PHILIPS - Diamond Vision H7 Halogen HID Bulbs (Pair)

Bought these to replace the dipped beam on my wifes 2017 Audi A3 which were old school yellow. New lights are a nice clear white, they are much clearer and brighter but not obnoxious like LED's which will have everyone flashing at you. Overall just a good quality everyday & quality of life improving bulb. Will buy again

UPDATE 2-28-2015: WE HAVE VIDEO! ;) I have replaced the iJDMToy Parking lamps after they got fried by my high beams. They didn't look all that good compared to these new replacements (ran high beams with these babies, no problems or flickering by the way): SiriusLED T10 194 White Blue Red 360 Degree High Quality LED Wedge Instrument Panel Light Bulbs Pack of 2 (White) For an HD version of this video rather than Amazon's proxy, please visit this YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEpB4Vc0oM I'm pleasantly surprised! My good buddy from work installed these bulbs for me in my 2014 C250 which came with halogens against my will. Now let's be real here for a moment: YELLOW HALOGENS WITH WHITE LED DAYTIME RUNNING LIGHTS DO NOT MATCH ESPECIALLY ON A BLACK BENZ!!! I wanted the Lighting Package but at the time it only came on the C350 which was an extra $150 a month to lease and that wasn't gonna cut it. I live in Los Angeles and most of the time, the people here are going to see one of the few and ONLY C Class' that have decent halogen headlights. Now back to these bulbs. The packaging came in a very neat fashion and it was kept safe from shipping hurdles. I ordered 2 pairs since my car's low and high beams are BOTH H7 bulbs. $90 with Prime Shipping overall, not a bad price considering Phillips' legendary quality. My parents had to replace my mom's old C240 low beams at the time in 2007 and we picked up a pair of Phillips...those things still worked even until mid-2013 when the car was finally sold off. Talk about quality! Night visibility has improved in my opinion about 40% compared to the stock bulbs. They're not HIDs or Xenons obviously! The difference is NOT night and day but something pretty close to it. High beams have been seldom used so far but people see my presence more often in the morning and night hours especially when backing out of their driveways in blind view. These do not cause blindness, AGAIN NOT HIDs. Cops don't give me problems for these bulbs unless I run the highs like some of the pathetic drivers here in Hollywood. I've sent the link to these to my cousin and he is also concerned since it says "HID" and he is afraid it will melt the housing on his F30 3 series (unfortunately with Halogens on an M-Sport trim, SERIOUSLY BMW ITS UGLY!) I'll clear this up once more: THEY ARE NOT HID XENON BULBS! NOT HID, NOT XENON, DOES NOT REQUIRE AN IGNITING BOX, NO ADDITIONAL HARDWARE NECESSARY! JUST PLUG AND PLAY! I'm dead serious these are bulb replacements and some people are foolish as to think otherwise only because of the color... GAHHH!! These do not have that rancid ricer blue/purple hue to them. They are as white as can be! The extremely subtle blueness comes from the LED Parking Lights which I have purchased from iJDMTOY here. I am having second thoughts of getting an actual white color LED but it does look nice in the sense that the grouch is going to sleep when I step out of the car and its dimming its eyes. :P I have straight piped this car from the primary catalytic converter down so you'll understand if you run into me in SoCal. ;) No errors on my dash from installing these, they simply work. Heat is not different from the stock bulbs. If you look through the housing while the engine is off, you'll see a bit of the blue reflection from the bulb's glass. Adds a uniqueness to it in my opinion but it isn't sticking out like a sore thumb either. The high beam positioning shows it in its glory but it isn't reflecting across the housing. From a distance it looks no different from stock. I like the look of the C-Class headlights because it makes its presence known even with halogens! I feel sorry for the BMW F3x people forced to halogens because they're ugly PERIOD. Granted I've seen a dude running these EXACT same bulbs on a Blacked out F30 328i, BMW's legendary angel eyes are something else! To wrap things up and to give you guys a nice visual, I've attached a couple pictures of my car with these bulbs turned on. That includes the high beams! I've not registered at MBWorld.org or the other Mercedes Benz forums but I'm sure anyone who has my misfortune of halogens would vouch for this product as well. Those HID kits are not something I necessarily would toy with because of cost and excess labor and other issues; I've got no time for a bulb going out or a blinding beam ticket! This really adds a nice kick to the looks of the car as well. Buy if you want some better visibility, replacing a bulb, looking to spruce up your car, or if you're looking to help a buddy. You won't regret this purchase!

