'05 Corolla XRS bulbs

'05 Corolla XRS bulbs

Anyone know what size bulb the '05 Corolla XRS has in the headlights? My car is on its way to me and I haven't been able to check. There is a guy on ebay that I order headlights through that I want to get a set from and I want to get that process started so I can put the bulbs in as soon as possible. In fact, here is what I've posted about him on other forums:

9006 low beam
9005 high beam

That works too I guess. I've got some 9006 Silverstars in my garage that I took out of my wife's Accord before I sold it.

Have any of you ever done the 9005 conversion? Basically you just melt a couple guides out of the plug on a 9005 bulb and then it plugs right into the low beams. You get more light without paying extra for bulbs. I'm not sure how it would work on reflector housings, but on projectors it works great. I had a pair of 9005 Sylvania Cool Blue bulbs in there for almost three years before I had to get another set.

Getting 9005s in the low beams won't yield you that much more light. Aftermarket bulbs colored bulbs will yield you even less life than the stock halogen bulbs. If you want more output, you should invest in a true HID kit or retrofit.

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See the difference? (It's DOT.'s car.)

I'm not sure that HIDs are a good idea in reflector housings. I'm very familiar with lighting and the benefits of HIDs and I have put them in multiple cars in the past, but putting them in reflector housings that aren't made for them is just going to throw glare all over the place and blind oncoming drivers.

I'm not interested in life. I'm interested in light. I've been driving for a long time and have used a lot of different aftermarket lighting solutions. I'm not seeing shortened life when I'm using high quality bulbs. I'd rather have better lights that I have to replace every three or four years than crappy ones that I'm disappointed in for five years.

so you think these would be as good as HID's?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TOYO...08945QQtcZphoto

There are no bulbs that can match a true HID system. Any colored bulb will emit less light than your stock halogen. I mean think about it. The color film covering the bulb is a filter filtering out the different energy levels to create that color look. A stock halogen has no coating to filter out light, therefore it creates more output. The only halogen I have seen with better output than stock is the Sylvania Silverstars. Nothing else. HIDs will work fine in a parabolic reflective housing if you have the correct light shielding. This will give the HID light the proper cutoff and eliminate upward glare. Casper shields are examples of shields you can add to kits that don't include their own shields. However they only fit H4 applications. http://www.casperselectronics.com/M...6&Category_Code
I have a sharp cutoff that keeps my output bright and yet doesn't blind on coming traffic.

im trying to see if i can get just the bulbs that resemble as close as they can to HID's, i know they would never look the same, but i was just wondering

This IS his car. 9006 50W HID kit.

oh ok thats why i directed my q to him cause u said it was his car. how much and what brand name?

I know that HIDs produce better light. Like I said, I've had them on multiple cars in the past. I'm going the bulb route for now since I don't want to mess with putting HIDs in and I really don't do that much night driving. I've got a whopping two minute commute back and forth to work and I'm not spending $300 or more for lights that are only going to be used for maybe an hour a year. Not worth it. So bulbs it is. I've got a pair of 9006 Silverstars that I can use until I get the ones from my ebay guy. I've had them both in my Pilot and there is zero difference in light output. When I get the 9006 bulbs from ebay I'll compare them to the Silverstars for you to show the similarity. There is no point in spending four times as much for bulbs that look exactly the same.

As far as the coating goes, that is BS. The coating isn't hurting the light output and making it worse than stock halogens. I could barely see the road with stock halogens. As soon as I put better bulbs in it made a massive difference. So you can't knock the bulb just because it has to tint the light that the bulb makes so that it isn't yellow. The light output of the ebay bulbs I posted is bright white and faaaaaaaaaar better than stock. Sure HIDs would be better, but these cost less and it is still an upgrade. Not everybody needs HIDs to see the road.

how bright are the ones you have?
what do you guys think bout these ones?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Xeno...sspagenameZWDVW

I forgot to mention using different gas in the bulbs. Of course stock halogen bulbs will be worse than ricer bulbs charged with xenon gas. However, if you have a stock halogen charged with xenon gas compared to one with a tint, then of course the stock one would be brighter. That's also the same concept of HID lighting. I don't see any tint on HID filaments because there is no need to. Tints are to make the light look a certain color. And it does reduce output. For example, take a flashlight and shine it at the wall. Then use some colored clear saran wrap(maybe red or blue), cover the flashlight and shine it at the wall again. There is a huge difference in output. If you try shining them both at far distances, you will see that the uncovered light will go much farther.

Where to you guys live? If it rains alot, NEVER get white xenon or halogen charged bulb. You'll regret buying them.

White bulbs suck during heavy down pour. You'll only see the rain droplets right infront of you.

I live in a desert state and rain isn't really something we deal with.

You can't really compare the light output of a incandescent bulb with that of a xenon gas filled bulb. There is no comparison to the light output. And you know, it seems some people get hung up on the color of the bulb and think that it is a big deal on light output, but in reality it really isn't making any difference on the road. It might be tinting the color to be more white, but when the headlight is on you can't tell that the bulb is tinted blue at all. It's the light output that should be judged and not the color of the bulb itself.