Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:If you can change them yourself, spend a fiver and do it. Put the old ones in the glovebox or somewhere as spares.
Never changed a bulb before, but how hard can it be?
Seems like there's ample room in the engine bay behind the headlights, and shouldn't be that hard to do!
I can have a go at following the instructions in the handbook, but peculiarly, the handbook seems to be for the wrong car! I went out to sort out the fuses and tried to locate the fusebox where the book told me it should be.
It was in a totally different place! Manual said it'd be behind the edging panel on the dashboard on the passenger side.
Actual location was down in the driver's footwell, and mounted such that you could only see the fuses if you were lying on your back on the floor of the footwell... No wonder people just pay a mechanic to sort everything out these days
Silk wrote:My previous and current car both have LEDs. The one previous to that Xenons. I would never buy another car with "normal" bulbs. It's like driving in candle-light by comparison. It's just incredibly annoying that you have to order a higher spec just to get the option. They should be standard on all cars IMO.
Well Xenons or LED lights were NOT an option on the Citigo when I got it, and still aren't an option. Pretty much all the city cars you see have normal halogen headlights or projector headlights, but no Xenons or LEDs. If they were, I'd happily fork out for them, but alas, they are not. I'll just have to drive around with my candle-lights
angus wrote:Um, didn't you complain on another thread about being dazzled? and you're looking and getting brighter bulbs?
But as Mike said, the brighter bulbs don't last as long, so get good quality, "normal" bulbs and if you can, replace both together. And save up for a car with Xenons - much brighter - haven't tried LEDs for headlights yet, but gradually changing the lights at home and school to LED, so it makes sense.
I did see H4 LEDs the other day, anyone tried replacing halogen bulbs with LED?
The bulbs on my car are...adequate at best. The headlights also came from the factory set suspiciously low, and I've never been bothered enough to figure out how to re-adjust them. Purchasing some brighter bulbs would also help me see more of the road ahead while being dazzled by the super mega bright floodlights fitted to the front of some cars. I have nothing against the LED ones, as they seem to be very good at controlling the beam pattern, but Xenons are awful for dazzling others. My issue isn't really with the brightness of opposing headlights actually, it's more to do with the poorly controlled beam patterns.
I would stay away from aftermarket LED bulbs tbh, just because the headlight reflector unit was designed around a filament being in a specific location, and you can't guarantee the LED bulb will produce light in the same place, and thus might have issues with wayward beam spread etc.