joshwairi

I have a 2003 Honda Accord EX-V6, with the standard OEM HID lights, would it make sense to upgrade (or maybe a downgrade from what I've seen on amazon) to SilverStar Headlights?
There is a 4 star rating for the lights on amazon, but many people have complints of the lights lasting less than a year, in some cases only 4 months. Is the lighting really significantly better?

Thanks for any help

Splaturn

You will not see any gains in usable light switching from the OEM HID's to Silverstar Halogen bulbs. If Silverstar Makes HID replacement bulbs (which i dont think they do), that may be another story.

Kasakuto

yeah u wont see much diffrence

JDM_Acccord

03 accords do not come with oem high intensity discharge lights (HIDs).

kleen98accord

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDM_Acccord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">03 accords do not come with oem high intensity discharge lights (HIDs). </TD></TR></TABLE>

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You probably have a 9006 for the low beam.

joshwairi

Whoops!!!

I have no clue where I got the HID information. Well now that this is cleared up, will I see significant imporvement from my OEM aero-composite halogen headlamps?

hometheaterman

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDM_Acccord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">03 accords do not come with oem high intensity discharge lights (HIDs). </TD></TR></TABLE>Exactly what I was going to say. If you have HID's someone added them and you would probably see a downgrade going to Silverstars. However if you have the oem halogens you may see a little improvement but I wouldn't expect it to be a huge one.

someone else

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hometheaterman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Exactly what I was going to say. If you have HID's someone added them and you would probably see a downgrade going to Silverstars. However if you have the oem halogens you may see a little improvement but I wouldn't expect it to be a huge one. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Silverstar does have a little better light output but in my experience 4-6 months seems to be a fairly average life. I bought some several years ago and they both went out in less than 6 months. I went back to stock at that point and just recently switched to a 6000k HID kit.

I love the HIDs. Especially driving at night in the rain.