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Blue Headlamps?



  RenaultSport clio 172 mk2
You'all are mixing up two things. Or maybe even three.

Some cars have projector-type low beams. If you look at the headlight from the front you see a lense rather than a reflector with a globe in the middle of it. Projector-type headlights cut glare. They have the side effect that the lense can cause a rainbow effect at the edge of the beam. So right on the upper edge of the low beam you see blue.

Then there's the type of globe in it. There were old-style filament globes which these days look yellowish like sunlight. Then there were halogen globes with quartz envelopes which were much whiter in the light they put out because they are able to run the filament at a higher (ie, bluer) temperature. Some of these are coloured blue for no other reason than to show off that they are halogen bulbs. Some of these have "xenon" on the packaging, indicating use of xenon as the gas in the envelope. But they are still filament-style bulbs. The best and most efficient bulbs are high intensity discharge (HID) bulbs where the light isn't being generated by heating up a filament but by a high voltage discharging through an halogen gas.

If its a projector-type lamp it has a HID bulb. Look at the front of the light and you see the lense instead of a reflector and bulb. The beam is bluish, with a rainblow at the upper edge of the beam.

If its a reflector type lamp it would only have a HID bulb in it if it has been fitted by the owner. No manufacturer I know of puts HID globes in reflector-type headlamps as standard. So that's unlikely but possible. If it has a blue coloured beam it may simply have a blue-tinted halogen globe in it.
 
  Clio MK3 1.6 Dynamique
I can safely say it has definately got a shade of blue in it, when looking at the light(s) it looks like a circluler magnifying glass... :) however when they are on... unless you bend down paralell to the lights, you cant see much just a white circle, and when you do.. you get blinded :( hehe, but in no way could I see blue, or any other color from the lights. Its just simply viewable from a distance on a reflection.
 
  Abarth Grande Punto
most cars these days have the round lenses that appear like xenons it just dispurses the light better. My Hyundai coupe and my dads vw passatt both have the lenses but no xenons.
 
Ordered. £40 squids for 'Xenon' HID dipped, HID main, and silvervision indicators. I already have blue sidelight bulbs to try out as they came free with my flat blade wipers.

Thread Hijack alert :D
 

Gaz_

ClioSport Club Member
  Extreme mode
lol, what fitment are they, as i need to order some for the cup (yours being a 182 cup)
 

Gaz_

ClioSport Club Member
  Extreme mode
cheers! have the indicators already

nice upgrade for winter methinks
 

lemonnobby

ClioSport Club Member
xenons must be fitted with headlight washers, and projecter lights like mk1 172 etc do have a bit of blue in the light due to the globe and they have headlightadjustment most do now except basic models
 
FFS. My hands are torn to shreds and my fingers and arms are 75% covered in 1st degree burns. The passenger side was tricky enough, but the drivers side was like keyhole surgery. What r****d decided to route the AC pipes in there?

On the plus side I'm now fully Xenoned up, including main beam, and sparkly blue side lights. Oh and of course the silvervisions which make a nice difference to the look of the lamps. I just need to wait for it to get dark now before I can see how they illuminate the road ahead.
 
  Polo + Micra
lol the use of HID is wrong to desribe any lamp that has a filament

HID stands for High Intensety Discharge

and xenon is an inert gas that is used in Metal Hallide lamps(hid) and can be partly used in tugsten filament lamps instead of just halogen
 
Dink said:
lol the use of HID is wrong to desribe any lamp that has a filament

HID stands for High Intensety Discharge

and xenon is an inert gas that is used in Metal Hallide lamps(hid) and can be partly used in tugsten filament lamps instead of just halogen

Fair play. I don't know the details. I do know that these bulbs seem very white/blue and cost peanuts. Surely a good upgrade for a 172Cup/182Cup? I have the battle scars to prove it FFS :evil:
 
Left side is Xenon, Right side is standard Renault bulb through a projector type lamp unit

hids003.jpg


Xenon is the way forward:)
 


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