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Yes, there are the yellow 12V bulbs available in Der Franzose. You can have H4 55/60W type for 6,39 € or classic bulbs 40/45W for 3,29 € each. However they are not allowed for the normal road traffic here in Czech and in Germany not either, as far as I know. So check at first, if the using is legal in your country.
http://www.franzose.de/en/Renault/R4/Leuchtmittel-Gluehbirnen-12-Volt/Page-2/
Beige Belgian
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I've just bought and fitted to some yellow bulbs for my Renault 4. Got them off ebay, seller has more available:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250755194959&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_533wt_1139
and here they are, although did not come out that well in the photo:
Untitled by a7racer, on Flickr
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250755194959&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_533wt_1139
and here they are, although did not come out that well in the photo:
Untitled by a7racer, on Flickr
pepper
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Ahh I remember this thread, and I should have mentioned I also found a replacement set of yellow P45T bulbs, but these are the Halogen upgrade version 
These are similar to the ones I have in my car and boy do they make a difference.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-x-H4-12v-10..._CarParts_SM&hash=item564207340b#ht_500wt_922
These are illegal 100/80's but I found a set of 55/60's which are great!
These are similar to the ones I have in my car and boy do they make a difference.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-x-H4-12v-10..._CarParts_SM&hash=item564207340b#ht_500wt_922
These are illegal 100/80's but I found a set of 55/60's which are great!
When we did a club run to Loheac one of the members fitted yellow lights when it got dark and was raining he had to ring the lead car ( a 750cc renault4CV) to ask him to slow down as he could not see the road to keep up, they look great but do they do the job?
Beige Belgian
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Hi, I had them on when I drove last night in the dark and some of this was on unlit country lanes. They worked just aswell as the clear ones, I have another car with yellow bulbs also and had no problems with that one either.
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There is an interesting thread on this very subject on the BX Club Uk site, in the section BX Chat.
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Its www.bxclub.co.uk and its in the section BX Spotting
Azazello
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I was told that use 55/50 lamp without installing a relais was not good for the electrical contact...
I used them for a while, after this terrible discovering I came back and bought the norml 45 ones.
Andrea scripsit.
mike4gtl
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Yes no differance in brightness. You notice the yellow more in the fog. I paint my bulbs with Granville Headlamp paint http://www.jdmperformance.co.uk/universal.php?subID=333000357&subName=Granville Products
Any classic car or non classic car made before 1993 can have white or yellow lights. Any car build after 1993 has to have white lights. European law
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Apart from the last post, this thread is 9 years old. Yellow 60/55 halogen bulbs with the round base fitting aren't widely available any more. I've got them on my website:
https://retrospecparts.com/lighting...low-55-60w.html?search_query=Yellow&results=9 ,
along with white ones and also the 45/40w option (in both colours) and even the old (typically 1950s) 3-pin bayonet type, (6v or 12v, white or yellow):
https://retrospecparts.com/lighting...-36-36w-6v.html?search_query=Yellow&results=9
https://retrospecparts.com/lighting...low-55-60w.html?search_query=Yellow&results=9 ,
along with white ones and also the 45/40w option (in both colours) and even the old (typically 1950s) 3-pin bayonet type, (6v or 12v, white or yellow):
https://retrospecparts.com/lighting...-36-36w-6v.html?search_query=Yellow&results=9
Lobster
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Thankfully incorrect. Yellow bulbs are completely legal in the UK/EU regardless of age of vehicle, Either white or yellow are OK but other colours are not.
They were phased out in France, which was the last country in Europe to use them in any number in the mid '90s more due to fashion and people considered them old fashioned and that newer cars with more modern lighting systems used standard white bulbs rather than anything else.
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If you want the characteristic "French yellow" ("selective" yellow, to be precise) colour, you can buy yellow glass covers, which clip on over the existing lamp. They clip onto the lip near the base of the bulb and work very well.
By the way, yellow headlights ARE legal in British are, regardless of age, as per the M.O.T. and Vehicle Construction & Use Regulations.
By the way, yellow headlights ARE legal in British are, regardless of age, as per the M.O.T. and Vehicle Construction & Use Regulations.
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Owing to a strange quirk of international law, yellow headlights are STILL mandatory in Monaco, although I very much suspect this is NOT enforced! In the 1970s there Principality of Monaco decided to adopt French traffic and road laws into their regulations, so this made yellow headlights mandatory in Monaco as well. When the E.U. outlawed yellow headlights in 1997, Monaco, NOT being a member of the E.U., was not affected, so at least in theory, was still obliged to use yellow ones..... Although I suspect this rule has been "forgotten"!
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National laws still precedes the dreadfull hopeless incompetent eu government.New build cars and trucks still roll of assembly lines with white, yellow or light blue (xenon) headlights