i got yellow fogs and planning to match them with the headlights by getting the yellow H4 bulbs. does anyone of you have tried or currently having yellow bulbs for headlights? are they legal and how good is the light comparing to white or halogen bulbs?

 

legal ? probly not but depends where, why would u wanna strain ur eyes at night ?

 

i've seen a couple of ricers in chicago with yellow headlights. I dont know if they are legal or not. try it and see if you get pulled over.

 

not legal....but u will see a lot better in the rain and snow.

 

in CA its legal, headlights are allowed to be in the yellow to white spectrum according to the CA vehicle code

 

so we consider this a rice mod? actually the nissan dealer i went to today got the yellow bulb on display along with purple, white, and blue bulbs. he said whatever dealer sells is always legal. so i am just making sure before i run into trouble.

 

this is what i wanted to hear. i also thought that it has to be legal because dealer will not carry yellow headlight bulbs if they were not legal at all. but now the question is (are they rice looking)? by the way my car will be noticed from far away if i drive with yellow headlights.

 

I live in the Pacific NW where it is pretty much constantly crappy weather, and I have gone thru my fair share of yellow headlight/foglight fads.

+1 for the yellow fogs, I have 3500K HID kit in my last car's fogs and it LOOKED awesome, but I only went for looks. I tried putting those 3500K HID's in the headlights (replacing the 5000K HIDs that were usually in there) and the lighting output was reduced considerably.

Basically, any color on a bulb will reduce it's lumens output. FACT. AND, colored bulbs don't improve your vision to the same extent in certain conditions as they produce less light overall. Yeah, yellow may glare less, but I never noticed that with my 3500K's because my 5000K's never really glared in the fog either. I just noticed reduced light output.

Yellows look good in fogs but reduce visibilty too much and look rice in the headlights.

 

and one more thing do you know in which states they are not legal and in which they are?

 

i am currently using silverstar's non-color for headlights but i am not truly setisfied with the light output. i may later go for HID's but in a meantime i wanna try something different and outstanding so any suggestion on which brand to use? what about PIAA>

 

Seems you have a Gen 5. I am running 5000K HID's in a Gen 4.

I would suggest just buying higher output XtraVision bulbs at your auto store. I saw a article on headlight bulbs with Nokya Blues, Cool Blues, Silverstars, Regular Halogen, Xtravision and HIR's (a very special high output bulb, not HID) and the HIR's had best output but are not easy to find a reseller. The XtraVisions were the best off the shelf, regular halogens next, Silverstars were not so good as you would expect and of course the bluer bulbs just blew.

 

the one i saw at dealer is hallo or halla i am not sure i forgot the brand name but its 7500k output and dealer said its safe and comes with 1 year warranty no melting harness issue or anything.

 

yellow bulbs are not legal and look horrible. Keep them in the fogs if you really want them.

 

Yeah I don't think yellow with yellow goes well, your Silverstars probably will look better with your yellow fogs.

 

7500K is the color of the bulb, which is blue-purple. This color won't put out much light compared to Xtravision, Silverstars or even stock halogens.

Yeah the parts counter wants to sell these to you because they are cheaply made chinese bulbs that are colorful and give the dealer a high profit margin because they are CHEAP.

Besides reducing your visibility at night, other drivers really don't get impressed by colored headlights on your car, we just ignore them. You may like the look of colored headlights, but don't legitimize the purchase by saying certain colors improve your vision. Colored halogen bulbs are only for looks, they perform terribly.

 

silverstars are not non-color if you look at the bulb its tinted blue. it just doesn't really show up as blue. And from personal experence read the watts on them and get it in writing the promise no melting of harness because if they are 100w ones they will melt it. i've also seen stock watts 45/55 or w/e to melt some harnesses as well.

its true the bulbs are extremely cheap, like $2-3 if they buy bulk of 50 pairs or so. And they turn around and sell for 20$ a pair VS OEM 15$ a bulb. kinda makes ppl want to save money but in return they aren't going to see much.

 

IMHO i had yellow nokya headlights for aobout 2 years.....i loved it its great at night and during the foggy and rainy season...the clarity was great I think compared to other colored bulb.

just make sure that you get quality bulbs!

 

i say since your gonna get HIDs down the line anyway, just either get HIDs now or start saving up for them. their definitely worth the money and they last soooooo much longer than halogen bulbs. trust...