Originally posted by RogerB:
Originally posted by Drumbo:
Originally posted by RogerB:
Allow me to add to the negative.

If you want the max light output, get the Sylvania Xtravision. It's the same bulb and internal gas charge of the blue-filtered Silverstars without the light-filtering blue coating, or the increased scatter and glare of "blue" wavelength light (esp in bad weather.)

Better yet, get Philips Premiums, $30/pair from http://www.autooptiks.com/front.htm. Even more light output, and available in high and low beam.

There is no inherent advantage to high "color temps" or blue-white light, and "looking brighter" doesn't mean it really is brighter.

But, if you want that fashionable faux-HID look, the Silverstars are an OK choice. Get the Cool-Blues if all of your friends have them, and you want to be laughed at by anyone over the age of 25.







Making a fast-pass of the Autooptiks Automotive Lighting Info webpage, right away, the first thing there that made me say "Hmmm?" was this:

"...the human eye has evolved over billions of years."

One billion can also be expressed as 1000 million. The earliest known humans date back no more than two million (.002 billion) years.

The fact they positioned a bogus, over-hype statement in the front of their "Info" page makes me wonder which other elements of their "test-data" may have been similarly exaggerated. Bottom line is, it damages the credibility of all the information that follows.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.






The only information I quoted from that site is the price and availability of what is confirmed elsewhere as a very good bulb with no blue-white hype.




Fair enough. I make no bones about what you said.

In fact, the reason I immediately followed your link to autooptiks was because your post was totally in-line with my skepticism about gimmick bulbs.

Although my "math lesson" may seem like nit-picking, having once been in advertising, I assure you, when you're trying to sell something, the first thing you learn in Copywriting 101 is: Don't blatently insult the intelligence of your target-market.

Ad-jabber about humans being on the planet before the sun ignited screams two things: (1) BUSH-LEAGUE OUTFIT!! and (2) CAUTION! BOGUS INFORMATION AHEAD!!

Bottom line: My criticism was directed at autooptiks' over-hyped sales pitch, and not at your well-intentioned information.

Drumbo