PIAA H4 Xtreme White Headlight
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From: Al Bu Ker Key, New Mexico
Years ago I played around with alternative bulbs for my FXR2's headlamp. Tried several brands including PIAA.....all with a higher voltage than the stock replacement bulb. Several of them worked great but tended to burn out quickly.......the last one I used totally burned out the bulb socket in my headlamp and I then found I could no longer purchase the replacement headlamp assembly from Harley. Had to do some re-wiring and went back to using the stock bulbs. Just my experience.
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They are not completely plug and play, you do have to run another power wire, but the bulbs do plug right in, if you get the bi-xenon you have low and high beam, and there is a metal deflector in the bulb that helps a lot with the lighting pattern. You will often here people say the lights blind oncoming drivers, not true, if you have them properly aimed there will not be a problem. I had HID's for 2 years before I recently went to LEDs, I absolutely loved them, BTW I went with a 6K light, slight blue but nice and bright, 8K was too blue for me, and 5K is good also, I just happened to like the slight blue color.
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I have a 96 RK that I bought new and I've had the H-4 extreme white headlight bulb in for just about the intire time I've had the bike. It was one of the first upgrades I did. I also have the H-3 extreme white passing light bulbs. These bulbs have a very bright white color and at night time they really make dark roads a lot more visible than the stock bulbs. Looks almost like daylight with all three lights on. You can actually see further down the road with these. I put one in my wife's bike also. We did have one H-4 bulb fail early on but the rest are still going strong. I plan on continuing to use these bulbs because they just plain work well.
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