PHILIPS - Diamond Vision H7 Halogen HID Bulbs (Pair)

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!

Update 11/21/17:Had these almost 2 years to the day. One is now burned out.About the life span I expected from these, so I'm keeping the review at 5 stars and ordered another set.---I put these in my 2012 GLI. I normally ignore the bluer halogens because they sacrifice a lot of visibility - but I believe these Phillips have a higher wattage output or something.I wanted to just try these simple bulbs, since I don't wanna do HIDs without projector housings. Anyway they are very bright, and a very nice color (they are prettymuch as expected, white with a tinge of blue)They probably aren't as good as say a 4300k bulb. But these seem to output just as much light as my factory bulbs (albeit a different color) They light up the road very well, combined with my piaa fog lights I have no visibility issues in the rain.I definitely recommend these as an easy upgrade - do NOT buy off brand or cheaper variants. Most of them make it so you can't see.

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.