Nice headlights/bulbs? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

ut_cougar · 01-24-2008, 04:27 PM

I have the standard headlights on my 02 Boxster S (Non-Litronic). I am wanting some brighter "cooler" looking lighting. Does anyone have any suggestions or input? I have seen plug and play HID kids and xenon gas bulbs, etc. I just want something that is plugn'play, something that doesn't require any difficult mods but will improve the color of the headlights (low beam) and possibly brighten them up. Maybe something that gives the HID effect, or I also saw some violet colored lights for sale online that looked really cool (they said they were xenon gas charges 12000 or something like that). Any input for the newbie? Thanks

01-24-2008, 04:59 PM

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humara · 01-24-2008, 09:10 PM

do a search for "burnt". whatever you decide on, be very careful because most of the "whiter" hid looking bulbs run higher wattage to get the brightness necessary because of the blue coating they use. you'll see its pretty common for 996/986 headlights to have a nice little brownish spot because of hot bulbs.

Kirk · 01-25-2008, 07:36 AM

I recently got litronics and didn't like the yellow halogen lights for the high beam and fog lights. Your stock light housing actually has three H7 halogen bulbs in it - low beam, high beam, and fog light. Replacing all of them with something whitter/bluer can be costly...

I bought some Sylvania Silverstars and fortunately only opened one package to try them out. I returned another un-opened package. I was grossly disappointed. The light is whitter, but only barely so compared to standard Sylvania/Osram bulbs I had. I've got the Silverstars in my fog lights now, which are a little yellow any way (yellow plastic inside housing).

"Gary in BR" sent me some blue H7 halogen bulbs that I put in as my high beams. They are much more white/blue than the Silverstars and have that "cooler" look I think you want. Unfortunately I can't tell you what brand they are as they're not marked.

They look MUCH nicer with my litronics though.

Based on my limited experience I would go for some of the blue coated bulbs, but just make sure they're rated for 55W or no more than 65W. The ones Gary sent me are rated for 55W.

Gary in BR · 02-09-2008, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Kirk

I recently got litronics and didn't like the yellow halogen lights for the high beam and fog lights. Your stock light housing actually has three H7 halogen bulbs in it - low beam, high beam, and fog light. Replacing all of them with something whitter/bluer can be costly...

I bought some Sylvania Silverstars and fortunately only opened one package to try them out. I returned another un-opened package. I was grossly disappointed. The light is whitter, but only barely so compared to standard Sylvania/Osram bulbs I had. I've got the Silverstars in my fog lights now, which are a little yellow any way (yellow plastic inside housing).

"Gary in BR" sent me some blue H7 halogen bulbs that I put in as my high beams. They are much more white/blue than the Silverstars and have that "cooler" look I think you want. Unfortunately I can't tell you what brand they are as they're not marked.

They look MUCH nicer with my litronics though.

Based on my limited experience I would go for some of the blue coated bulbs, but just make sure they're rated for 55W or no more than 65W. The ones Gary sent me are rated for 55W.

The bulbs are Hoen's
http://www.hoen-usa.com/

They are very good lights and come highly rated.

BTW,
Glad you liked them.

Gary

ut_cougar · 02-10-2008, 07:09 PM

well i looked at the Hoen site and they look like great bulbs but arent even close to 55W...the two decent models for low beam application are 70W and 80W (for the boxster's H7 bulbs) which will eventually burn the light housing and i dont want those brown spots everyone talks about.

ut_cougar · 02-04-2008, 01:00 AM

ok so i have decided to go with one of these HID coversion kits for like $100 bucks. They seem okay, no litronic, but affordable...and i plan on selling the car in a year so $100 is better than $1500 for litronics. So my question here is: do these conversion kits with the balasts, etc require ANY permanent mods? such as drilling, cutting, screwing, etc? (anything at all?) AND if they DO require any permanent mods are there any ways of getting around that? Such as instead of screwing maybe using zipties or running wires around of something instead of through it? if anyone knows a way to install them without any permanent mods please let me know. oh and this is for an 02 boxster S. thanks guys

pompous · 02-05-2008, 09:30 AM

just curious...which one u goin' with? I've been thinkin' about this for a little while now.

ut_cougar · 02-13-2008, 03:40 PM

also, has anyone seen a 65W bulb used for low beams in a boxster? and if so, any brown spots or burning lenses? IF no brown spots, does anyone know a good HID look 65W bulb, that has the look of those SPPs and HOENs?

CJ_Boxster · 02-13-2008, 03:59 PM

Sorry bud, cant use a 65watt bulb, thats too hot and will little by little burn a hole in your headlight lense... the max u can use is 55watts.

Gary in BR · 02-13-2008, 05:32 PM

I agree do not run 65w in the low beams.
You will burn lens, I have pictures to prove it.

Benny986 · 02-14-2008, 02:40 AM

I have no personal experience with hoen.

I am ont he audi forums a lot. And when I got my bulbs for that car, (fogs, high beam), there were lots of posts online. I wanted a match for the audi oem hids.

The hoens an the SPPs were both talked about in the forums, and people liked both.

There was a GB on the SPPs, so I tried them. I like them. I liked them enough to get them for the boxster too.

Check out this thread. That is how it compares to the audi hids.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100238

here are some of my pics of the SPPs... NOTE. the audi hids are not as blue as the boxster, so, the SPP bulb looks more yellow than the boxsters hid.

ohh and i also have an optic yellow bulb in the other side as a sample of what yellow looks like.

notice how its almost a perfect match.

now on the boxster, it looks more yellow...

And just a few more pictures in the series.

http://lubrify.com/porsche/lights

ut_cougar · 02-16-2008, 02:41 PM

benny, wait a sec, in the pics on the boxster, which ones are you running the SPPs on? Are those HIDs on the boxster or the 55W SPPs (normal lighting)? Im not looking for fog lights, i'm inquring about the low beam application? IF and only if those are SPPs (plain regular bulbs, not HIDs) in the bottom pic and that is your low beam lighting that's pictured then that is amazing...that really does look like HID lighting...let me know because i think you are talking about the fog lights which makes much more sense (fog lights are the smaller ones on the inside). maybe im getting a little bit confused its been a looong week.