What will you choose? Xenon Bulbs or Halogen Bulbs.

Xenon headlight bulbs are getting more and more popular day by day. Nowadays, vehicle owners are buying and installing xenon headlight bulbs to obtain better light quality. These highly advanced and powerful light sources can be easily placed either inside or outside your car according to your requirement. 

Pay attention to head lamps

While buying a car, all of us look at the basic things – power of the engine, speed, number of gears etc. Do we pay enough attention to one of the most important parts of a car which is the head lamps? Head lights are important because safety of the driver and the passengers depend a big deal on them. If head lights do not provide a good visibility, not only the driving experience is bad but even the safety is compromised. Very bright lights can also lead to fatal accidents since they cause issue for the drivers coming from the opposite end.

Various options for the head lights having been raging a war on each other since a few years now. Halogen lights which are the most popular and inexpensive aren’t really efficient and thus cause a lot of fuel wastage. Xenon Headlight bulbs are a bit more expensive than halogens but give an amazing bright light. At the same time, it also causes the danger to the vehicle driving from the other end. These are more efficient than halogens but are less popular because of the new technology and high cost. There is the third category of light which LED. These have not made their path all the way up to head lamps. Because quick response and sharp lights, these are used as braking lights and day parking lights. LED’s are most commonly used as decorative lights on different brands of cars.

So, here you see the real battle of lights in terms of efficiency, cost and power.

Confusion over headlamps – Xenon or Halogens

Lewis lives in London and is owner of brand new SUV. He has always wanted to buy a big car so that he can go on long rides. Now, he has one. He wants to roam around a lot in that car and go for safari rides; go for really long trips on the mountains and beaches. But there is one thing that worries him. He had heard a lot about the new Xenon lights are available today and which give much better visibility than the current halogen lights. 

Confused as Lewis was, he decided to get himself educated on this. His SUV came with halogen bulbs, about which the salesman mentioned that these cheap and easy to replace and more over the life of halogen bulbs is really high. He believed him but now hearing about xenon lights, he was just curious so he hit the car workshops to understand the difference.

He was told what salesman told him was not wrong. Halogens are cheap and live longer. What he was not told was halogen also waste a lot of energy and is not efficient. Producing a lot of heat while incandescing, it loses all that heat thus leading to wastage of energy and more fuel consumption. He was advised to change the headlamps of his SUV to xenon. When he asked why, he was given a very clear reason – to save your fuel consumption and hence to save the environment.

Understanding the difference, Lewis did not make a second thought before replacing the halogens with the xenon lights.