light purple coating on them, which kinda made me sceptical at first since im not a big fan of the color "riceboy blue"

Anyway, they claim the light temperature from these (4000K), approaches that of a standard HID setup at 4100K. And I must say the quality of light both on the road and how they appear in the lamp is a very clean high temperature white. (actually you can see just the smallest hint of purple in the reflector lens if you catch them just right, similar to many HID setups.)

total amount of light on the road Id say wasnt really changed, but id be more inclined to blame that on the poor optics of the
1G fixed headlights. The highbeams actually arent bad, but the lowbeams are just pathetic.:mad:

overall Id do it again...if not for the wamer light color on the road then definitley for the subtle bling-factor.:cool:
 
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What place did you buy yours from? I tried to locate a pair lately in my city but without much success. Just don't like that mail-order thing, however it looks like the only way to go. Also, one local hop-up shop told me that silverstars weren't approved for the US and are considered grey market. I personlally could care less thou and think the guy was probably full of it and was just trying to sell his stuff. What's the wattage rating for low beams, standard or any higher? I heard about modifying high beam (9006) base to fit the low beam nest. That way the higher output high beam bulb can be used.
From all the reviews this bulb looks the best so far. Any other inputs?
 
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rRed92Tsi said:
What place did you buy yours from? I tried to locate a pair lately in my city but without much success. Just don't like that mail-order thing, however it looks like the only way to go. Also, one local hop-up shop told me that silverstars weren't approved for the US and are considered grey market. I personlally could care less thou and think the guy was probably full of it and was just trying to sell his stuff. What's the wattage rating for low beams, standard or any higher? I heard about modifying high beam (9006) base to fit the low beam nest. That way the higher output high beam bulb can be used.
From all the reviews this bulb looks the best so far. Any other inputs?
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You should be able to get a pair for your car at any Schucks/Kragen/Checker autoparts store. (The store name just depends on what part of the country you are in...it's Schucks where I live.) I didnt want to mailorder them either if i didnt have to, so I found from the website:

http://www.sylvania.com/auto/silverstar.htm

There's nothing illegal about these, BTW, so I guess he didnt know what he was talking about. He may have been thinking of the Phillips VisionPlus bulbs, which for some reason are only sold in Europe and Asia. (They dont make the VisionPlus bulbs in 9006/9005 in case you're wondering, but I did have a pair of these on my MR2 Turbo, and they were nice too.)

The SilverStars only come in 60W for the 9006 low-beam, and 70W for the 9005 high-beam (from website). No other wattages are available it looks like.

you probably could put the high-beam bulbs in the low-beam lamps...I dont even think you need to modify anything. The only visual difference between the high/low bulbs is the coating on the tip of the 9006, which I think is there to reduce glare. The 1700 lumens of the high beam sure sounds tempting. (low beams are only rated at 1000 lumens.)
 
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I posted in Electronics Tech about a link I found on how to put a 9005 bulb into the 9006 housing. Its very simple but requires VERY slight modding. It isnt just a plug and play thing. Anyway, the high beam as mentioned is 1700 lumens or about 70% brighter than the low beam so just by swapping a 9005 bulb into the 9006 housing you will gain light, let alone swapping a silverstar 9005 bulb in there.
 
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16g-95GSX said:
I posted in Electronics Tech about a link I found on how to put a 9005 bulb into the 9006 housing. Its very simple but requires VERY slight modding. It isnt just a plug and play thing. Anyway, the high beam as mentioned is 1700 lumens or about 70% brighter than the low beam so just by swapping a 9005 bulb into the 9006 housing you will gain light, let alone swapping a silverstar 9005 bulb in there.
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good man:p

I guess I bought the wrong fucking bulbs then:mad:
 
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Well you bought the right bulbs, but it appears that with some custom work you can have almost high beams all the time and probably get away with it with ease.
 
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Just return it if you haven't thrown the receipt away. If they start asking questions, tell 'em that cops were on your a$$ for having such bright headlights or something:D
70% increase is well worth the hassle I guess.
 
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actually I emailed Daniel Stern at Daniel Stern Lighting and asked him about this little trick (9005 bulbs in the low beam). He said "this does work OK for projector-style low beams, but is highly NOT reccomended for reflector style low-beams like DSM's come stock with. He pointed out that it will cause a retarded amount of glare and backscatter in wet weather, and that they will only be alot of light close to the car since you have to aim them so low not to piss people off or get in trouble.

sounds like a slightly better idea might be some tad overwattage 9006's (like the 70 watt Rally bulbs that Phillips sells.)
 
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I have 85 watts low beam in mine and no problems yet..***Fingers crossed***

Actually I want some projector headlights,I know they suck as for as lighting is concerned.I was looking at the opticals from bmw,audi,vw,ect....to replace them with...We'll see what happens in the future
 
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This might be a dumb question, but isn't putting 9005 bulbs in where the 9006's should be the same as riding around with your brights on all the time? :dunno:
 
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I had to replace a broken sealed beam in my '90 and was thinking about a H4 conversion when I found the silverstars in a 4666 at Advance Auto a couple days ago. Definitely a major improvement over regular lights. They also look a lot better with my "HID style" driving lights. I thought it looked a little silly with the bright white lights and yellow looking headlights before. 2 thumbs up!
 
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dsm1995gst said:
This might be a dumb question, but isn't putting 9005 bulbs in where the 9006's should be the same as riding around with your brights on all the time? :dunno:
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No, they will be aimed different, and do to the reflector they shouldnt be as wide of a range or good of aiming.
 
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Alright here we go:

I used 9005 Silverstar bulbs and modified them so that they could fit in the low beam housing. I took some pics for you guys, and understand the passenger headlight is slightly lower and needed adjustment, but it isnt too bad. Here goes:

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Here is a shot of the comparison between the 9006 PIAA bulb, and the modified 9005 Silverstar. Guess which one is which?

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I manage to scrounge up my old crap no regular halogens, these are regular 9006 that most people have, orange? Yes. Ugly? Yes. Scattered light pattern like crazy? Yes.

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And here are the modified Silverstars, notice how much whiter the light is than crap halogens, and also noticed how very focused the light is instead of scattered everywhere.

Now I do have to add that these are 9005 Silverstars which are intended for high beam use. They emit 1700lumens as opposed to the 1000 lumens that a 9006 bulb will produce, so automatically they are 70% brighter than a regular bulb is supposed to be. I have to say that if I usd 9006 bulbs they would be very similar to the PIAA's I have, in terms of both light output and color. However the PIAA's are double the price, and therefore the Silverstars are by far the best buy. I since have now put the PIAA's back into the low beam housing, and instead switched out my regular 9005 high beams for the silverstars, and I have to say its a very nice difference when you are on back roads where there is no light. Much more light output in comparison, and the light is nicely scattered perfectly and a crystal white color.

Currently the Silverstars are 20 bucks a piece (per bulb) which may sound like alot, but PIAA's are about 40 bucks a bulb and they seem to produce the same output. Also Sylvania currently is having a 10 dollar rebate on Silverstars so right now a pair of these bulbs will run you 30 dollars with the rebate. Not bad at all IMO for the output of them, especially if you have the stock factory bulbs as you can plainly see from my pics.
 
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