{"id":964,"date":"2006-04-11T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T20:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/11\/i-replaced-my-headlights\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T13:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T20:59:28","slug":"i-replaced-my-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/11\/i-replaced-my-headlights\/","title":{"rendered":"I Replaced My Headlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my headlights went out last week. I went to Kragen Auto Parts and got new bulbs. I paid a little extra and got Sylvania XtraVision headlamps. I had bought Silverstar headlamps but I found out that they only have an average life of 1 year in a car. $60 a year on automotive lighting&#8230; blah.<\/p>\n<p>The XtraVision are marketed as having &#8220;up to 20% more illumination&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvania.com\/ConsumerProducts\/AutomotiveLighting\/HighPerformance\/Xtravision\/default.htm\">source<\/a>). After pulling out my 8 year old bulbs and installing them, I came to realize that &#8220;up to 20%&#8221; includes &#8220;only barely noticeable&#8221;. :-( <\/p>\n<p>Oh well. At least I had fun figuring out how to change the headlamps in a 1998 Chrysler Sebring LX Convertible. The first one took half an hour of fiddling. The second took 3 minutes. :-)<\/p>\n<p>I was unfortunately unable to change the direction they point. I found the controls but I think they had aged and wouldn&#8217;t move properly.<\/p>\n<p>Does it bug anyone else that Sylvania is using shortened life span as a sort of &#8220;planned obsolescence&#8221; money maker? They can easily make them last 3,000 hours for almost no extra cost but they choose to make them last 850 hours. Halogens last that long as a matter of course; that&#8217;s what the halogen is for. I think they need some healthy competition in the marketplace. Anyone want to start an automotive lighting company?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my headlights went out last week. I went to Kragen Auto Parts and got new bulbs. I paid a little extra and got Sylvania XtraVision headlamps. I had bought Silverstar headlamps but I found out that they only have an average life of 1 year in a car. $60 a year on automotive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}