What you do is put 9005s, the high beam bulbs, into the place of the 9006s, low beams.

I got mine as pulls at a junkyard, many quad headlight cars, besides 9000s, use them. I have a small pile in case one burns out.

Take the O-ring off your present 9006 and add it to the 9005, beyond the current O-ring, which is smaller. Bulb will now seal to the housing.

Then you reach in with very small-jaw nips, or cut with a paring chisel, or grind with some Dremel tool, the TWO little ribs down the side of the oval socket of the bulb. 9006s have one rib, centered, 9005s have two side by side. Need to be trimmed off all the way down into the socket.

The easiest tool I found was the tiny nippers, hardened black sheet metal, that I picked up long ago at a flea market that had lots of stuff from an electronics assembly line (soldering stations etc.). Were used as wire cutters and strippers. Standard side-cutting pliers are too big to fit down in.

Next best tool, especially at finishing up, was the wood chisel.

The focal points of the bulbs are said to be identical so they work with the low beam optics, 9005s are just brighter. I'm very happy and NO ONE has high-beamed me for over-brightness. They're aimed low where low beams go.

I found on here a reference to even brighter bulbs, HIR they're called, from late-model Nissan Maximas and a few other cars. Need some dremel trimming of the outer tabs, detailed on a site the reference on here sent me to. I mean to visit a Nissan dealer to find out what they cost. You can use a std HIR low beam in low beam socket with just outer tab trimming, or go even brighter using an HIR high beam trimming both outer tab and also the two ribs you trim in a 9005 to fit in low beam socket.

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