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On my way home last night one of my bulbs popped, so got car home and looked online, there are 2 types of lamps fitted to my make using different bulbs, mine had to be the HID Xenon type didn't it and not the £7 Halogen type, so after the initial shock of having to spend £70 on a bulb I looked at some tutorials on how to fit the bulb to my Volvo, so easy the missus could do it blindfolded with one hand, anyway off I popped to our car spares shop and bought the only two he had in as its common knowledge, if I fit one I will be fitting another tomorrow, now the good bit, two identical bulbs, two identical manufacturers two identical barcodes yet one is blue and the other is white...........how does that work then, phoned the shop and they are getting me one in for Tuesday.........will it be white or blue????? I have removed the new white one as I reckon the latest model will be blue, but how odd.
 
Very odd that two HID bulbs should be different colour output - what are they? There are LOTS of fake bulbs out there, and many more cheap nasty ones.
 
They are Ring HID Xenons bought from a reputable garage £70 EACH so I doubt they will be copies as when I took the white one back, they phoned Ring supplier up whilst I was there and were told the blue is the latest 5000k bulb and the white one is the older 4100k model, hopefully I should be picking the other blue one up tomorrow
 
wow my car is £5 a bulb
how does a bulb be that much
reamed you are :-)
 
Mr Bump said:
wow my car is £5 a bulb
how does a bulb be that much
reamed you are :)
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I wish, some Volvos have the H7 bulbs at about £5 and some like mine have the HID system, I prayed they were H7s when taking the lamps off the car this morning............b****r
 
Just been back to the garage and the bulbs are correct, one looks blue but it isn't its only the offside lamp that has an anti dazzle reflector inside it that makes it look blue, strange if you ask me
 
Unfortunately they are standard on my V70 so couldn't use a cheaper bulb
 
JonathanRyan said:
Nope. I've never honestly seen the point. All they seem to do is dazzle other drivers.

If I drove off road then I'd have them but for use on unlit roads the cheapies seem fine to me.
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Unless the alignment is out, they won't dazzle other drivers anymore than standard bulbs.
On unlit roads, they provide a crisper whiter light that tends to extend further along the road than a standard bulb will. Safer for the driver and other people / animals.
 
oh i agree modern bulbs and technology is great, our C3 has terrible lights but its old and cheap so there you go, plus i drive so slow they are well good.
on my motorbike i ride everywhere with full beam on any way :-)
 
Mr Bump said:
oh i agree modern bulbs and technology is great, our C3 has terrible lights but its old and cheap so there you go, plus i drive so slow they are well good.
on my motorbike i ride everywhere with full beam on any way :)
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Best way, I always had full beam on during my biking days.
 
Dangermouse1964 said:
Best way, I always had full beam on during my biking days.
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That's a great way to get collected on the front of a car. :mad:

HID headlights are really helpful - my wife's car has them, and night driving is a much nicer experience, plus as said, they are no more likely to dazzle than any other corerectly adjusted headlight.
 
ancient_mariner said:
That's a great way to get collected on the front of a car. :mad:

HID headlights are really helpful - my wife's car has them, and night driving is a much nicer experience, plus as said, they are no more likely to dazzle than any other corerectly adjusted headlight.
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nah they usually swerve into the kerb or ditch
 
Mr Bump said:
nah they usually swerve into the kerb or ditch
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:(

Bearing in mind the numpty debate about H&S going on elsewhere.

On a related note, flashing lights on bicycles are really dangerous, because the flashing makes it very difficult to evaluate distance.
 
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ancient_mariner said:
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Bearing in mind the numpty debate about H&S going on elsewhere.

On a related note, flashing lights on bicycles are really dangerous, because the flashing makes it very difficult to evaluate distance.
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haha oh yeas, i just consider it the same as all those muppets that drive arround with fog lights on the front.
 
Mr Bump said:
do you ride a bike, siting behind a plastic visor at night, just try it.
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That's a combination of your poor eyesight and the visor. Fog lights sit low at the front of the car and shine low in front of the car, increasing forward vision as fog is thinner near the road level, if they shone high they would be useless as they would just reflect on the fog just as main beam does.
 
It doesn't seem all that long ago when I once paid £70 for a second hand car. Granted it was a Yugo Zavanta but it tied me over for a few months.
 
£70 for bulbs?
They didn't see you coming, they sent for you :-)
 
Ian D J said:
It doesn't seem all that long ago when I once paid £70 for a second hand car. Granted it was a Yugo Zavanta but it tied me over for a few months.
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I paid £25.00 for a Vauxhall Viva when we were saving for our first house...Lasted 1.5 years he did :woot:
 
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