Here is mine. All went according to plan and thanks to 07BPB for answering a PM before I got started..

 

Here is another shot.

 

That looks good on the halogens as well. I'm waiting on a friend to lend me his heat gun. I'm going two tone on mine, pepperwhite and matte black

 

Very nice! I really like the change it makes to the look of the Cooper.

 

Glad it worked out for you N2MINI. Looks fantastic.

 

from what little I remember, I think the original person to do this idea was someone named Joey in a Mazda or Subbie forum many years back From there, it spread to Mini people... and there have been examples of "joey mods" on Coopers for ages.

 

The pics look GREAT. I've been thinking of doing this for years... I think your shots have finally put me over the edge. I need to get some stripes and clear bra redone this summer, and now I might as well launch into the joey mod.

Well done! Thanks for the picture share

 

Here is mine

 

Thanks all, I'm really happy I finally got the guts to do it..
That is the hardest part, just diving in with both feet..

 

Nice! I like the black rings as well. I haven't made up my mind on my chrome rings yet.

 

The beauty of vinyl just pull it off if you don't like it!!!!

 

How did I miss this? Great write up Dr. Phil.
the facelift lights are easy, I did SinMinis on the garage roof at palace station
mine:


my wife's:

 

I bought an 05 headlight to practice dismantling ( it was broken ). edit.. I took it apart and it was way too easy lol. oh well, good practice.

I didn't even heat the light up at all. Just pryed slowly. It came from Colorado and it was 80 degrees plus here so maybe that
is why it seperated so easily. I think I'm going to paint just the surrounds to start and see if I like that.

 

Might look cool all white, but I'd probably do one part or the other in black...
or another color to get some contrast in there..

 

Now I just need the door handles I ordered from Aesthetic Creations so I can paint the surrounds, door handles, gas cap and scuttles. Then I will stop the madness hehe yeah right.

S4!t I just found this old thread from Ninjae and I don't know that I really like the all white lol. Wow I am confuse :/

 

Those look great

 

I have pics of my two tone pepper white and matte black posted on this page, check those out

 

I'm not sure if this has been added, but I wanted to mention it. When I was opening up my headlight I would heat with a heat gun the black housing and actually push down on the clear lens behind the ring. What I found was if you tried to work the black housing you would damage it and it wouldn't look "pretty". But since you were not heating the clear lens, it would not melt or deform when applying the pressure. It made for a clean open of the headlight. Just thought I would pass it along.

 

I have taken the xenon light apart several times. I noticed you can pop the lense out of the xenon and paint that little black ring you see inside the lense. I haven't done it yet but thought it was worth mentioning. Just a hassle to get the medal ring back on there but it's not too hard. So do it and post a pic hahaha

here is a good reference. the black ring in the lense inside the red part

Wondering what it would look like with the lights on at night. probably not noticeable with the lights on..?

 

that's my car and no the color is not noticeable at all at night if that is what you mean as you can see in this animated gif of my lighting

 

Thanks for the how to. I just did this on my car and it turned out great:
When reassembling, watch out for extra goo at the bottom of the lens and large interior reflector. this part will be visible above the chrome headlight ring. I had to take mine apart again on one side because there was visible goo.

 

Looks good. Oddly familiar too. :P

 

I would like to say it was my original idea (I already have other red accents on the car making it an obvious option) but I am pretty sure I saw your photos before deciding, so credit is due where credit is due.

 

Thanks to this thread I had the nerve to do this over the w/e, and because of this thread it was suprisingly easy, and yes I think the heat gun method is the only way to go, if you run into a trouble spot just add a little more heat there.

I also did the led addition as shown here:
https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...eadlights.html

And because of my car color I decided to keep the high beam surrounds chrome.

I did want to add some thing for those who are still a little leary about doing this, because honestly once you get one apart and actually see how it goes together it's really suprising easy, you basiclly just have to get over the fear of doing it.

See the lip in this pic.?

This lip runs all around the entire bucket, that is where you apply your heat, once it gets warm enough to sofften the "goo" you can take your screwdriver and start to seperate the lense from the bucket simply by twisting the screwdriver, not really prying on it, once it starts to seperate you can just do the rest by simply pulling it apart with your fingers. (if it doesn't seem to want to come apart, or you have a stubborn spot, odds are you just don't have enough heat yet)

Here's another shot of what a seperated lens looks like with the goo all over the lip that gets inserted into the slot in the bucket:


Have fun with it, it's not that bad & don't forget to work on something soft as to not scratch your lense.

And don't forget!
Don't go crazy & clean the goo off of either the lense or the bucket, you need all of it there for proper re-assembly.

 

Cool, good tips for everyone. Any pictures of the completed job?