A fiver can buy you ten decent bulbs of one sort from the usual auction site, i have a shoe box full of packs of assorted car bulbs of every type and probably a dozen or more H4's, an accessory shop is the very last place i would go to buy them.

Use your loaf, and depending on where different bulbs are located vand the degree of difficulty of access, its possible to buy a pair of of quality branded long life bulbs for less that that accessory shop would charge to fit one, worth fitting those if its a hand shredding half hour operation to renew them each time.

I have developed a habit of changing bulbs in pairs, one sidelight blows if you fetch its oppo out you often find the glass is darkening and its on borrowed time, and don't forget to check orange indicator and red stop light bulbs whilst you are in the light units, they often shed paint over the years.

Or buy LED bulbs, they should last a lifetime and do not discolour, I think you can now get LEd headlight bulbs as well?

Bolt, i've tried a few LED bulbs and yes they can have their uses.

Headlights are a no no for me, genuine bulbs are designed for precise light directional output and i believe unless the light unit is designed for such leds the resulting light pattern will be all over the shop, similarly i would not want unbelievably camp blue sidelights either unless i wanted to join the reverse baseball hatted big bore exhaust crew or wanted to park for hours in secluded laybys checking out new fiends..:_)

I did use two led's on the back of my old Landcruiser, a pure red rear fog light because the rear fog lenses lose their colour over time, and one very high power reversing light led, which made up for there only being one reversing light which was of no use at all given the size of the brute.

Couldn't agree more about the one eyed monster, that turns out after all not to be a motorcycle approaching on a country B road, but proves to be a Tranny van driven flat out with, as you rightly say, the OSF light unit in blackout.

Confess i like the fact all our cars, and all the lorries i use at work, have front fog lights as well as normal headlights, in the event of sudden bulb failure you can at least use those fog lights to illuminate both sides properly till you can deal with the blown bulb, that is the one and only saving grace for DRL's too.

Edited by gordonbennet on 05/12/2016 at 19:06