Interior/Exterior Interior and exterior modifications for Cooper (R50), Cabrio (R52), and Cooper S (R53) MINIs.

Interior/Exterior tinted lights and painted grill.new look ...

Old Oct 30, 2011 | 10:07 AM
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tinted lights and painted grill.new look ...

I tinted my parking lights and my fog lights and plastic dipped my grill . Not really.a.fan of chrome. Came out good. What u guys think ??

Old look


New look




Soo what do u think ..
 
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 10:32 AM
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Well personally I'm not a fan of tinting a lights on a car because to me it looks ghetto and is definitely a hazard when done to the rear lights and headlights.Its dangerous at during the day to have tinted rear lights because then people can barely see when you are breaking and also it is dangerous at night if the car is parked because the reflective surface in the light housing is being covered and will not shine in a passing by cars headlights. But, the grill looks nice.
 
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MiniAJ
Well personally I'm not a fan of tinting a lights on a car because to me it looks ghetto and is definitely a hazard when done to the rear lights and headlights.Its dangerous at during the day to have tinted rear lights because then people can barely see when you are breaking and also it is dangerous at night if the car is parked because the reflective surface in the light housing is being covered and will not shine in a passing by cars headlights. But, the grill looks nice.
Well as u can see I didn't do my headlights or tail lights. Just my parking and fog. It's a don't that when the light is on u can see it really good. It wasn't spray tint ...
 
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 10:41 AM
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Yes i did see that you didn't do the tail or headlights.Your car looks good tho. Just giving my $.02
 
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 11:29 AM
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I like it! I think black headlight rings would complete the look.
 
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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 11:34 AM
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Yeah I'm thinking about that .. not sure yet how it will look
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 05:01 PM
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Definitely plasti-dip the headlight rings. If you don't like it, peel themz off! IMO makes the electric blue on the car pop so much more.

courtesy of lilbaybt228 on here for the photo
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 05:26 PM
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That looks like my car.....except I have the aero front and bonnet strips (which I have finally decided to take off). The black headlight rings really do look good.
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by LAMARR -s53
Well as u can see I didn't do my headlights or tail lights. Just my parking and fog. It's a don't that when the light is on u can see it really good. It wasn't spray tint ...
How DID you tint them??

Looks sweet, +2 on doing the headlight rims...
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:16 PM
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Really like your car man !!! I would do that but I think my white strips my look different. I was thinking of doing black strips. May look better ..
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by selder
How DID you tint them??

Looks sweet, +2 on doing the headlight rims...
Window tint 20% ..cut the circles out and lay them in there. Easy !!
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:26 PM
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My do the gas cap and door handles plastic dip . I want to get the Chrome gone . I hate Chrome !!!
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by LAMARR -s53
My do the gas cap and door handles plastic dip . I want to get the Chrome gone . I hate Chrome !!!
Plastidip is definitely addicting. I've heard mostly negative things about pd-ing the handles. People usually say don't Plastidip things that are used/touched often. But then again, other people have had it on for a long time with no problems. Good luck, sure it will look great!
 
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