What is the best dim headlight bulb for the 1994 K3500?

[jrsavoie]

What is the best dim headlight bulb for the 1994 K3500? Something readily available?

I had my wife pick a bulb up - 35 mile round trip and she was given the bulb for the bright Wagner 9005

Tomorrow morning I have to make a road trip

 

[Brooklyn Tow]

Prob 9004 or 9006

 

[jrsavoie]

Sure wish I could still edit. Anybody want to aDD TO THE ORIGINAL POST THAT THE DIM HEADLIGHT IS A 9006?
Thanks
I had somebody recomend a PIAA bulb in Xtreme white or Star white

 

[matuva]

low beam 9006, high beam 9005.
Philips HIR bulbs are said to be pretty close from the HID ones (which need a ballast)...

 

[Burning oil]

If you want a "dim" light you could put some winow tint over the lens.








"But seriously folks" HIDs for the money are my choice. A set of high end bulbs from auto parts is what? around $40 or more? and I don't know that they have anymore usefull light output than stock.

 

[Mad Maxx]

Something Readily Avail for a 9006 Low Beam would be Philips Premium 9006.

It'll be a lil Brighter than the Regular 9006.

 

[someotherguy]

Problem with HIR's are the availability, and also that you need to do a very slight hack to their base to retrofit them to 9005/9006 sockets. No big deal.

HID's are great too, as long as you get them in a reasonable color temperature, and DO NOT use them in the factory housings on the 88-98 trucks! The lack of a "glare cap" allows for so much glare all you end up doing is blinding everyone else on the road. This is where housings like the TYC Elegantes I mentioned before come in handy. They have a cap over the end of the capsule, similar to the late model trucks, which really cuts down the glare. I've got 5300K HID's and the TYC housings on my '94 extended cab. Light is almost white, near factory color, not any of that annoying blue ricer effect.

(Edit - there are also HID capsules that are designed for reflector housings, instead of projectors, which have their own covering on the end of the capsule and a sleeve around the light-producing portion that controls the output of the light. They're not the easiest thing to find though and you also won't find them in the inexpensive aftermarket HID conversion kits. The reflector style HID capsules are an OEM Phillips item and are a couple hundred bucks just for the capsules, then you still have to buy ballasts and connectors.)

Richard