Having gone to all this trouble, treat yourself to a stunning upgrade.

Before reassembly, remove the orange indicator lamp condom.

Rush to your nearest car accessory shop and buy a pair of Phillips Silver Vision lamps.  These are really neat amber lamps with a fine silver coating so they just look silver until lit up.

You need to grind down one of the locator pins, then they just plug straight in to the normal Soarer socket.

The end result is no more orange splotch in your headlamps!

While shopping, buy 4 Narva 48616BL Arctic Blue lamps to replace your high and low beam.    These are labelled as 60 watts, but the first one I bought to test was labelled as 65 watts with the same part number.  The lamps are identical however, possibly the packaging has been changed to appear to comply with the ADR specifications. 

The high beams are a direct replacement, but you need to trim the two locator tabs closest to the plug for these lamps to fit the low beam socket.  I just snipped them with a pair of side cutters.

Also get the matching Narva 17189BL Arctic Blue parking lamps.   These have only just been released (Jan 03) and may not yet be available near you.

Here is the new parking lamp inserted into the extended socket along with the Silver Vision and normal indicator lamps.  The Silver Vision (left) is showing the amber internal colouring due to the camera flash.   Otherwise they just look pretty much silver.

Refit your "new" headlamp assembly with the new lamps, and notice the difference.  The indicators look so much better immediately, but you will need to wait until dark to really appreciate the high/low beam upgrade.

Before driving, check the colour match, the parkers are the same white as the headlamps, no more ugly yellow.    Now go for a drive, see the difference immediately even in the city on low beam, you can even see the two "tracks" of the low beam in front of the car.

Get out to some isolated road and try the high beam.   The colour is not actually blue, but more of a daylight white with a tinge of yellow colour.  Very easy on the eye, no real glare back at you, but so much brighter with more distance than the standard lamps.

One point here.  Now that your headlamps have more punch, please make sure you check the low beam alignment, if your beams are too high, other drivers will have to deal with it.   Not nice!   You shouldn't be using high beam in range of any visible traffic, so it really doesn't matter if they point up in the trees, that's your problem.

It is all a lot of work if you do the entire process, but the satisfaction makes it all worth while.

The one on the right has the new "clear" indicator.

Enjoy!