LED sidelight bulbs?

Phillips 4000k led side lights arrived today. Very happy with results so far. Nice white light from them
When main beam on blends in nicely. No more 2 blue eyes.
Thanks for advice and will post up some pictures when possible.
 
Here's some pictures
One just sidelight one sidelight and main beam
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@DJ 190 David I don’t know if my Osram 501 W5W 4000k are necessarily brighter, but they are certainly whiter than standard bulbs. A very clean look compared with how yellow conventional bulbs now appear.

Andrew

PS just found these tables of colour temperatures degrees Kelvin (k) which I had saved

Colour: degrees Kelvin (K)
Candlelight 1,500K
Incandescent 2,700K
Midday sun 5,000K
Blue sky 10,000K

Lamp colour temperatures
2,200K flame
2,700K warm white
3,000K white
5,000K cool white

6,500K daylight
As a matter of a fact I compared 501 Philips X-treme Vision LED 12V W5W 6000K with Osram 501 W5W 6000k last Sunday. Just fitted Osram in the left and Philips in the right. Asked my wife to look at them too - I wear glasses so that to have a "normal" viewer opinion;-)

There was no difference in the light output and both bulbs produced the same amount of light so to say. Possibly, the amount of light was still different if measured by some technical device yet it was absolutely the same for a human eye.

There was, however, a difference in the quality of the light. Philips produced well rounded coherent "day white" as per box. Osram's light was with some greenish/yellowish tint, hard to say definitely.

I thought that it might have been because a tube where the bulb goes is already burnt by standard bulbs and the tube itself is not milky transparent as it should be but yellowish at the place where a standard bulb was inside. But then I realised that that tube where the Philips bulb was placed is burnt as well...

...therefore I decided to stay with a Philips bulb. Just to explain how good its light is I would say that even if the Philips had been twice as expensive as it is, I would still have fitted it.
 
Another LED bulb worth considering for your "off-road" illumination is the Philips automotive lighting part number 12799I60X2 (or 12799I6000X2 as on my box) X-treme Ultinon LED Interior car Light W5W T10 6000K 12V, Set of 2, 6000 Kelvin - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0743CWC5P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I am not sure if there is a difference btwn this Philips 6000k LED and the others mentioned above (not sure what Vision vs Ultinon is....).
And as I just installed them, and don't use the A2 regularly, I can't give any feedback regarding longevity/reliability yet.

They are made in 4000k, 6000k and 8000k (white, whiter, whitest w/ blue tint) models.
Photo1 shows the difference btwn 3W normal filament T10 bulb and the new 6000k LED bulb.
Photo2 shows LEDs w just the 55W halogen fog lights (w/o low beam headlights). Maybe the 4000k LEDs would be closer to the halogen in color tone.
 

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