You can get whiter lights for the "full beam" as well as the side lights. For "side lights", most people replace these with specially designed halogen bulbs that give off a whiter light (not quite as white/blue as xenon) or LEDs which are something different again. You can however replace the "full beam" with xenon if you so wish, however xenons don't flash as quickly as a halogen bulb does so this isn't ideal. Most of what I have just said applies mostly to the standard driving lights "dipped beam". The legality of these kits is a fiercely discussed topic on here. You can buy "HID kits" or "xenon kits" which allow you to adapt your standard halogen headlamps to take a xenon bulb and they also contain a wiring adaptor and the ballast module (the transformer thing I mentioned above). Halogen lights are bog standard lights that all cars have had for the last twenty or thirty years before xenons came in. To do this means the headlight unit itself must be quite considerably different, with different wiring and basically a 'transformer' which steps up the voltage from the 13-14v your car runs at to however many volts the xenons need. They require a lot more than 12v to give the amount of light and temperature of light they do. Mostly these type of lights use bulbs with xenon gas inside the bulb, hence these lights getting called 'xenons'.
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