Sylvania Silver Star and Silver Star Ultra Headlights

[Vert8813B]

Anybody use them? Good? Bad? I'm considering getting 2 pairs (highs and lows) but each pair is 42 bucks. Awful lot of cash to spend on headlights, but right now I can't see that well in the dark (which is like 4:40 PM now). They (the Ultras that is) claim to be 50% brighter than stock with better peripheral lighting as well. But I could get a good luck at a T-Bone by shoving my head up a Bull's ass, but wouldn't I rather take the Butcher's word?

Thanks in advance.

[Shawn]

I love them. I installed them in a friend of mines Volvo and they are great, high beams are wicked bright.

[Vert8813B]

Worth the cash though?

[Shawn]

Check online for a deal. For the money you could damn near do a HID conversion.

[Vert8813B]

No real deals on Amazon. I got down to 37 bucks a pair there.

[Vert8813B]

Eh, I went and bought the Silver Star Ultras and noticed a minimal difference. Definitely not worth 42 dollars a pair. Whiter light and more peripheral vision really.

[czarofzar]

Pics or it never happened

[Vert8813B]

lol i'll see if i can get some tomorrow.

[En-Gay-Ged]

Peripheral lighting is very important, well owrth the cost, IMO. I had them in the Tracer.

Need to run them in the Saturn when I get the headlights fixed.

[Pele]

DO NOT GET THE SILVERSTARS...

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DanielStern Wrote:It's a name game: Osram, the well-established German lampmaker, sells a line of automotive bulbs they call "Silver Star". These are Osram's top-of-the-range headlamp bulbs, equivalent to Narva RangePower+50, GE Night Hawk, Philips VisionPlus, and Tungsram Megalight Premium. They produce the maximum legal amount of light while staying within legal power consumption limits. They have colorless clear glass.

Osram bought the well-established American lampmaker Sylvania in the early 1990s, so Osram is now Sylvania's parent company. Sylvania also sells a line of automotive bulbs they call "Silver Star", but it's not the same product. The Sylvania Silver Stars have blue glass. Light output is of legal levels, but as with all blue-filtered bulbs, you do not get more light from them. The Sylvania SilverStar bulbs have a very short lifetime, because the filament is overdriven to get a legal amount of light despite the blue glass.

To get the best possible seeing performance at night, don't choose extra-white bulbs.

I've seen these SilverStars last fewer than 3 months with a lot of night driving.

In another location or previous edition, Daniel Stern also mentioned that the closest to a European spec bulb he's found USDM was the Sylvania "X-Tra Vision" in the pink and black package... It's their mid grade bulb. Still brighter than a standard Halogen, but also has very long life and it's like $10 per bulb.