[venox22]

Which replacement indicator bulbs are better in peoples views?? Not sure if the Diadem look to boyracer blue, and not sure if the silvervision are silver enough!

[minigolf]

Neither will be perfect I'm afraid. But both are a vast improvement over the stock egg yolk look.

Give it a couple of days and I'll be able to do a test for you.



Cheers Liam

[minigolf]

Left: Osram Diadem : Right: Philips Silvervision



Osram Diadem




Philips Silvervision

[venox22]

Thanks, guess i should have got the osram ones, ordered the Phillips yesterday!! doh

[Mini Me GB]

Quote: Originally Posted by venox22

Thanks, guess i should have got the osram ones, ordered the Phillips yesterday!! doh

In reality when your not that close or front on - the Philips look much less yellow than that..

[minigolf]

Mini Me GB is right, I just bought the Philips globes to replace the Osram ones.

[AndrLync]

Don't think you'll have a problem with the silver indicator bulbs, once they are in the look white - in my opinion they look better than the blue ones, you're just swapping one colour (yellow) for another (blue).

Take a look at the photo....

[venox22]

Yeah just fitted the phillips one, think i made the right choice!!

[ollies]

i got philips silver vision too they look fine insatalled ,also got blue led side light bulbs off ebay

[minigolf]

Quote: Originally Posted by AndrLync

Don't think you'll have a problem with the silver indicator bulbs, once they are in the look white - in my opinion they look better than the blue ones, you're just swapping one colour (yellow) for another (blue).

Take a look at the photo....

Definitely agree. For some reason my pics came out a bit different to how the eye usually sees the Silvervisions. AndrLync's pic above gives a much better impression of how these globes look.

[Baker]

The Diadem look noticably blue, wasn't happy with them when I got them (was a group buy, long, long ago ).

Still looks 100% better than the norm though! Only thing I'm thinking of replacing them with is a proper "chrome" blub, that'll look perfect.

[whokilledkaji]

How well do the Phillips Silvervision lights match up with Xenon headlights?

I mean, do they produce pretty clear, white light?

[venox22]

The bulb we are talking about is the Phillips Silvervision indicator bulb, which when lit flashes orange, but has a chrome-type covering avoiding the egg-yolk look!

I have recently changed my full beam lights to try and get that zenon look to match my zenon main's, i used phillips bluevision, they give better distance for driving but still dont look anything like the zenon's, i also used phillips bluevision sidelights which came with the Full beam bulbs, these too dont look anything like the zenon's. I think you need led's for the sidelights

[OldRick]

Be aware that with either version, the chrome coating does block about 30% of the available light. On the Sylvania version in the US, they use a 27-watt filament to compensate. If you are using a 21-watt chromed bulb, you are getting the light equivalent of a 15-watt bulb, i.e. significantly dimmer than stock.

I haven't found any 27-watt non-chromed replacement bulb for the 7507 bulbs, and there is no US-equivalent bulb number.

[minigolf]

That may be the case OldRick, but I can't say that, in Australian conditions at least, the light given from the Silvervision globes would cause any problems. IMO the only way you could prove any light blockage would be by undertaking a proper scientific test, certainly with the naked eye I doubt you would be causing anyone any problems.

[OldRick]

minigolf - It's been said that you can't be too thin or have too much money. Racers say that you can't have too much light.

For myself, I figure that in a tiny little car, you can't be too visible...

[OldRick]

venox22 - Here is a quote from the prop. of www.superlumination.com - a Canadian firm that sells both LED and standard auto bulbs of all kinds. My question was whether their 20-LED "tower" replacing the 7507 turn signal bulbs would produce any more light than the factory 21-watt bulbs.

"These produce more light output than any other 7507 leds made, but no leds produce as much light output as clear glass incandescent bulbs."

You may not be getting what you think you want, if you are replacing the factory bulbs with LEDs.

minigolf - If you don't think that a 25-30% upgrade in wattage produces a significant amount of additional light, try replacing all the 75-watt bulbs in you home with 60-watt bulbs - then try to read the newspaper.

A 30% increase in wattage of your auto bulbs gives a Major increase in vision and visibility.

[AndrLync]

Personally I don't think the naked eye will notice a difference between the factory yellow bulbs and a silver-coated indicator.

It was a (minor) concern when I replaced mine but I can't tell any difference in brightness between my Cooper with the silver bulbs and my girlfriend's Cooper with factory-standard indicators.

If you were monkeying around with headlights then I might agree with OldRick but just can't see it ( ) with indicators....

[venox22]

This is getting too much for me!!!

[AndytheScientist]

I replaced the stock yellow bulb last night with the philips silver visions. I swapped on in first to see what they looked like and actually thought the philips bulb looked brighter than the stock bulb. Certainly no dimmer. To the naked eye the unlit light looks pretty much as neer to white as your going to get, certainly no egg yolk effect.