[Mini Lou]

Something that's been bugging me since day 1, the way the sidelights look yellow, and a little silly in comparison to the Xenons, I ordered a few different types of white lights, but still they were paling in comparison. So I decided to be brave and try out blue, and to be honest I didn't think I'd like them at all, but I'm quite pleasantly suprised and these ones are staying, loads of people have remarked on how nice they are too, so big smiles! Here's my before -



And my after -

[AidenL]

Much nicer.................

[JpMcC]

looks great Lou

are these just ordinary blue bulbs, because I want to change mine, I also hate the yellow tinge from the existing lights

[Mini Lou]

Yep, regular bulbs, I bought white LEDs first but they still looked yellow to me! I bought these ones on Ebay here's the link

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It says dark blue, but they're the ones I got exactly, and as you can see in the pic they're really not!

[nylo]

looks like a thread by the irish, north and south! tell me this, do they look blue when they're off? i just ask coz i tried blue look bulbs, which werent bad when on, but they were visibly blue when unlit, which annoyed me enough to change again...

[dalboyne]

I followed the link to eBay, and noted the bit about these bulbs being "not road legal"....????

[Mini Lou]

Yeah, when they're not on you can see the blue bulb, but it's tiny. The yellow lights bothered me more. and ok, they're not strictly road legal....however, In Dublin, they're going through a phase of stopping people for tax and insurance everywhere, I've been working a good few nights and so far, been stopped 3 times, not a word said to me. I also was following behind a cop car for about 2 miles this evening on my way home from work and it wasn't said. They're not "in your face" blue, Ive seen waaaay more offensive lights going around.

[ScottieCoop]

I've got PIAA blue side lights and they are so cool but illegal. Never mind I will change then over when asked to do so

[Paul]

www.powerbulbs.com give you the blue vision sidelights free with your order of, say, clear indicators. Good deal.

[JpMcC]

I got my sidelights changed, I think it wont be long before the police have someting to say about them, they are very blue

[nylo]

jps, i like those, where'd you get them?

[JpMcC]

nylo I just got them in the local car accessories shop, they are illegal and the police have driven by me and gave me funny looks a few times so I think I'll have to change them back again

[nylo]

funny looks won't get you points or a telling off jp, so i'd only start to worry when they actually want a word with you...

[orange_juice]

those blue lights look incredible....darn coppers...

Anyone have the philips vision plus? Does the color come out to be slightly blue or crisp white??

Last thing, do the MINI's high beam low beam and fog lamp al use the same bulb types?

[dalboyne]

Yep - I use Vision Plus in main and dip (both are H7 fit). They really deliver more light on the road (and I also think the new headlight design in my new Cooper is beter than the original one). The light comes out a clean white, no hint of blue as far as I can tell.

There's been some discussion about the fog lights - not sure which thread, but I don't think it's that easy to get at them.......

Ian