Anyone point me in the right direction for brighter head lights?

 

Sylvania makes a brighter halogen bulb that looks pretty good. It's a bright white instead of the regular halogen yellow.

 

The ZXE's by Sylvania are very good, PIAA makes some Extreme White bulbs, and I think you can also find some Phillips bulbs that are close to the ZXE's.

I have the ZXE's in my 98 D1 and they're very white vs blue or yellow looking.

I've also gone crazy with Sylvania's LED Zevo bulbs for my D1/D2. I've replaced the brake lights, rear fog lights, reverse lights, and parking lights with 194/1156R/1156 6K White on the D2 and 1156R/1157R/1156 6K White on the D2. The LED in the third brake light I'm really happy with as the incandescent bulb didn't last long with opening/slamming the rear door, and the LED should last much much longer and take the abuse better. The light output is much much better and I shouldn't have to worry about housings melting, or bulbs going out for a long time.

At first I was going to use the 1156 6K bulbs in the rear fogs & brake lights but they ended up looking pinkish, so I placed those bulbs in the reverse lights, and then used the 1156R and it's a perfect setup.

 

Wow awesome information. I appreciate that man. I'll try those out for the headlights.

 

No problem, sometimes AutoZone, or Advance Auto Parts will have the ZXE's on sale as well.

 

I've got torchstar led bulbs in my d1 and my odyssey. Love em. White light with the same focus as halogens

 

I read you post yesterday AM and had a bulb go out in the PM. Went to A Zone and got the Sylvania halogen. They are on sale right now, $10.00 off. I looked at the ZXE's but went with the ultra halogen just on cost.

 

The Sylvania ZXE's just looks bright, they're not.

The Silverstar Ultra is a brighter bulb, but you pay for that extra brightness with a vastly reduced life span (they only last a few months), never the price premium ($60 for a pack of two dual filament bulbs).

Now, all that said, I notice that you have a facelifted Disco, with the plastic headlamp assemblies.

Tell us, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being milk, and 10 being clear gin, what condition are your headlight lenses in?

If it's anything other than 9 or 10, polishing your lenses will be step 1.

 

Yep, didn't even think about polishing the lenses. A wet sand with 600 then 1000 grit, followed by 2-3 coats of clear coat. If they're foggy at all then that will help immensely.

 

I've ran PIAA's Silverstars, Silverstar ultra's, Phillips Vision, and Hella bulbs, and the ZXE's along with the PIAA Extreme White's are the only ones that have a white output vs somewhat yellow or blue.

Since he has the 03/04 style lights certainly a good cleaning will help, and when I had an 03/04 I had regular bulbs in the low and extreme white PIAA's in the high. Made for a good combo.