Anyone familiar with these ? I've wanted an oem shift light for awhile and have been eyeballing these for awhile.
i was wondering, do we just wire these into the tack signal wire from the ecu ? Did the oem ones come connected to a little brain box kinda thing abd then to the ecu ?
thats mY main concern , these ebay ones are a 3x wire so are they able to be correctly wired in then ? I'm wondering about using it in my 2004 mcs and my buddy wanted to put one in his 2009 mcs too so if anyone has any insight on these and or the oem shift lights can you plz chime in. .what are the differences between this and the oem r56 shift light ?
this thing seems to be a good deal and im very interested in it. As of now I only have a Bluetooth shiftlight I bought to try and use but I'd much rather have this oem looking one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ShiftLight-MINI-One-Cooper-S-GP-JCW-F55-F56-RPM-Rev-Shift-Light-/153654230846?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46 890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

 

These are 3D printed replicas of the OEM JCW R56 shift lights. The originals had a separate control box, but were also wired to the ODB II harness with only three wires. Looks like the replica has all of the electronics inside of the shiftlight. Also, the original came with the top of the 2nd gen steering column cover and this is one doesn’t.

The curvature of the cover is different between generations and the OEM 2nd gen shift light would have a gap when mounted on a 1st gen cover. Orranje has different SKU numbers for the different generations, so it looks like they probably designed and print specific versions to fit each column cover. The auction you linked is for the F generation and the Orranje website shows the 1st and 2nd generations out of stock.

I haven’t seen a lot of info out there on them, but I’ve read was a post where a buyer wasn’t happy with the 3D print quality of it and sent it back. Not sure if Orranje has improved the print quality since then, if some refinishing work is necessary to make it look good, or if the un-satisfied buyer wanted an OEM quality finish.

 

Here is their R53 version
https://orranje.co.uk/shop-by-car/bm...ht-r50-r52-r53

They even have the instruction for download in that page.

 

that's the issue I have with mine too..they use the injecting molding so casting flaws are unavoidable and they need to price them to reflect that.. heres the universal one i bought to try. But if I don't like this one I will purchase the knockoffs.

 

Update: I ordered the f56 shift light and it fits on my r53 steering column pretty well. Not perfect but dang close enough..
1x issue with it is ITS WAYYY TOO BRIGHT !! I had to order an inline dimmer switch I'm going to splice in to adjust its brightness.. other than that , I LOVE IT !!!
THAT OBD one i ordered above I couldn't use because it needed the obd2 to not have anything else coming off it which I'm running my x60 gauge so It wouldn't run on a obd y splitter unfortunately.. o well.
orrange got it shipped to me in under a week too ! They're becoming my favorite parts supplier !
btw , the quality is awesome. No defects or anything in the 3d printed body and lights are mounted perfectly even too..im very hapoy with it.