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Philips ballasts have been proven to be reliable over the years.
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I replaced the bulbs in my Merc E-Class with Silverstars and the difference was like night and day.
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You can find someone selling the litronics used on ebay for $800 to
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They are just plug and play, but it is my understanding that you do not get the auto adjust feature unless your car originally had Litronics
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Hi - well I went and did it. Bought a 99 996 and am already in improvement mode. Considering upgrading the lights to HID/Litronic - but am reluctant to spend $1500 to convert the entire assembly. Saw this conversion kit on eBay and its intrigued me. I've bought from Vertex before so I trust them.
Here is the link:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Porsche-Boxster-9...QQcmdZViewItem
Any opinions/advice would be appreciated.
Thanks Glenn (aka - the guy with the perma-grin!!!!)
I can't speak to this conversion specifically, but I did change my lights to the litronics, and could not be happier!
You can find someone selling the litronics used on ebay for $800 to
$1000. They are just plug and play, but it is my understanding that you do not get the auto adjust feature unless your car originally had Litronics
I bought mine to upgrade my standard lights to litronics several years ago. They are straight plug and play in the 99-01 cars. Best this I could have done for my night lighting.
I paid 1095 shipped from Brandywine through an eBay auction. I you are paying near $1K they better be brand new. Personally, even to save a few bucks I would NOT buy used litronics. Chances are they are stolen. Very easy to steal and if we keep buying them they will continue to steal them. Think about it.....who "upgrades" their litronics to standard lights? Nobody. Unless of course they want to skirt the thieves and just have a car that isn't a target.
The kit in that auction is something I would totally stay away from (heating issues are probably not tested or if done, trusted!). I would either get the OEM Litronics or just get better bulbs that illuminate better and have a truer white light.
I "upgraded" my bulbs first and then after a few months of that I decided litronics were the right way to go and pulled the trigger on a new set. $1095 shipped was hard to pass up.
I'd like to do that, but I have some nice headlight covers that I'd have to trash if I replaced the headlight units for lits.... so until they start to look scuzzy I'll have to stick with the original units and upgrade them to a "cleaner" bulb.
I'm figuring that by the time the car is ready for an upgrade I might be onto my next car.
Make sure you get
55 watt
bulbs. Some aftermarket bulbs have a blue coating so that they give out whiter light. However, the blue coating takes away some of the brightness so they compensate by increasing the wattage of the bulb to 75 watts or 80 watts. The increased wattage results in more heat
that will melt your plastic headlight lens
. Stick with Sylvania Silverstar or Philips BlueVision (both reputable OEM suppliers) and you should be fine.
If you're looking for a plug and play, I would probably use a plug+play kit from Philips or something. Philips ballasts have been proven to be reliable over the years. Just the fact that the vertex ad states that other kits use "weak" 4800K means I wouldn't buy from them. Everyone knows 4300K produces the most light...anything higher may look more purple/blue but certainly doesn't produce more light.
I'd probably just throw in Silverstars and call it a day for now.
I checked out the specs on the Silverstar and Silverstar Ultras and they sounds like they're as close to HIDs as you can get without switching the hardware. Nice idea!
I installed Silverstars today. I can't wait to see how they look in the morning on the way to work. The first impression is that they are noticably whiter, although I can't say that they're significantly brighter than the Osram bulbs that were in there. I wish I'd be able to get hold of the Silverstar Ultras... maybe next time.
Glenn, I would not recommend HID retrofit on lights with halogen reflector (as opposed to a projector). Such retrofit will usually produce bright spots and non-uniform light different than a true HID projector light. That means glare to oncoming traffic and bad light pattern for you.
You can read more detail in the following link:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...nversions.html
For whiter and brighter bulbs, you may want to try PIAA xtreme white plus. They have 4000K color, uses the same wattage and DOT approved too. I'm very happy with PIAA bulbs. They're down to $50+/ pair now that HID retrofit kits are getting cheaper and cheaper.
- Ahsai
Ahsai, what sort of lifetime have you gotten out of the bulbs?
I did some research and found that many had been having problems with them burning out quickly. That's why, all things being equal I went with the Silverstars.
I have no experience with Silverstar but I have had 2 sets of PIAA xw+ on two cars for the past 5-7yrs and they're still burning bright! The filaments show normal wear just like regular halogen bulbs.
I like them so much because they don't have a heavy blue coating to achieve the 4000K color and hence they are much brighter than other "similar" whiter bulbs e.g., Hoen, which is ONLY good for color matching.
- Ahsai
BTW, just found this review of a few brighter H7 bulbs...
http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carrevi...st_h7_50.html#
Silverstar ranks the best and Visionplus comes in second.
- Ahsai
I am pretty pleased with the Silverstars too. I replaced the bulbs in my Merc E-Class with Silverstars and the difference was like night and day. (Although the stock bulbs had been in place for several years old and probably needed replacement anyways.)
