Halfords are selling a brand of Headlamp Bulb called “Simply”.
Are they an exact match for standard Headlamp Bulbs, hence you could just swap one, or are they different (brighter, different colour temperature etc.), so needing to be swapped as a pair?
No one can say if they’re an exact match other than that they will fit in the same hole and have the same electrical connection. Bearing in mind that output changes as bulbs age, it’s unlikely that you’ll get an exact match but probably not enough of a difference to matter. If it might bother you then, since they’re almost certainly cheap, why not just change both at the same time.
You’ll want to fit a pair of them due to the 6000K colour temp.
In comparison, the Philips extreme vision H7s I use are 3300K and they are whiter than Casper The Friendly Ghost when he won the Daz doorstep challenge.
Well, other than Halfords being just about the most expensive place to buy anything for your car and most of their stock will also be made in China, you’re spot on.
That’s changed then as they used to be the cheapest for bulbs, spark plugs etc. because they got manufacturers to make lower quality and reduced cost products for them so they could undercut everyone else.
I remember my late father (an automotive electrician) bending his Champion rep ears about how he could buy the same spark plug from Halfords as a normal retail customer cheaper than he could buy it at trade price direct from Champion.
The rep’s answer was “You only buy a hundred spark plugs a year, Halfords buy hundreds of thousands and the ones they buy are made down to a lower price by using lower quality materials.”