I am not a big fan of joey modding headlights and found these and curious if anyone has installed them? They come with a halogen and HID mod with cutoff to keep from blinding oncoming traffic so that's a nice option. I am not a big fan of the halo so I would not activate it.

Just curious if anyone has any experience with them?

 

I like! Where did you find them?

 

I've got a set on my r53. For the money they aren't bad. Don't expect factory xenon performance though

 

Too bad they don't make something like that for the Countryman yet.

 

K2 is out of cali. Their products are decent priced. I bought my headlights from them for my 03 Tahoe, no probs. the bulbs within the halo burn out quick, cheap, replaced with better.

 

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I wouldn't recommend those since they fade away on the headlight part. I would say look at different options at this point, such as retrofit projectors.

 

You are right. If you press the bar to hold the high beam all lights go off , only the pull option works.
Also the cut off is very very bad, don't buy them, better retrofit or wait for the MINI oficial retrofit kit.

 

I have these installed on my MINI. If you remove the warning canceller for the high beams, the high beams will work. I guess the car thinks the high beams don't work and therefore keeps the low beams on.

I've used a separate harness with a relay so I don't have a flicker issue like some people report with aftermarket HID kits. However, it is annoying that every time I start the car it tells me both low beams and both high beams are not working, even though I clearly know they do work.

Having said this, I spent about $350 total for my projector retrofit. The factory retrofit costs roughly $1000. I'm not 100% satisfied with what I have, mostly because of the warnings about blown bulbs. The projector cut off isn't ideal, and has a kind of a rainbow effect. But they are dramatically better than the stock halogens.

I did order cancellers for the warnings and once I get them installed I can rework the wiring harness so that the lights stay on with high beams.

All in all, for the cost, they're good. But you have to be willing to be a little creative to make them play nicely with the car, and most people aren't. Also, at the time I ordered my lights, the OEM retrofit kit wasn't even available, so for me it was this or try to build my own with TRS projectors, with which I have no experience. I bought these with the intention of gutting them and using them for a TRS project if they didn't work well for me. As it stands, they work well enough to not have to do that.

 

I got the new factory retrofit with 25w ballast but the output is very low, like 1800 lumens but better than the ebay headlights, the cut off is not that bad but my other cars with factory xenon looks a lot better. I already disassembly one of the headlights and will upgrade the lens and proyector to use it with 55W ballast and the D2S: OSRAM XENARC 66240 CBI. I'll post pics when it's ready