Modern Headlights
dan, is
this a decent headlight for my 2000 jeep cherokee?
Not the worst on the market, but you will see
much better at night if you get
this one instead.
In general, avoid headlamps that are promoted on claims to produce "whiter" light (or "extra white", "super white", etc). That claim is basically a scam no matter what brand is on the product. See
here for detailed info. Nutshell version, "whiter light" halogen bulbs and sealed beams have blue-tinted glass capsules, which blocks some of the light that would reach the road if the glass weren't tinted, so they produce
less (not more) usable light than ordinary bulbs, and in order to get legal-minimum levels of light through the blue glass the filament has to be driven very hard so these bulbs have a very short lifespan. And there's nothing about the tinted light that improves your ability to see—the opposite is true, in fact. All it does is change the beam color slightly, to zero real benefit.
The blue-glass scam is just trying to cover up the brownish light appearance that you get when your headlamp circuit starves your bulbs. In the course of doing so, it blocks a lot of light that would otherwise reach the road (take a look at an orange sodium street light through the blue strip at the top of your windshield...yeah, it looks whiter, and a whole hell of a lot dimmer! This is that.) A
properly-fed halogen bulb burns nice and bright white without any blue-glass shenanigans.
Note Sylvania recently
got spanked to the tune of thirty million dollars(!) for the false "upgrade" claims on their Silver Star bulbs.