Category: Lights & Lamps

Ring’s Xenon150 and Xenon130 high performance headlamps have been top performers in this year’s Auto Express headlamp bulb test, with both receiving four stars and a Recommended award each.

Apart from when the bulb needs replacing, despite being central to both driver and pedestrian safety, the headlamp is probably one of the most overlooked parts of a vehicle. However, as this abbreviated article from the Tech World www.techworld.com technical website reveals, these components, on which motorists are completely reliant, are highly engineered, so what’s

Whether in smartphones or televisions, OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) have already entered the mass market. In cooperation with the lighting and electronics expert Hella, vehicle manufacturer (VM) Audi, has recently integrated OLED technology into the rear combination lamps of its new A8. The appearance of both headlamps and rear combination lamps is no longer only

Lumileds, the company behind the Philips lighting range is advising garages to replace headlamp bulbs in pairs as a smarter, more convenient and more economic approach to maintenance. The lamp filament becomes fragile as it gets older, that makes driving at night more hazardous. It’s also faster, easier and cheaper to change both headlamps, rather than just one. It’s

Together with the vehicle manufacturer Audi, Hella has developed a striking lighting technology for the new Audi A7 Sportback, the headlamps for which are available as LED, Matrix LED and HD Matrix LED with laser high beam variants. The system uses a new control unit, which takes care of all of the lighting functions and in

Osram’s LEDriving Fog Lamps provide powerful LED illumination on the road cutting through fog and hazardous weather conditions and can be used to upgrade standard halogen bulbs to LED without replacing the whole fog lamp fixture. Where a vehicle uses halogen ECE types: H8, H10, H11 and H16 the LEDriving Fog Lamps can be used

A small and compact display allows garages, workshops and trade counters to stock the best quality LED bulbs from Osram. The displays are supplied empty so stockists can “pick and mix” any of the blister packs in the Osram range to suit individual requirements. The Osram CANbus Control Units can also be included, meaning stockists

Cars vary hugely in complexity. For some cars, it’s relatively simple to open the bonnet and get to the back of the headlight, remove the old bulb and replace it with a new one. As technology has advanced, the space within the engine compartment has been filled, making it more and more difficult to replace

The latest generation Volkswagen Touareg, which has just had its world premiere in China, features one of the most powerful lighting systems on the market – the LED Matrix Headlamp, jointly developed by Hella and Volkswagen. Volkswagen will offer the innovative lighting system for the new luxury class SUV, under the ‘IQ.LIGHT – LED Matrix