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We just purchased a new to us 2016 Hyundai Sonata Sport. The headlamps seem to be a soft yellow (typical headlamp color on most cars) but the LED fog lights beneath them are bright white.
Both your headlamps and your fog lamps produce white light. Compared to the very high CCT of the LED fog lamps, they might seem to tend toward yellow, but they are still white.
My wife is trying to get a different bulb for the low beams that will more closely match the white LED's below.
Why? Headlamps and fog lamps are life safety equipment. Most of the time, you won't even know what color your fog lamps are because they shouldn't be on. Fog lamps are useful only when all three are true:
- It is nighttime
- It is genuinely foggy
- You are going slower than 30mph
Fog lamps are
not for daytime, clear weather, or speeds over 30mph. They can, if properly designed and located on a vehicle, and properly *used*, occasionally prove useful. They are not for style, nor are they for impressing people, and they do not supplement the low beam or help spot deer or anything of the sort. They're for crawling along and keeping your lane when forward visibility is extremely poor. (A rear fog lamp is much more useful; try the forum search for more information.)
Fog lamps are often misused and misunderstood-- for more information on them, and on why they're not extremely useful, see
here.
She doesn't want to go to full HID's yet so I am looking for a regular Halogen bulb I guess.
Going "full HID" would mean needing a new lamp assembly, designed to use an arc-discharge capsule. Your parts department should be able to tell you the availability and price of the genuine Hyundai parts (I'd expect around $800 each); the service department can probably quote the installation price.
I don't have a manual with the car but when I called the parts dept at Hyundai, they told me the OEM bulbs are HB3. I was going to give the Sylvania Silverstar Ultra's a run, but the more I read, the more I see complaints about longevity. Are there any bulb guru's here who can point me in the right direction?
Sylvania SilverStar Ultras are terrible bulbs, with a short lifespan and when they're still working they produce poor-quality light. The best HB3 you can use is
this, your high beam is
ALSO HB3 but for that, swapping in
this HIR1 after a
base modification (that site is unrelated to this forum, despite similarities of the URLs) will maximize your high beam.