This is too many pages to comb through, for us headlight naive people, are those direct drop in replacement bulbs that are brighter than stock? Not LEDs or HIDs or anything, but halogens h11 replacement bulbs?

And brighter, I mean lumens, not color temp. I just want a brighter head light, not a blue headlight, or anything like that. Just a brighter headlight.

The Osram and GE bulbs are both direct drop in halogen bulbs that are brighter than standard H11’s. The 9011’s fit in place of the 9005’s for the highs with a slight modification to one of mounting tabs.

But only for you.

True.

So many drivers think that driving with fog lights on helps them see better. So they leave them on always, in foggy, wet, snowy, dry conditions and even during the day. Now that winter is here with wet roads the low illumination glare of fog lights reflected off shiny roads is really annoying even in daylight. Combine that with misaligned low beams, crappy LED replacements, overly bright HIDs, and generally misaligned headlights, and it makes for a shitty nighttime driving experience. Even in a high profile vehicle like a 4R. Imagine what it’s like for drivers of lower slung sedans.

Everyone, please be courteous to other drivers; use proper headlights, align them correctly, use fog lights only in foggy conditions. Because we all are “other drivers”.

For more info on fog lights read this Daniel Stern article:

Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and Supply

Here’s an excerpt:
“Fog lamps of any type should not be used in dry weather. Leaving the fog lamps on at all times does not actually improve the lighting safety performance or the driver's ability to see, though many people do so in the mistaken belief that they can see better this way at normal road speeds in dry weather. In fact, a systematic study done by one of North America's preëminent traffic safety research institutes shows that in the United States more people inappropriately use their front fog lamps in dry weather than use them properly in poor weather.

Why? Because we human beings generally can't accurately tell how well or how poorly we see. We have subjective impressions, reactions, and feelings about how "good" or "bad" our headlamps are, and they feel very real to us, but they're very far out of line with the objective, measurable, real lighting performance and seeing ability. It's not that we're fooling ourselves, it's that our visual systems just aren't equipped to correctly assess how well or how poorly we can see. The primary driver for a subjective impression of "good" headlighting is foreground light—and remember, that's what fog lamps produce—but foreground light is very far down the list of factors that go into the actual, real safety performance of the car's lighting system; that is, how well it actually lets the driver see what must be seen to avoid a crash. In clear conditions, though it makes us feel (falsely) more secure, more foreground light is not a good thing, it's a bad thing. Of course, some foreground light is necessary so you can use your peripheral vision to see where you are relative to the road edges, the lane markings and that pothole 20 feet in front of your left wheels.”