Car Tips – How to choose the right car Headlights and Light Bulbs

Car headlights were important parts from a car. It function as your eyes guide when you driving at night and become a signs for other vehicles when you going to past them. What would it be if your headlight doesn’t function as it should be and having the lights too fades? Well, we were here to give you some tips to choose the right lights for your headlights.

Choose the right light bulbs watt power

Choose the bulbs with the same power as the car manufacture bulbs you use before. This step is to make sure your headlamp (especially the plastic materials) would be in good conditions after you replace the bulbs. Bigger power on the bulbs could make the temperatures in the headlamp raise, the often signs is the colors were getting yellowish than before with a hotter headlamp.

Bigger power car light bulbs demand bigger wires as the electricity distributions. If you use ordinary wires then the bigger possibility you would have overheat wires and short circuits problem.

Choose Neutral colors

You would find aftermarket car light bubs with yellow, white or blue color. You could see from the label attach to the bulbs, specs and Kelvin number on it. Higher the Kelvin number means the light bulbs result more white-bluish lights.

The problem is you wouldn’t able to see clearly when the weather rains if you use this kind of car light bulbs. You would be lucky to use yellowish light bulbs type because you aren’t only could see in the rains but you were also could see through the fogs. The disadvantage of the yellowish lights is you will annoyed another driver in front of you when you use it in a normal weather.

To get the best lights result in rain, fogs or any weather you could pick car light bulbs with 4000 – 5000 Kelvin range number on the specs.

Watch the car electricity grounds (grounding)

 

Changing your headlamp to get better lights with bigger power light bulbs are true facts. But it wouldn’t be optimum because the grounding (negative electricity to the bulbs) especially if the wires were more than 5 years old. It would be suggested to replace the wires with the new one that already have the relay on the package.

Watch the rubber cover on the headlamp

The rubber cover must wrap the headlamp completely to make sure there is no water and dirt’s could get inside the headlamp. The sign when you should replace the headlamp rubber cover is when you getting dirt’s and dews from the inside of your headlamp.

If you keep it you would get fungus and make your headlamp dirtier and harder to clean.

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