Hey all.....I am looking to replace my factory regular bulbs with something brighter. I am considering going with Piaa's, but are there better choices out there that I may not be aware of?

I do not want to go with H.I.D's.



If I do go with an aftermarket brand & I stick with the same wattage #'s, will I end up frying my wires or what? My TrailBlazer was notorious for going through wires about every 4 months....that things sucked! I was using stock wattages with some of those funky bluish tint bulbs.


Problem with the cheaper bulbs that I had used in the past is that they had short range & a sharp cutoff. The high beams were even worse.....so what do I do?
Who has used what & how were they? Did they last long?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I swithced my lows with sylvania silverstar 9006 ST/2 and they look good. Its a cleaner white light and it wont burn up. I also switched my fogs with yellow H11 bulbs I got from autolumination.com and the combo looks good. Hope that helps

How are the amber fogs....do they still illuminate as good as the whites or no?

There the krypton yellow and there actually pretty bright, well at least the right one is I think I have a bad bulb in the left one so I ordered another and am waiting for it.

I talked to one of Piaa's reps today & she told me to go with the Piaa Extreme White bulbs. They would be the brightest, longest lasting bulb that they have. I was told that if I bought the bulbs through one of their distributors, that I get a 1 year warranty on them. So if they blow.....I get a free replacement...as long as I keep my receipts.

Anyway I am going to try & swing it. New highs, lows & fogs....all in the Extreme White. Why not....I really thought about getting the Ambers like yours....think that would look great, but I use my fogs as low beam additions & not really for foul weather.....still that yellow look would be sick!

Yeah I really dont use mine that often now that im living in the city, but it is nice to have them back home. Anyways I think the lights your choosing should look pretty good too.

Cool man thank you for the information. Once I can swing it I will post the differences....but it's going to be a while. Overtime has been cut out lately....so my additional funds have been cut off......sometime this spring...hopefully before summer LOL!

If money is an issue, then perhaps you shouldn't be buying PIAA bulbs.



If you want the full post, you can find it HERE. Lots of info for all of the 2008 Lancer bulbs, including tail lights and city lights.

Very cool man thank you freakingwilly!

I appreciate it.

Happy to share! :beer:

great info thanks

I was going to stay out of this conversation but...all the ebay brands are the SAME BULB with different packaging. I have tested 20 different brands and they are all the same bulb made by the same manufacturer....90% of them will all say sunshine bulb or someting like that on the neck of the connector.

Whenever you upgrade your bulbs I would reccomend buying a headlight harness upgrade adapter...it plugs into your stock headlight plug, adds thicker gauge wire and a better harness plug that plugs into the new bulb to prevent overheating...they are like $4 at any local autozone, pepboys.

I am an authorized light retailer and I can tell you that the high end brands are all made at the same place also ...this includes Streetglow, philips, and SIlvania silverstars.

If someone can direct this to the admin or site owner I would love to work with him in offering members here a discount...and a LIFETIME BULB REPLACEMENT WARRENTY!!!! That is the same deal I offer all members at the other forums I visit. So please...admin..email me

steelhumm@verizon.net

Thanks!

I have replaced my low and high beam with Luminics Titaninium White and Ultra White for the fog lights on my black 08 Lancer. Looks cool -- but does anyone else think it provide less visibility and seems 'washed out' then the regular bulb. I have had the Silverstar on my 99 Civic and those seems to be much better visibility wise.

Would like others opinion on this :unsure:

welll....obviously the admin or mods here don't care...soooo

Luminics are a run of the mill brand....same as the nokya bulbs you see on ebay...same as most ebay bulbs for that matter.

look at this comparison

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that is what you are looking for in Xenon bulbs. That is a picture of my hummer with the streetglow Xenon ultra white bulbs installed. I can give any and all forum members a good deal on bulbs, strobes, under car neon/led kits...anything..and offer a LIFETIME REPLACEMENT WARRANTY!!! The last bulb you will ever buy ;)

just let me know

Mike

I've had the same problem with replacing my stop and tail markers to LEDs. Red LEDs seem to be dimmer than stock and white LEDs in the red housing do seem washed out, providing more of an orange glow.

The Philips SilverVision bulbs seem to get great reviews and are highly recommended for those who do not want to follow the HID path. They're slightly better than HIDs because they are halogen bulbs and don't need a DRL bypass. I still recommend HIDs since they use less energy and they are much brighter than any halogen bulb. I bought a 5000K low beam kit for my GTS and they look phenominal! Entire install took no more than 30 minutes, but I have yet to bypass the DRLs. I am currently forced to drive with my HIDs on during the daylight.

And steelhumm, any type of strobe on your car is most likely illegal. I believe the police terminology would be "impersonating a police officer/official." ;)

not true :bwekk:

they are illegal if you use them on public roads...no lighting is illegal to just have installed. Construction companies, plow companies, tow companies, volly fire/emt (in most areas) are all allowed to use strobes.

True... but our Lancers are none of the above. :57:

? If your a volly fire/emt/aux police then any car you drive is allowed strobes.

I've sold 200 sets in the last 5 months...they are a VERY popular item. Same as the undercar neon or LED kits...I sell them all the time and they are illegal to drive on the street with them on in most areas. I sold 6 multi-color under car LED kits and wheel well kits last week alone...the glow scene was dead for a few years but it is really getting hott again.

Mike.......e-mail sent 2 U.

Interested in seeing what you have for our cars & for what price.


The Mod is probably as busy as you or me.......if you want to get his attention.....just send him a PM :57:

Imo When I firs got the car I really didn't want to spend money on HID especially with the DRl problem. I eneded up getting Sylvanian ultra silverstars or soemthing lie that. Put only one in in my lowbeams. By just looking at it, I couldn't tell the differnce between the color, it looked exactly the same to me. I ended up taking those out and putting in HIDs and spliced them into the parking lights to get rid of the DRL. I'm just obsessed with the white headlights and fogs, I really dislike the stock bulbs