These?


Or these?


With a white 3rd brake light?

 

I got the clear ones off eBay for like, 30 bucks. Love em.

 

I like the ones on the top, but I'm an old guy that grew up with cars having red tail lights.

 

Does anyone think the white ones are ricey?

 

I've been pining over these for awhile at Minimania. Kinda meet the old style/ricey style all in one.

 

White lights would look great on a dark colored car

 

personally, i like the red with white backups. clear taillights are on the scion XB...and every other civic on the road. the red and white are more subtle.

 

actually the whites are turn signals. I like the all clear on a light colored car but there not legal without some red reflectors. But some nice LEDs would be sick in those clear ones, for all around ease and no hassles the red and white ones would be best.

 

To me they are kind of Honda Civic looking.

 

Here's mine with clear OEMs:


obviously I like them.

 

Ah, I'm so torn. Those taillights are hot, jfunk. I want to take my "Cooper" badging off the back, too. And was I thinking of getting those LED bulbs. But then with the white, I have to worry about my car not being legal. I was thinking the red might look more... mature? Or something? But, ah, the white on all black makes the car look so amazing. I already have the white 3rd brake light, and that looks great. Does anyone know how MINI handled the issue of the red reflectors when you could order the car with the white tailights already installed?

 

In 5,7, or even 10 years you wont regret these. Nuff said.

 

The factory offered clear taillights?

 

Those aren't weird enough!

http://www.rspeed.net/mini/item.asp?...4&prod=M20-635

 

Am partial to selection number 1 but you had better hurry. They are discontinued by Mini with limited stock in warehouse.

 

That's alright. Ebay now offers the repro (red/white) ones for $30. I personally wanted to get the red/white ones for so long but wasn't gonna fork over the $350. $275 with my buddies at the dealership. Well...I went for the clear Ebay ones w/LED lights. All 6 of them. Cost me about $250 total. I LOVE THEM. Better than the red ones. Hold on....I'll go snap a pic.............................

 

Man I suck at taking pictures..................

 

OMG! I wouldn't pay more than $10 for those IF they shipped them for free. And even if I did, and they did, I would maybe mount those on a riding lawn mower.

 

Clear Ones always look great!

 

I prefer the red with clear signal spots

 

First off, THANKS! I have had them for about a year now and am thinking of going smoked all around. We'll see...

As fas as factory/dealership fitment. They get you by the short hairs. They install red reflectors in the bumper shell. They charge big $$ for it and for the assembly installs. I did it myself in 10 minutes. I have no red on the back of my car, which is technically speaking not legal, but I haven't been pulled over once for it here in AZ.

It is also way easy to get the OEM ones to fit a 05+ model unlike what MINI says. No wiring needed, just need to remove a bulb inside of them.

And yes to the poster who asked, these were offered through the 04 model year from MINI. Mine were purchased form Aaron at outmotoring.com. in fact it was my write up he quotes in the website listing as to how to install them!

 

I have a clear 3rd brake light on my 06 MCS i wish that there were factory clears for the 05-06 but i heard they had some legal issues with them and thats why there not available anymore.

 

I love the look of your car i am working on trying to find some clear or smoke side reflectors like you have.

 

Thanks again for the compliments. The clear side markers have gotten very hard to find and I don't know quite why.

As far as legal goes. Most states require a "red refelctor to be visible from the back of the car". but as I said I haven't had any issues. I know many other people who have done the same thing and don't have issues.

The change for the 05 facelift is why these aren't offered for the newer cars. All you need to do though to make them fit is this: Buy the lights from outmotoring or wherever. The bulbs in the OEM units are soldered in. Don't ask me why. You need to remove the top ornage bulb and replace it with a clear one. Just use your soldering gun to melt it all off, wiggle the bulb out and put a new 1156 clear bulb in. Then plug them directly into the factory harness. They will look like this once installed:

 

I would go with the clear since your car is black. Make the car stand out a little more.