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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 04:17 PM
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well when i ordered my SilverVision silver-coated bulbs that ignite amber from powerbulbs.com, they sent free BlueVision W5W bulbs that fit in the front parking light spot. i thought i'd give them a try, and I do like the look better.. here's a pic i just took showing the difference.



of course the standard is on the left (looking at car) and bluevision is on the right. the differnces sort of disappear to the camera when i turned on fog lights, then headlights, but are still detectable with the naked eye, but less so with the addition of more lights. the BlueVisions, however, do look nice with just the fogs on, as they are more similar in color.

here's what the BlueVisions look like in the daytime..



so the blue bulb does show up through the lens, but doesn't look too bad. in fact, those with IB or EB might like adding more subtle blues, in which case, the Osram Diadem 21W may also compliment those colors as it makes the front markers look iridescent blue..

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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 04:20 PM
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cool. i use superwhite polarg's that have a sligthly blue hue as well.
matches theHID's very well. :smile: size 192, price $8 for the pair.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2003 | 04:20 PM
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I got the philips W5W bulbs also when I ordered some Philips H7 lights from powerbulbs.com (plus free shipping ). I think they look great especially at night!
 
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Old Apr 10, 2006 | 03:27 PM
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How did you manage to get to the bulbs? I see the plug for them behind the bumper right next to the signal bulbs, but I can't get to the bulb itself - I can just remove the plug from the back???
 
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Old Apr 10, 2006 | 04:15 PM
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Ha! Never mind! I got 'em. Just took a little more muscle than I would have thought.
 
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Old Apr 13, 2006 | 08:29 PM
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Looks really nice. Only problem I have with the BlueVision W5W is the blue bulbs shows through the lens, Im a little **** and that will bug me . Ive tried diff parking lights. Tried the super white 194's ones from autolumination, way too blue. I was using the PIAA 19263 which were really good but still had a slight blue hue to it, matched the xenon's pretty good but the blue always bothered me. I was seriously considering the angel eye halos as they seemed to be the closest in matching the xenons but did not want to shell out the $100 +-.

A buddy of mine gave me the Polarg J-51 P2310w and I must say that it almost matches the Xenons perfectly (dont think theres ever going to be an exact match) They are really bright w/ no blue tint whatsoever. Only imperfection is that the base of the bulb is green so theres a little green peaking out but not that much for me to freak out . Really happy with these bulbs!!
 
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