Hella Jumbo 320

[Lightdoctor]

Has anyone tryed these? They take the H7 lamp, which I hear is good.
(Looking at the model with the city light function.)

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[-Virgil-]

It's a well-designed line of lamps, but what is your goal? You always have to match the lamp(s) you buy to the goals of where you need more light and in what conditions. "Driving lights" are auxiliary high beam lamps. They are not suitable (or safe, or legal) for use if there are any other vehicles on your same road, or with no other lights, or with low beam headlamps, or in bad weather. Fog lamps are of very limited use for most drivers, though if you have a genuine need for a fog lamp, and room to mount a large one like this properly (i.e., as low as possible to maximize the height difference between the lamps and the driver's eyes) then the J320 would be a solid choice. But since you mention the one with "city lights", it looks like you've got your eyes on the Xenon "driving light" with the LED position lamps. Expensive, but definitely a good lamp. Mount 'em up high, at or above headlamp height, and wire them properly so that they can only light up if the main high beam headlamps are on (and they shut off immediately when you switch to low beams, without your having to touch any other switch).

 

[Lightdoctor]

My plan was to mount them on a brush guard and have them wired with the high beams (using a relay of course) for very rural driving in the short daylight season. (The city light option was just an idea; probably will not order that option.) This is the halogen version...with the H7. (I don't like Xenon (Metal-Halide) headlights...period. Way to much obnoxious blue! If 3500k was the standard, I would probably change my mind.)

 

[-Virgil-]

You could install the Philips "3000K" selective yellow HID bulb, just a thought.

 

[Lightdoctor]

You could install the Philips "3000K" selective yellow HID bulb, just a thought.

That's an idea, but wouldn't work well when using them as auxiliary high beams (on and off in quick succession).

 

[CathastrophiX]

I have two of the Hella Jumbo 320s with blue glass on my Hyundai Tucson.
They are alright, but the light is directed in a quite "flat" manner.
If you will use the lights in an area with much hills and valleys, I suggest you get other lights, that direct the light more up- and downwards also.
(Hella 1000 or Bosch Big Knick for example)

 

[Alaric Darconville]

I have two of the Hella Jumbo 320s with blue glass on my Hyundai Tucson.
They are alright, but the light is directed in a quite "flat" manner.

"Alright"? With blue glass? There are only two colors of glass I'd use: Clear, or selective yellow. And since the OPs intended purpose is as an auxiliary high beam driving light, not as a fog light, it'd suggest clear.

 

[Lightdoctor]

"Alright"? With blue glass? There are only two colors of glass I'd use: Clear, or selective yellow. And since the OPs intended purpose is as an auxiliary high beam driving light, not as a fog light, it'd suggest clear.

I would never even consider blue glass on any automotive forward illuminating device. (IF I changed the color at all, it would be to yellow or 'all weather' goldish. A neighbor of mine did that to his old Mercedes SUV.) I'm planning on 3200k, standard color.

 

[Lightdoctor]

I have two of the Hella Jumbo 320s with blue glass on my Hyundai Tucson.
They are alright, but the light is directed in a quite "flat" manner.
If you will use the lights in an area with much hills and valleys, I suggest you get other lights, that direct the light more up- and downwards also.
(Hella 1000 or Bosch Big Knick for example)

Just because of cost, I'm rethinking of buying these. Looking at Hella 500FF with the clear stone shields. (Good optics too, from what I can tell.)

 

[irsa76]

A guy I know just replaced a pair of Jumbo 320s for 2 pairs of Cibie Oscar SC on his Volvo FH16. His Hellas were the normal halogen version and he reckoned the beam was "average". Much prefer the beam patterns from the Cibies, 1 pair long range "spot" and the other pair the wide "cornering" beam. Same combo I had, with 1 pair, when I ran Oscar SCs. Personally I'm not real happy with Hella beam patterns from their rectangle lights, had a pair on the wife's car.

 

[Lightdoctor]

Well, I went with the Hella 500FF's instead...it came down to cost. I also went with CPI 55W golds in them...I prefer goldish light...less back dazzle on rural roads in non-inclement conditions.