I’ve had these lights for nearly a year now, and have run them as regulars on my daily driver VW (shhh don’t tell). They’re very eye appealing lights for the people looking at your car, as it’s a soft bluish white light, almost like a smart LED bulbs color, and has a distinctive outline and color. They are, however, not eye appealing for the driver, because you can’t see nearly as much on the road with these as you can with a standard bulb. That being said, I’m only deducting half a point for that, because they’re not meant to be used on the road anyways....but that doesn’t mean they can’t be. Weird little thing: these lights may not be very good in normal driving settings (especially right around sundown), but they are however, really good in heavy rain or medium fog, because they hardly reflect off the precipitation. I haven’t yet tried them in snow (no idea how, I’m from Vermont), but I imagine they’d do good in that too! This most likely stems from the clearness of the lights, which is very high. Lastly, I saw a lot of reviews claiming they have short lives and don’t last more than a couple of months...where? I’ve run them every single day as DRLs on my car, and they still work perfectly fine, I just dread replacing them because that was a pain, but it may have just been the design of my car that made it so difficult, so only -0.5 for that too. Overall, good value, and will add a very soft LED look to your cars lights, but do not expect anywhere near the brightness of LEDs with these lights.

Purchased these to replace the aging low beam bulbs in my 2011 328i, was hoping they’d be brighter and more white. First pictures are after, second set are before. I was pleasantly surprised after installation and noticed a big difference in color, but no increase in brightness. Very white color, not sure visibility is better though. Highly recommend these to anyone looking for a more white color, and maybe slightly more brightness depending what you have now. Hopefully they last as long as my old bulbs, which had been in the car for 4-5 years minimum.

Got the bulbs yesterday. Made in Germany. Installed in a minute. Fit VW Tiguan like factory bulbs. I am not a big fan of blue color BUT! I disrespect jerks who blind upcoming cars instead of seeing an eye doctor. Philips diamond bulbs give icy white light, very soft yet strong. If I could, I would mandate them! And most importantly! Today driving in Boston was no fun because of the dense fog with minimal visibility. Literally, a truck would pop out of nowhere in 10 feet from you. So... these bulbs provided supreme visibility compared to bright bulbs that some of the reviewers were unhappy about comparing them to. I felt sorry for those cars! They were driving in the milk created by themselves. I highly recommend Philips diamond bulbs to all! They seem faint at first sight but don't let it alter your impression. Move onto next generation product and show some respect to people who share the road with you. These bulbs give sufficient light for driving and last much longer than Sylvania! Just make sure you don't touch the bulb during installation!

I purchased these bulbs summer of 2015 for my 2015 GLK350 Mercedes Benz to replace the stock Philips H7 55W yellow bulb that Benz put in the cheapest Reflector Bowls I’ve seen since my Dodge Neon days. For a $55,000 vehicle Mercedes Benz really went budget on head lamps. My experience is ONLY with the reflector bowl style headlamps where the bulb sits in a silver bowl in plain view to the eye when looking at the headlamps (like the 2012 C300 Mercedes Benz in the gallery pictures) . If you have projector style housing headlamps where the bulb sits hidden inside a lens-capped tube then your experiences may be different than mine. But this review is only based on my experience with using diamond white halogen bulbs in a reflector bowl style headlamp The Diamond Whites look great on the car BUT did not perform better than the stock piss yellow bulbs. In general people should ONLY get these Diamond Whites to make their car look good on the road. Do not get them if you want to improve night time visibility! Although Diamond Whites are not worse than the stock piss yellow halogens in a reflector bowl they certainly are not better in any regards to seeing further or seeing more road details at night time or in rain/snow/fog. That said Diamond Whites would work better as Fog lamps or some sort of secondary lighting on a car with already brighter LED/HID Xenons low beam headlamps. However if you are getting these for your main low beam head lamps don’t expect the same brightness you would get with a decent 3700K yellow halogen bulb. The trade off is unlike HID Xenons the higher and whiter you go with Halogen bulbs the dimmer the output gets. So the 3700K – 4000K range would be the halogen sweet spot that balances bright output with butter-yellow whiteness. At the 5000K, that the Diamond Whites give, you will get that most-coveted pure white appearance but sadly you also get lower brightness than you would with a 3700K bulb. Something about the hard yellow color of halogen sourced light that reflects better & brighter than a softer white colored light emanating from the same quality halogen bulb. Another ugly trade off is bulb longevity. These Diamond Whites do not last longer than the lower 3000K to 3700K factory halogens. At first I thought the automakers were using better quality brand bulbs but I realized after some research it seems to be the whiter you go the less life a halogen will give you. Which is why you will notice Philips put shorter lifespans (up to 50% shorter) on their whitest halogens compared to their yellow halogens below the 4000K spectrum. My set of Diamond Whites lasted from mid-July 2015 to the very night of Christmas Eve 2015. That was during a 6 month period with Monday to Friday daily 30-40 minute-each way commute in the early morning (6am) and late evenings (6pm) with the vehicle's automatic headlamps having the bulbs on during that time. The passenger bulb blew first and I just took them both out and put back in the original piss-yellow factory bulbs. . At the end of the day there is a clear limit to the physics of what halogens can do which is why LED bulbs (with their heatsink fans) can literally replace your standard H7 55W halogen inside most non-modified factory headlamps. LED bulbs are varied, widely available, cheap, longer lasting and direct plug-and-play replacements for any halogen bulb. As long as you get a quality LED from a good brand and install it correctly you can literally have HID Xenons performance and looks for much cheaper in minutes of DIY time. So yeah my recommendation is to only get these for fog lamps or even high beams or secondary lamps-if your vehicle is like one of those jeep wrangler that have 5 low beam headlamps. They look good but they won’t improve upon the performance of the stock piss-yellow halogens in a reflector bowl.

