Why are they a joke might i ask...

Me and friends of mine have used them many times... and they have lasted for over a year now. They are 25$ for two pairs and I would put money on the fact that they are brighter then yours. And I know they are whiter... I have compared them side by side. If you are worried about oncoming traffic... like I give a rats ass, it's not that big of a deal.

 

Oh, and if you have never actually used Showoff's then please keep your mouth shut...

 

I've used them and price to performance they're ok, It's hard to justify $25 a bulb for silverstars, or worse yet the $80 I paid for the PIAAs I got in HK. The only thing I don't like about showoffs is the blue painted bulbs, the cops here don't like that. It makes your whole reflector look blue. To me, the money I spent on cheese bulbs before I got HID I could have had HID low beams, high beams, and fog lamps. I tried Nokya Arctic white and purple, the arctic white was nice, but not that bright. I've done PIAA Extreme white, and Super Plasma, both great color, but again OEM halogen was brighter, I tried blue, and purple showoffs, the purple were no joke, I swore I was going to get a ticket, they were just PURPLE..The blue were ok, but still not as bright as stock halogen(I have pics somewhere I'll try to dig them up). Now that good HID kits are getting down as low as $350 I'd love to see more folks save up and put HID in instead of wasting money on the bulbs. I had some guy on saturday that had me rolling. I pulled up next to him and my beam pattern just drowned his completely out, and he said "dayuuummn, what kind of bulbs are those", I said "HID", he replied "no, I mean what kind of bulbs are those", I answered "They are rebased osram d2r" and the moron responded "oh are those like silverstars" I almost pee'd myself laughing, thankfully the light turned green, I felt my brain melting away just being next to him. The whole purpose of all of these bulbs is to look "LIKE HID" why not just safe your dough and get the real deal? It's gotten so bad, people are fooled into believing that these fake bulbs are actually xenon, or HID, when if they have any xenon at all, it's solely used as a doping gas to change the color a tad. But they are still primarily halogen(most of the "xenon" bulbs are still as much as 90% halogen in them), the filament wouldn't burn if they didn't have enough halogen in them, xenon is used in HID bulbs because of it's properties of sustaining an arc, not because of it's color, the color in HID bulbs comes from the salts, and the electrodes, not the gas, and if the gas is effecting it, it's not by much. (except for the newest gen of bulb with the blue coating on them, which personally is cheesy to me)

 

You guys need to understand that PIAA and Sylvania has different models, with varying capacity. PIAA makes some horrible bulbs, and so does Sylvania....PIAA's Superwhite Platinum bulbs absoulely ROCK....no need to use your brights.

 

sylvania silverstars, the 9005 conversion....for the money its the best lighting upgrade you can do for an accord. to me the piaa's suck, nice and white and they just dont do much for actually seeing anything though...and those showoff bulbs are weak next to the silverstars.
my high beams are still stock bulbs, and my lowbeams(silverstars) throw nearly as far, though they are focused down so as to not blind anyone.

 

I really don't think your lights are "whiter" as you claim....cuz all those bulbs are coated with blue tint which hurts the light output and gives little to no bad weather vision. I bet when it rains you can't see a damn thing with those bulbs. THEY MAY LOOK "WHITER" COMPARED TO YOUR STOCKS...BUT IN REALITY THEY ARE BLUER THAN A SMURFS ASS!!!! :blue: :jerkit: :ghey:

 

I have taken pictures with both silverstars and showoffs and some line of PIAA's that my friend had... all in the same car all 9005 bulbs... the showoffs were brighter and whiter.

 

I got Silverstars after much of the same debate over PIAA's mainly because of price and most people seemed to think there weren't much of a difference. I'm very happy with them and they are soo much brighter then stocks or even the Cool Blues I had way back. They are definitely worth the price.

You should give a rats ass about oncoming traffic what if it were your mother, father, sister or brother you blinding into a tree on the other side of the road.