Please do not argue about different brands of bulbs in this thread - This is to help other members make a decision and see the difference for themselves.

I ordered some Philips Blue Vision on Tuesday due to the standard bulbs being very poor. I ordered them from Powerbulbs at a cost of £19.45 They were delivered the day after with no troubles - very impressive as customer satisfaction seems to of deserted most companies these days.

I received the bulbs this morning and got straight to fitting them .

First thing I noticed is that you need to be between the ages of 3 and 5 to be able to get the bulbs out of the holder.

After messing about for what seemed about an hour (pure exaggeration) - was actually about 15 mins I manged to get them all fitted.

The results are pretty good although the images are taken in daylight you can clearly see the difference.

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As you can see from the pictures the light from the bulbs is definitely a lot whiter.

I hope somebody finds this useful.

Damo

Hi. Ive got the blue vision sidelights and they are much better. Nice white light not yellowy like the oem ones. Can you post some night time pics, i'm interested in seeing how much brighter the headlights are, cheers

Ye, i have them too, really good improvement i found; and now handy at this time of year as im driving in the dark most days now.

Just fitting them was awkward and extremely frustrating.

Yeah I have got some of these, soo much easier driving at night

I can honestly say I have never had so much trouble fitting headlights *EVER*. The sidelights were a easy.

There is enough room for one hand on the drivers side of a 1.9MJET which is annoying as you need two or if you have kids - get them to do it (2 reasons for this: 1. Thier hands are small and can get behind the headlight. 2. If they break it you've got somebody to shout at.).

I will try and post some night pictures up later on tonight.

There is a definite improvement though.

Damo

when you consider you can buy bulb kits for side of the road maintenance/repairs changing the bulbs on a grande are a pain in the ass!

i like the look of the blue vision bulbs, i got some mtec ones from ebay and look similar

sidelights one with one without


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Just finished fitting my new bulbs and what a p*ss easy job. 5 mins and done. The joy of having a 1.2 lol

marty61 said:

Just finished fitting my new bulbs and what a p*ss easy job. 5 mins and done. The joy of having a 1.2 lol

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marty61 said:

Just finished fitting my new bulbs and what a p*ss easy job. 5 mins and done. The joy of having a 1.2 lol

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yep My 1.2 is p155 easy to do too you could smuggle a small Albanian family into the UK in the engine bay there is so much room


once you have the knack its easy on any bet you haven't tried doing the front fog lights yet

Andy Monty said:

bet you haven't tried doing the front fog lights yet

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Dont have them so not a prob

waiting for the first "HIDS FOR THE WIN YEAH!!!!!!" post.

everytime i try and find out what peoples opinions are on different types of bulbs (even thou i stress not to mention them) people (not naming names) come on and go "YEAH YEAH HIDS MAN HIDS!! YEAH!!!!" "What you want is some HIDS man YEAH"

NO, i DONT want HIDs, they are A:illegal B:expensive C:make no real difference.

the only reason people would get them is so that oncoming cars think they are aproaching a more expensive car than they are. lol. im not that kind of person.

JK. ..... thats one clean and shiny engine bay you got there mate, do you ever drive your car ... lol

beany_bot said:

NO, i DONT want HIDs, they are A:illegal B:expensive C:make no real difference.

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A:illegal yes in the case of the GP headlamp unit

B:expensive not really

http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.711

C:make no real difference.

trust me they do (no i haven't fitted any to my car) Im waiting on LED technology to catch up as these will p155 all over HID)

Scotty Pro Platinum said:

JK. ..... thats one clean and shiny engine bay you got there mate, do you ever drive your car ... lol

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easy with the right stuff

about 1500 miles a month! use some degreaser wipes, AG bumper care and AG rubber and vinyl care!