Headlight bulbs, like a lot of service parts on a car are often over looked, and people just plump for 'the cheapest', usually the day after they've realised they've blown. Yet like paying a few pounds extra for decent tyres and brakes, can make all the difference to staying on the road in the intended direction. My Audi has the good old H4 headlight bulbs, and in the old headlight units, on dipped beam they are more akin to candles, like many I'd normally wait for the bulbs to fail, but I'd kept reading good things on the Philips upgrades, and decided to get some as the winter nights drew in, so I'd actually getting the benefit of them over winter. Whilst doing so I decided to go the full hog and replace both the H4 and the H1 driving spots, and in the end settled for Philips X-treme Power +80% at £22.50 for each set. These bulbs "transform your headlights with up to 80% more light than standard bulbs, yet are E markes and fully road legal". Bit of canny shopping online via Quidco meant I also got 12% back, bringing them down to sub £40. Read the rest of this entry »