Had my MOT last week, so had popped my standard sidelight bulbs back in just to be on the safe side. Usually I have a set of MTEC 501s fitted, which to be honest, I've never really been that impressed with in terms of their brightness.
Have no interest in ending up with issues with strobing LEDs, so had a look about to see what other options I had by way of "conventional" bulbs. After a bit of "umming and aahhing" I decided to take a punt on a pair of Philips Blue Vision bulbs.
Got around to fitting them this evening, and popped in one MTEC 501 and one Blue Vision bulb for a comparison. Driver's side is the MTEC 501, passenger side is the Blue Vision:
Im sure you will can see that it's instantly obvious that the Blue Vision bulb is far far brighter, so that's a winner as far as I am concerned.
The next pic shows the dipped beam on as well, which are Osram Nightbreakers. The colour of the Blue Vision sidelights pretty much matches up with those perfectly. (The MTEC 501s have a definite bluey white tinge to them in comparison, hard to tell from the pic I know):
Overall, I'm pleased with the new Blue Vison bulbs. Just thought I'd share in case anybody else thinks their MTEC 501s are rubbish and fancies something a bit brighter but doesn't want LEDs.![]()
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