These are best in my experience, very expensive but worth it. I've used the Platinum series, massive improvement.
14th Nov 2006 7:01 pm
Hoops
Member Since: 03 Aug 2006
Location: Greater London
Posts: 22
Thanks LT, clearly I'm not too clued up can you tell me are the main and dipped beams different bulbs or one bulb with two fillaments. The reason i ask is a mix of stupidity and the bulbs have the same code (H7)
14th Nov 2006 7:21 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23386
Have to "pass" on that one I have the all singing & dancing (yes really) xenons on my D3. I've fitted the PIAA's to older Saabs & HSV's.
Someone will be along soon to help out, I'm sure.
14th Nov 2006 7:27 pm
Chris200100
Member Since: 22 Mar 2006
Location: Nr Cardiff
Posts: 532
the main beam and the dipped headlights are diffrent bulbs, Check your hand book for the right type of bulbs.
14th Nov 2006 7:30 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72798
At £36 upwards a bulb, ouch!
14th Nov 2006 8:58 pm
drivesafe
Member Since: 23 Feb 2006
Location: Gold Coast, Australia
Posts: 867
Ho Hoops, your Low beam, High beam and Fog lights are all H7 type globes.
My D3 has Xenons but I have the first of the MkIII Range Rovers and they came with H7 globes.
When I first bought the RR, I was doing about 6,000kms a month of which at least a third of that was night driving and I kept blowing the ordinary globes. I tried a number of different globes, including 50+ types, but none gave any better light than the originals.
A customer of mine has an auto spare parts store and he gave me two Philips Crystal Vision globes to try in the low beam.
Fitted them and took the RR for a run that night and the next day I went back and not only replaced the high beam globes but I also replaced all ( 6 ) of my 130w H3 driving light globes.
The Philips Crystal Vision globes are current rated at 55w but are light rated to the equivalent of 110w globes.
These globes are NOT as bright as the 130w globes but what makes them MUCH better is that they give out very WHITE light and this white light is what makes the difference.
For example, when driving out west at night, roos ( Kangaroos ) are a major problem, especially as the bigger mothers can be over 6 foot tall, so you DON'T want to fit them. The added problem with any roos is that they are as dumb as they come and if they are in long grass beside the road and get disturbed by your approach, they usually run in the direction they are facing which is always straight in front of you or into the side of your vehicle.
With ordinary globes, no matter how bright they are, the light is yellow and this light paints everything yellow. So as you drive along you get a yellow roo standing in the yellow grass beside the yellow road ( bit exaggerated, for effect ) so you still don’t get to make them out until you are fairly close.
With WHITE light, as you drive along, you see a brown roo standing in the green grass beside the black tarred road and so you can make out the roo a lot further away.
Anyway here’s a couple of night pics where I used the driving lights to light up a ship wreck on Fraser Is. They give you some idea of how white the light is.
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