So today was my first day even under the hood of my Crossfire. YIKES!
I'm just not the most...."automotive-friendly" person ---- or maybe I just never had the desire.

Well today, I was at an auto store and saw these new lights by Sylvania. They are known as the ZXE lights and they are supposedly around 4200k. I am planning to switch to H.I.D. soon so I figured I could try these just to get a "general" idea of how HID is going to look.

So I bought the bulbs which were on SALE for 49.99. I was TERRIFIED to install them. I just knew I would be headed to the shop first thing in the morning because I was going to destroy SOMETHING!

I referenced the forum on how to change the headlight bulb and it helped so much! The silver clip fell off and it literally took me an hour just to figure out how to put it back on but once that was done it was SMOOTH sailing! The passenger side only took me 5 minutes to switch out because I finally had the hang of it.

Here is a picture of how it turned out. I think they look really good; I like the white light ALOT. I will be going to get the same bulbs for the fog lights and high beams tomorrow and am going to attempt to replace them as well. Wish me luck!

Have any of you heard of these lights?

 

No pictures for me James.

 

Sorry!!! It wouldn't let me post my pictures....I have attached them now though! :-)

 

I can't really tell with the pics...you might still want to get HID's though. Do you know any forum members near you?

Those will work fine for your high beams.

P.S. Your drivers-side "eyebrow" light is out.

New problem-new challenge! You can do it!

 

~ a much cleaner white...

i went to the hids for my low beams and wow what a difference... i wondered why i waited so long to make the change.

 

If you are not mechanically inclined, the HIDs can be a bit of a hassle. It is not so much the actual wiring of the HIDs, but rather the pain it is to figure out how to clip the HID bulbs with the OEM wire clips since HID bulbs have wires protruding directly from the back of them. You can do plenty of searches on this forum to read more about the install process.

From those pictures the Silverstars look pretty good and I actually had those installed on my Limited before swapping them out for HIDs. As andrew said though, HIDs are night and day difference and, IMHO, they make the car look even more modern/current.

I have 5000K HIDs in my headlights and 5000K LEDs in my license plate lights in my black SRT-6 and I really think it gives the car a clean look on par with the fancy LEDs/HIDs found in newer models such as the Nissan 370Z, Camaros, etc. People can't believe my car is a 2005 model when I tell them - but the Crossfire's timeless style also contributes to that.

Good luck and enjoy those lights - even if you stick with the Silverstars, they are still much brighter than stock halogens.

 

Took another picture last night. Looks pretty cool but I still want HID!

 

Stick with these bulbs for your high beams and replace only the low beams with HID. HID (=Xenon) take a moment to fire up and don't take kindly to lots of on-off activity. That's why Audi (I have one) and other German makes either use Xenon for low and a high light output bulb like the Sylvanias for high beam, or use bi-Xenon which is a moving metal shield that shapes the Xenon beam differently for low or high beam.