HankScorpio

What are the chances (and consequences) of getting pulled for high K bright bulbs that are not E marked and therefore illegal?

I fancy some LED sides and something like piaa Xtreme Force mains/dipped.
If they appear to be like HIDs wouldn't people just assume they're HIDs?

cogin

Non E-marked bulbs would fail a MOT, If the tester bothered to look. The risk comes form having an older car that looks like it shouldn't have HID bulbs then you may get a tug, the other thing worth noting is if you run high wattage bulbs above which the wiring was desiged you could end up with a expensive bonfire!!!!

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Lots of these higher wattage bulbs about now, but on test, MOST of them put LESS light where you'd want it, due to poor manufacturing tolerances.

In the end, it depends what you want the bulbs to do. If you want to SEE better, get some GE Megalight 60% uprated, or Philips Vision Plus 50% uprated.
If you want to be seen to have bright bulbs, however ..............

Alcazar

cogin

Just check the bulbs in mine, i replaced the std one's with Osram Silverstar, Claim to be 50% brighter and do improve visabilty, they are also E-marked and only cost £14, there are others that give less light output but have the blue effect you are loking for also E-marked, Check out this link

Import Car Parts - Japanese car parts for Subaru, Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Mitsubishi and more

AndyMoody

iTrader: (2)

I've changed to the Osram Silverstar too on dip and they are much better than the OEM fit. H1 for dip on MY03.

HankScorpio

Thanks for the replies chaps.
I would like led sides cos the look cool

Mains and dipped are for vision purposes.
I've used Philips before but quite fancied the PIAA as above but not if it's going to get me in trouble.
They're not higher wattage, just different intensity and colour of light.

jasonius

iTrader: (1)

The HID's in group buys are very good, go for the 4000k.

I had GE megalights +60% and have just changed to a set of 6k HID's. When I had fitted one side I tried a comparison and honestly the remaining GE looked like a yellow candle, even in daylight..!

I thought the GE's were good but compared to a good set of HID's they are litrally, excuse the pun, night and day..!

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Are we talking H4? If so, what's the main beam like? I've heard it can be worse than halogen main beam........

Alcazar

P555GAZ

have you got morrets. i ve got them on my bugeye bulbs are poo taking it for head lights lifting up tomorrow

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

I have Morettes, but on a classic, four Cibie units.

Alcazar