H7 headlight bulbs

cyclonebri1

spacey2012 wrote: »

The best option is to do a yearly winter service, drain the radiator, refill with new coolant and anti-freeze, get the winter tyres out of the shed and get them fitted, replace all bulbs in clusters, gone or not, with cheap bulbs, a set is around £6 or £12 for the lot they usually last 12 months and doing the set gives a year free of bulb hassle, such as changing one only for another to go.

No no no no no, you do not replace good bulbs with ones that will likely fail before the original ones would have done. :eek::eek::eek: I really don't know where you have got that from and have posted it not on a motoring site, but a money saving site. most bulbs out last the car. But mine aren't.

I also think you have been hoisted by your own petard re the black bit

cyclonebri1

jase1 wrote: »

Quelle surprise.

You know what to do next time then :rotfl:

I knew I'd catch one:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mattyprice4004

Definitely the Philips +30% H7s that are £8 a pair on eBay at the moment.

Fitted a few sets now, nice light and they last bloomin' ages.

cyclonebri1

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

Definitely the Philips +30% H7s that are £8 a pair on eBay at the moment.

Fitted a few sets now, nice light and they last bloomin' ages.

Given you have changed "a few sets", how long are they actually lasting?

When you analyse it my situation of having to change a headlight bulb every 6 month, albeit over 2 cars doesn't seem too bad, it means on average they last 2 years each, but from past experience that seems far to many especially given that my car is used little at night and both are fairly low mileage runners anyway.

And yes it does happen that certain models have appetites for certain bulbs as I'm sure others have noticed. The previous car I mentioned earlier, a VX, that didn't need a headlight bulb in the 7 years I owned it, needed the numberplate lamps replacing almost every MOT.:A