I think it's important for everyone to know that nothing will ever beat HIDs. Not even LEDs. LEDs are popping up everywhere but LEDs do not, and will not, have the projection power of a 55W HID kit. That said. These bulbs are good. I got these as my 228i has reflector style headlights and wanted a bulb that would be brighter, whiter, and not blind everyone on the road. The tone of white is perfect and does not have a blue hue, despite the bulb itself being blue. Longevity, we will have to wait and tell as I do much night time driving so we'll see until they burn out. While I had a shop install them while it was already being worked on, I took a start off because H7 bulbs are always a pain to install as more manufacturers use dumb metal retaining clips to hold them in place. OVerall, good brightness, tone, and do the job very well. Good bang for buck.

I did a LOT of research online to find out more about bulbs. There are so many to choose from and also the fact that there are cheap imitations made in China. I hope that I got the right product but only time will tell. Received the product via USPS as promised and couldnt wait to install them. I knew that changing the bulbs on Mercedes are really difficult and have some experience in doing this but still again did my research on DIY and various postings. To my surprise, the install went reasonably well and they are now working on my E350. The light is definitely whiter and has that HID look. Still have not driven it out in darkness yet but did come home during dusk where the lights was triggered. I still have the parking lights which are OEM and with the yellowish tint. Will look into changing these out soon. In closing, this is a good product but will need to wait and see how long it lasts.

Made in Poland. Haven’t installed them yet, but will post an update once I do. 55W 12V H7 bulbs. 400 hours. 5000K. White light. Update: The light is bright white, matches my xenon lights Good quality. I would say it's about 5000K temperature. Not super bright, but it does the job for a dog light, and an aesthetic look.

I fitted these Diamond Vision H7 globes to replace the factory fitted globes. The difference it has made to night driving visibility is brilliant.

Mycket bättre ljus än mina gamla halogen. Vänster är vanlig halogen, höger är diamond vision.

Bon produit, la lumière est vraiment plus blanche par rapport à une ampoule H7 normale

Le ho provate di tutti i tipi, e posso dire che finalmente queste Diamond Vision sono quello che cercavo. Una vera luce bianca tendente leggermente all’azzurrino, una vera resa estetica che si avvicina tantissimo allo xenon o led (pur montando una semplice H7 e non i più costosi e complessi kit a led). Lo dimostra il fatto che alcuni amici mi hanno chiesto se avessi installato un kit a led, queste lampadine sono veramente belle e funzionali. Forse schiarendo la luce, ammetto di aver perso leggermente un poco di luminosità ma non ci sono problemi per questo. La vera novità è la lampadina completamente rivestita di blu, che dona un effetto di luce bianco (le varia extreme vision, white vision ultra ecc ecc che ho provato sono sempre e comunque tendenti al giallo). Vi segnalo che tramite il mio meccanico, ho provato a cercarle dal rappresentante (prima di acquistarle qui) ma per il mercato italiano non era possibile acquistarle. Consigliatissime!!!!