Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior New lighting question

Im gonna buy some new low beams and fogs. I want A white low beam and a yellow fog. What brands are gonna give me the brightest lights. I dont want to convert to an hid. The three big brands seem to be piaa, nokya and mtec.

piaa

PIAA are the brightest, Nokya's have a great color though

Ok whats the second brightest cause piaas seem to be really expensive

i got my nokya's from the ecelica store yesterday..awesome color!

why would you not get HIDs?? PIAAs, MTECHs, NOKYAs all burn out fast and begin to look bad after a few months. but hey...whatever works

if you it to look white, then get MTEC for your lows
as for fogs, piaa yellow is nice
but keep in mind, yellow fogs are never bright unless they are full replacements

what do you mean "full replacements " ??

i mean like...new fogs, the entire housing you know?
they would be bright, but yellow never covers a lot of road

ahh okay gotcha i may have to invest in a new fog assembly then if my hid fog idea doesn't go as planned

is there a such thing as hid fogs?

nope but i'm going to try it it's been lagging..

going to put 6000k hid bulbs into the stock celica housing along with a lexus style yellow glass (like is300) insert so it'll shine yellow..

all this hoping they'll be no glare I had to bore out the h3 size on the stock housing.. now i need to align the focal point of the hid bulb like how the h3 was

wow that is nutz...you are going to blind people when your low beams are on with the fogs

I hope not hopefully the stock design will be able to hold the light output of hid's.. if not ehh time for a new fog housing

yea if all else fails, get some PIAA's in there
they will def be brighter than just putting in a PIAA bulb into stock housing

yeah the yellow ion piaa bulb works nice over stock

but yeah if all else fails i'll get some piaa fog assembly


here's the bored out fog projector

crazygonuts
good luck!!

WHAT ABOUR FOR TRD FOG HOUSING?

oo yeah TRD Fog housing though it costs a lot

but does put out yellow and may take months to be shipped..

KaRacing might have it in stock

BUT IS IT WORTH IT? Someone got some knockoff ones from walmart or something for like $30. I want something functional. But then again if it gets chipped or cracked?

i dont understand why everybody says that the mtechs burn out fast becuase i have had mine for a couple months now and the are still working perfectly

key words "couple of months"

I think a lot of the time people say they burn out in about six months. If you compare that to stock, that is horrible. My stock are still going and I am driving a 2000 gts.

Yes, the stock bulbs (in Holland OSRAM 64210l (l=longlife) last for 450 hours. The normal bulb 64210 last for 330 hours. The top bulb of OSRAM europe the Silverstar (= not the same as the silvania version) last for 135 hours. The europian Silverstar (equal rated as the Philips Vision Plus) can be compared wiht Mtec. Only the Silverstar burns at 4000k the Mtec at 4350 and the stockbulb at 3330