Anyone find and/or switch out halogen parking lights for LEDs? I ask as I have the LED headlights and the Halogen Parking Lights reflect a yellowish glow when on.....if you've found some LEDs and they don't throw an error message...please post where you found them! Much Appreciated....

 

Before I got my mini I did not like the yellowish glow parking lamps with the LED headlamps. I ordered my mini with LED headlamps and LED fog lamps to fix this. My parking lamps are LED. Maybe retrofitting the factory LED fog lamps might be an option. But they might be expensive.

 

Mine has the stock "bug" lights. Does anyone know if there are LED / halogen replacements for the stock bug lights? I don't need them to have a separate switch or anything -- they can behave just like they do now -- just maybe a bulb / ballast replacement / install would do.

 

I had the same qualm and bought these which are a VERY good price, are error free, and are a close (albeit not exact) match to the factory LED lights.

 

Here's a photo so show how they look, sorry it's so bright out.

 

Just ordered them! Thanks, anything will be better than the amber colored ones it came with......

 

Can you please explain to me what the picture shows? Have you switched out the bug light bulbs for the LED's in the Amazon link?

Was it a straight swap?

 

Great! Let me know how you like them? Like I said, they aren't a 100% match, but look far better than the plain halogen bulbs that were there

 

Man oh man, I ordered them yesterday, and they are on my porch today by Noon! Free Shipping at that!
Installed, look 100% better than the stock ones! I did have to trim the base of one down with a box cutter at I could not get it to "seat" properly in the bulb harness......


If anyone is looking for an option to the standard parking lights, and wants a closer match to the LED headlights...these are it!

 

Placing my order tonight.

 

Does the parking lamp housing (top part) look the same as the non-led variety? Just wondering if it's just a standard wedge LED bulb that MINI uses in its place for the parking lamp. If so, then it can be had from the parts dept?

 

Bad News, installed yesterday, and am now getting error code each time a start up..........next?

 

Ruh roh! Mine have been installed for about two months now and haven't had any type of problem with them. I also didn't need to trim anything for mine to fit. Did you get the pack of 4? If so, maybe swap them out until the error goes away. Maybe one of the bulbs is defective, or something messed it up with the trimming?

 

Mine are set to arrive tonight. Hopefully I've ordered the right ones, any chance you can post the SKU for the ones you had ordered, Auguyga?

 

How are yours working out?

 

LOL In the middle of a move, so I haven't had a chance to install them! :-(

 

What's the error code?

Does the LED light turn on at all?

Have you tried inserting 180-deg rotated?

 

Just an update on my end, mine are still working strong with no error codes. Just over 3000 miles on them now.

 

Yellow Triangle with ! inside it, then next to it, it states Parking Bulb


They do illuminate, and look great, just gotta figure out the error code issue. Same thing happened to my Countryman when I switched those parking lights out for LEDs...never got it figured out and after awhile they stopped working so I had to put OEM bulbs back in......

 

Some newer cars have a system that monitors resistance of light bulbs and let drivers know if any of them is blown, but also somehow it turns on error code on the dash when it detects too low resistance. LED lights have much less resistance than conventional light bulbs.

 

I just swapped mine out (all of 5 minutes to do) on my F56 and they are amazing. Now they match the LED headlights better.

I am getting a code thrown so I will have to play with turning them and swapping out to see if anything helps. I am encouraged that someone has them installed without a code being thrown!

Thanks for the link and knowledge.

 

This ^^^^....

What we need is an LED bulb that states "CAN-BUS error free" or words to that effect. These will have a resistor built into the bulb that tricks the ECU.

 

The link I posted above was for CAN-BUS bulbs and I've been running them error free for months now.

 

And that's exactly what Tacoman ordered/installed?

So, what gives???

I was gonna order the same ones for my MCS but now I'm...

 

I have no experience with these LED's and the Mini is the first CAN-BUS vehicle I've owned but one possible explanation crosses my mind: All these LED's are mass-produced in China and as with many cheap electronics manufactured there, it might be a crapshoot what you actually get.

The real way to solve this would be to test the resistance across the poles on of these that does work in this or that person's Mini, then test the resistance in one that doesn't and see what the disparity is (or isn't). It would not surprise me in the least if the you got, for example, a bad load resistor in some of these. Again, this is cheap, mass-produced Chinese electronics with (probably) questionable quality control and (more probably) a high level of sample variation. Just my thoughts.