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Old 02-25-2013, 05:15 PM   #268
luan87us
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"Xenon, LED, and filament-bulb lamps are three completely different technologies. They produce light using wholly different means, and therefore they look different. They're supposed to look different. Trying to match the color of a Xenon or LED lamp with a halogen bulb is pointless and counterproductive. It'll never look the way you want it to, and in the meantime all you're doing is wasting money, reducing your seeing ability, creating glare, and in many cases destroying the safety performance and legal compliance of your car's lighting system. "Color temperature" / "Kelvin rating" (correct terminology: CCT) is a real
phenomenon, but its use in the advertisement of automotive lighting
products is almost entirely fraudulent. Higher-CCT light, contrary to
misinformed and disinformed advertising hype, is not "closer to natural
daylight" and does _not_ help you see better in any way, and it produces
significantly worse seeing performance in any kind of bad weather. All
higher-CCT light does is change the appearance of the operating headlamp
and, outside of a very small range created by different surface luminance
characteristics of different legitimate bulb designs, increase glare and
reduce total and usable light output." Daniel Stern Lighting

I got the Phillips H9 bulbs as well and did expect a whiter look. However I'm very happy with the less yellow look compared to the OEM ones. I bought a $9 dremel tool from Harbor Freight which made the the trimming so much easier coupled with small wire cutter. Cut most of the tab off then grind the rest off with a grinding tip. Also according to Daniel Stern the Phillips H9 bulbs are VERY good bulbs. Cheap fix to the OEM lights. Now I can see so much better at night and in snow storms.
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