anyone kno what a good headlight would be for the low beams to get sort of a blue-purple color? kind of an indigo color

Cool Blues

sorry, guess i misworded that. What kind and what brand is it? i'd prefer sylvania if they have any.

only thing i can think of from sylvania are there sliver star series blubs
they have a nice blueish tint to them.

http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/A...nce/Silverstar/

I think the silver stars are just plane white. I had them in the car for awhile, they've went out on me twice now. I've kept the stock ones and put them back in. As soon as I feel like I have enough extra money, I'll put them back in.

Blue = bad at night.

The blue-purple tint is even worse.

Blue light causes tunnel vision, greater glare, and won't penetrate rain/snow/fog. And EVERY halogen light with a blue colour is tinted, meaning a large chunk of its light is being filtered out.

The Sylvania Silverstars are the only tinted halogen bulbs I know of (Philips might make one, can't remember right now) that produce the same or greater illumination as the most basic halogen bulb.

Let me put this as strongly as I can: Sylvania Silverstars are LIGHTLY tinted, yet lose 40% of their light output. Any bulb with a blue-purple output will not be lightly tinted. (The 40% loss is based on the untinted Osram Silverstars, which are the same bulb design and produce 150% of the light a standard halogen does. A Sylvania Silverstar's tint cuts that down to 110%).

Silverstars aren't tinted. They're mostly bright white. OCCASIONALLY you see a hint of blue/purple, but they're white for the most part, and that's for a reason.

Sylvania Cool Blues are really really blue, but the visibility sucks.

k, thanx guys, guess i'll go w/ the whites.

I just put in the Sylvania whites about two weeks ago for ~$40. I love them everytime I go out. They're so much brighter

i kno this isnt on topic, but i didnt really wanna take up webspace by starting a new thread. Does anyone have the sylvania silverstar irradescent bulbs in their turn signals in the tail lights? my friend recently got some and they are the most gorgeous color of amber i have ever seen on a car. What im trying to ask is, will they look just as good in the tail lights, as they look in his front turn signals?

-FSX_Celica94GT+Oct 2, 2005 - 11:38 AM

Yeah, probably. That's a lot of money there though. You've got 3 talelight bulbs on each side, 4 if you count the reverse. Those sylvians are expensive. I've wanted to do exactly what your talking about, but I just can't bring myself to spend that much on lights.

im just talking about the turn signals. I think they're only like 20 bux, but they're very nice bulbs, and after my friend got em i really wanted em, so i guess i can bring myself to spend 20 on 2 bulbs that look really good.

Sylvania Cool Blues are standard H4 bulbs with a light blue tint, putting out the minimum legal 850 lumens.

Sylvania Silverstars have a 4000K colour temperature, compared to the 3200K of standard halogens, because they have a light blue tint applied to the bulb. By cutting out some of the lower frequency wavelenghts (read yellow light), the overall colour temperature is higher, meaning the light LOOKS whiter. Whiter does not equal brighter, as the Cool Blues attest.

Silverstars are ultra-high-efficiency bulbs, with a design based off the H7 bulb to produce more usable light, with a sacrifice in bulb life.

Osram owns Sylvania. Sylvania Silverstars are tinted Osram Silverstars.