Osram is one of the top companies for car headlight products. Their products are used as standard options at several of the top car manufacturers. There are more options than just the standard range, which includes a 12 volt headlamp bulb. Drivers who want to increase the light or style of their headlights can choose from Osram’s upgrade products.
Currently there are three types of upgrade headlight bulbs available called Osram Cool Blue, Osram Silver Star and Osram Night Breaker. All of these upgrade bulbs are completely road legal and come with the European testing standards E1 mark, and because they are designed to replace your standard headlight bulbs they will fit into your existing headlight bulb holders and therefore do not need any special tools to fit them or modifications.
Before deciding on either the Osram Silverstar, Osram Cool Blue or Osram Nightbreaker bulbs, you will need to find out which type of headlight bulbs you already have fitted in your vehicle. Normally you can find this information listed in the owners manual, although if you type Car Bulbs Finders into Google there are now a lot of good online automotive bulb retailers that have an interactive car bulbs guide built into the site.
The Osram Cool Blue series are designed for drivers who want to stand out from the crowd and give their headlights a really distinctive night time look. The Cool Blue bulbs have blue filtered glass, which emits a blue tinted light that is very similar to high intensity discharge xenon bulbs.
With the Osram Cool Blue you will need to understand the ECE rules. There are limits to the amount of blue tint you can have on a headlight bulb. Osram ensures that their Cool Blue is within that limit. In fact it is the darkest street legal light you can have for your car.
The Osram Silverstar bulbs are tailored to improve a drivers night time visibility, and is a considerable improvement over the standard halogen headlight bulbs. Crucially the Osram Silverstar is designed to produced 50% more light onto the road, especially in the 50 to 75 meter range therefore enabling a driver to react earlier to hazards, road signs and potential obstacles.
The flagship of the Osram upgrade headlight bulbs range is the Osram Night Breaker series, which uses pressurised xenon gas, instead of halogen, and a re-engineered filament. The results is an award winning headlight bulb that produces 90% more light, projects 35 meters further into the darkness and is 10% whiter.
Keen motorists who want the best sight and performance from their headlights should make the choice of the Osram Night Breaker.
By choosing the upgraded lights like Osram Cool Blue, Silver Star, or Night Breaker you will have better night driving safety and lights that fit your needs.