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Winter time – cyclops time

In winter with its long nights and rainy, snowy and foggy days you see them everywhere: the one-eyed cars which only at the very last moment can be identifed as four-wheel vehicles. Just one poor light at the front feebly attempts to provide the driver with some road orientation. Not only is this uncomfortable, but also very dangerous for both the driver and for other traffic participants!

Car or motorcycle?

Even if an encounter with a motorcycle is rather unlikely in winter – from afar, that is exactly what a "one-eyed" car looks like. When a hasty traffic participant starts taking over on the opposite track, an accident is almost unavoidable. Therefore the lighting of a car must be in perfect condition at all times. Driving with defective dipped beam headlight incurs a fine of 60 EUR (±£52). On the other hand, car manufacturers are required to build their lighting systems in such a way that lamp replacement can be done in a few minutes. Therefore it is always useful to have an additional set of lamps at hand. You might need them sooner or later.

Why a greater risk in winter?

The reason why dipped beam headlights break down especially in the cold season lies in their construction. A headlight heats up considerably. Temperature changes are bigger in winter. In the course of time the fittings are affected and start to leak. Air enters the lamp glass' vacuum and the filament burns out at the first occasion it is switched on. Naturally, a lot depends on the quality of the lamp as well.

Osram – the original

Osram is an international market leader in lamp manufacture. The German company gets its name from the elements composing the filament of the traditional lightbulb: OSmium and wolfRAM. Although Osram has completed the conversion from traditional filament lamps to xenon and LED, the top-class high-grade and cheap lamps are still the core of this manufacturer's product programme. Osram lightbulbs convince with their long life span. Additionally, the company succeeded in further developing the light bulbs in the wake of the success of xenon. Modern lamps for dipped beam headlights have considerable lighting power and give the tired headlights renewed clarity. An innovation is the OSRAM NIGHT BREAKER. Equipped with innovative laser technology, these lamps for dipped beam headlights can reach an intensity enhancement of more than 150%. This comes close to the effective, but still very expensive xenon headlights. Even today, many car owners switch back from expensive xenon headlights to traditional lights. OSRAM offers the suitable lighting.

Unbeatable prices

A xenon headlight costs hundreds of pounds. Furthermore, they are never replaced separately but always pairwise. LED-based beams are not very expensive, but still do not attain the lighting power of traditional lightbulbs. Therefore the traditional lighting solutions still offer the best price-performance rate. Nevertheless the quality, ideally OSRAM quality, always has to be taken into consideration. In the online mail order trade you might find lightbulbs at £1 a piece. But be honest – what performance can you reasonably expect from these cheap solutions? You might consider yourself lucky if you see anything at all with these lamps. OSRAM's flag ship, the Night breaker costs 20 EUR (£18) per set at the professional dealer, or 10 EUR (£9) a piece. Certainly you will find much cheaper offers on the free online market places, but we advise against them. The risk of buying a counterfeit product is simply too great. It might say Osram on the packaging, the content is a cheap £1 lamp. You can save yourself this annoyance by immediately going to your trusted spare part dealer.