At Phoenix AutoBulbs we always strive to ensure that we have the very latest Car Bulbs in stock, and as automotive lighting technology has rapidly advanced so has our upgrade car bulbs section.  With each new car lights product we receive we take the  manufacturer’s information and combine this with our own tests and customer feedback to ascertain how well they perform.  This enables us to give the best advice to our customers on which products will suit their individual requirements.

With the dark winter nights fast approaching one of the most commonly asked questions that we get asked in our car bulbs review is:

 ”Which of the upgrade Xenon Bulbs are the best?”

At the moment there are two xenon car bulbs that stand head and shoulders above the rest, and they are the Osram Night Breaker and the Philips Extreme Power headlight bulbs.  Both of these car bulbs emit nearly twice as much light as standard headlight bulbs, are considerably whiter than the dull yellow halogen bulbs, and can stretch your headlight beam length over 30 meters further than and ordinary bulb.

From customer reviews, our own testing and independent car bulbs reviews the performance of the Philips Extreme Power and Osram Night Breaker bulbs is extremely close, so which one of this high performance bulbs should you choose?

In our opinion the winner is easy to pick, given that their lighting  performances are so similar.  A pair of Osram Night Breaker H7 xenon bulbs, will cost you under £16 whilst a pair of H7 Philips Extreme Power  bulbs will cost you over £26 (and if you want H1 bulbs, Philips do not do them in the Extreme Power range).

So our advice is to go for the Osram Night Breaker car bulbs, and with the money you have saved you could invest in some upgrade sidelight bulbs or upgrade your main beam lights as well.

Most Drivers do not normally think about their car bulbs until the time comes to replace them because one of them has blown, and they worry that driving with faulty car lights could affect their insurance or result in them being pulled over by the Police for having defective lights.

When you do decide to invest in new bulbs for your vehicle the choice can be quite daunting, especially as there are now both upgrade and standard versions of most of the popular car bulbs used in today’s modern cars.

Whilst the bulbs designed to upgrade your car lights may seem considerably more expensive than the price quoted for a standard equivalent, it is well worth considering the more expensive upgrade, especially if you a replacing your headlight bulbs.

Old style standard headlight bulbs use the halogen gas inside them to generate a ball of light that is then projected by the reflector within your car lights outwards into a focused beam of light.  Modern upgrade headlight bulbs use xenon gas instead of halogen to produce a brighter and whiter light.

In stringent and rigorous tests when the very best xenon headlight bulbs have been compared against halogen car bulbs, the xenon bulbs produced nearly twice as much light and could project the light up to fourty meters further.

When you consider the extra stress that most drivers can experience when travelling at night, and the distance covered at high motorway speeds, the extra visibility afforded by upgrading to new car bulbs will certainly make up for the fact that xenon headlight bulbs do cost fractionally more than the standard halogen bulbs.

Whilst there are certainly a lot of xenon bulbs for sale, in our opinion the best of the current range of aftermarket car bulbs is the Osram Night Breaker range.  When you factor in their incredible performance these xenon bulbs offer and their competitive prices when compared with the opposition the certainly lead the way.