So, my doctor gave me the go-ahead to take the Mini out. He was not over-joyed but my shoulder is coming along nicely (at this point my right shoulder hurt so bad that I was still in an arm chair taking pain pills to sleep... this one is already at near 100% range of motion) and it was obvious I was not going to be restrained much longer.

The new rear bumper cover is almost ready. In the meantime, I want to replace the yellow outside bulbs with either silver/amber or led bulbs. I really don't like the search here, so this may have been answered already, but I can't find it. I looked online but I am not sure exactly what a scuttle light is actually called

Will LEDs work without problem in turn signals and markers? And what bulb types go in the scuttles and in the lower lights on the front bumper?

Thanks!

 

So I replaced all the bulbs in my tail lights with LEDs. Insanely bright and they work great.

Okay, no they don't. Easy mods are never easy and are always a PITA.

Anyway, the flashers fast flash - but of course new Mini's don't have flasher relays, so in order to fix the problem I need to wire resistors into the tail lights.

I can do that, but do I want to? I resist screwing around with a perfectly good electrical system. Kind of how I feel about jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. Any thoughts or opinions?

 

I had to wire in a resistor on my '04 R53 to stop the hyper flash.....worked fine. I can try and find you my rear tail, brake & turn bulbs that I used in my car if interested. I have not changed my front bulbs to LED's.....yet

I also put LED's in the side scuttle signals and it worked fine without a resistor

I used these for the side scuttle turn signal --> https://www.ebay.com/itm/4x-T10-194-...IAAOSwUpFcCIEy

Bryan

 

Thanks. I guess I'll put in the resistors. I just hate mucking with perfectly good wiring.

I was going to go that route on the scuttles, but the lenses were totally whack so I just replaced them.

 

I replaced my side scuttle lenses also....I didn't like the white lens on a black car, so I went with the darker smoked lenses with the LED bulb inside.....I did this to both my cars

Bryan

 

That looks great! I like the smoked look on the darker car. The dark scuttles look nice too...

 

Have them on my Dark Silver '04 also....kinda hard to see...but at least they are not white anymore.....

Bryan

 

Looks good on silver too!

What wheels are those?

 

Motegi's......17".......and have Motegi's on the R52 as well, also 17's......both cars were purchased with the wheels already on them

Bryan

 

The black car is supposed to have the chrome side scuttle vents with the red "S" on it. I saw a picture here in the forum showing an early version of a JCW car that had the JCW badge in the R50 scuttle vents. So I found a couple of the R50 vents and added my own JCW badge to each one. I got the badges from overseas, and I do like the way it looks with them on the car instead of the stock chrome "S" version.

I may take them back off and paint the vents a gloss black to match the car's exterior paint

Bryan