If You Bought Sylvania Automotive Lighting

[fastblackmerc]

If You Bought Sylvania Automotive Lighting............

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The lawsuit claims that Sylvania made misrepresentations regarding the performance of certain premium automotive lighting, including claims regarding brightness, road visibility, and life of the bulbs. Sylvania denies these claims and denies that it did anything wrong."... but their going to settle.....

Go to www.autolightclaims.com and fill out a form if you haven't received a post card.

"The Settlement includes any person or entity that bought one or more of the Covered Products, other than for resale or distribution, in the United States (or any territory or possession) from September 22, 2005 to July 11, 2014.

The Covered Products are:

SilverStar ULTRA®, SilverStar®, XtraVision®,or Cool Blue® replacement headlight capsules;
SilverStar®, XtraVision®, or Cool Blue® sealed beam headlights; and
SilverStar® fog or auxiliary lights."

[ctrlraven]

I've purchased three of those products, two did not last as long as they claimed and the other was no where near as bright as they claimed.

[fastblackmerc]

I've purchased three of those products, two did not last as long as they claimed and the other was no where near as bright as they claimed.

That's exactly why there is the lawsuit.

[guspech750]

NFG.

I know for a fact mine are much much brighter than the OEM bulbs. So far so good.


Sent from The White House on taxpayers dimes.

DTR + 4.10's + Eaton swap = Wreeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom

[whitey]

I had silverstars in my civic back in the day, they were great! For about 6 months....until one went out. For the price of silverstars you can get an hid kit nowadays, a little more involved then replacing a bulb, but worth it. Id never buy silverstars again.

[Spectragod]

Got silverstars in my stock headlamps, stashed away in a box, they worked ok when I had them in the car, not a big deal to jump into a law suit to score a couple of bucks. But for those that feel wronged by Sylvania, jump on board.

[Joe Walsh]

I posted up about those SilverStar POS bulbs years ago.
I knocked/bad mouthed them whenever I got the chance in order to save someone else the trouble that I'd gone through with them.
I even called Sylvania and got them to send me a new set of bulbs because I had gone through 3 sets of those overpriced things in under 2 years....:eek:
The replacement set that they sent me lasted......6 months!....:shake:
Total JUNK!!

I went back to PIAA and haven't replaced a PIAA bulb in ANY of my 3 vehicles that I run them in.

[RF Overlord]

I have SilverStars in The Blackbird...been there at least 8 years.

I put SilverStar Ultras in Mary's car when we got it and they've been there a long damn time, too. The only thing is the Ultras were not worth the price differential over the plain SilverStars.

Having said all that, I have GE NightHawks cued up for replacements. Daniel Stern gives them a good rating.

[Mebot]

CtrlRaven, what are the turn signal lamps in our MM? Are those silverstars?

[ctrlraven]

CtrlRaven, what are the turn signal lamps in our MM? Are those silverstars?
Yes they are but by the luck of the Irish they seem to be the best bulbs Sylvania ever made. I am still running my original set I installed 5-6 years ago.

The lawsuit is really to do with their headlights. The regular Silverstar bulbs are brighter than stock but thats due to burning hotter, more heat = shorter life span. The Silverstar headlights I used lasted one year and both low beams went out at the same time, left me stranded about 60 miles from home one night. The Silverstar H1 foglight bulbs last maybe 100 hrs. The Silverstar Ultra's are better than stock but not as bright as the regular Silverstar even though they claim "30% brighter", definitely not worth $10 more than the regular ones.

[Mebot]

Gotcha. Yes I'm happy with my corner lamps as well. My fog lights used to burn out all the time. Glad I switched to HID

[Joe Walsh]

Yes they are but by the luck of the Irish they seem to be the best bulbs Sylvania ever made. I am still running my original set I installed 5-6 years ago.

The lawsuit is really to do with their headlights.
The regular Silverstar bulbs are brighter than stock but thats due to burning hotter, more heat = shorter life span.
The Silverstar headlights I used lasted one year and both low beams went out at the same time, left me stranded about 60 miles from home one night.
The Silverstar H1 foglight bulbs last maybe 100 hrs.
The Silverstar Ultra's are better than stock but not as bright as the regular Silverstar even though they claim "30% brighter", definitely not worth $10 more than the regular ones.

True Dat!

PIAA FTW!

[Marauderjack]

Fog lights lasted EXACTLY 90 days.....both went POOF the same damn day!!:mad2:

Sylvania CS said they only last 90-100 hours and I run mine all the time day or night......JUNK but boy they were BRIGHT!!:eek:

[larryo340]

I'm running Sylvania ZXE's in both the headlights and fog lights for the past year with no burnouts, and they're very bright and white :)

[fireandice9008]

Something tells me I'm gonna regret filling that out, but we'll see what happens.

I wish Hella still made decent headlight bulbs. Had some in the Superduty, lasted 5 years and could land airplanes from across town.

[lifespeed]

Having said all that, I have GE NightHawks cued up for replacements. Daniel Stern gives them a good rating.

That guy knows his headlights!

[88CuttyClassic]

I had the same pair of SS ultras in in 3 cars. No problems. I have sealed beam Silver stars in my monte SS. No problems. I do prefer HIDs thou

[chief455]

Are the ZXE bulbs included in the 'short life - not as bright as advertised' category?

[ctrlraven]

Settlement payout
http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1460820#post1 460820