Superbrightled's notes say canbus LED's will not eliminate hyperflashing: https://www.superbrightleds.com/blog...led-bulbs/293/. They are meant to eliminate "bulb out" warnings (on the dashboard). However, 1st gen MINI do not have bulb out warnings — a brake light can go out and you'd never know unless you checked.

So the way I understand it now, canbus bulbs do have a built-in resistor to defeat a bulb-out check (not relevant for an R53), but it isn't enough to eliminate hyperflashing.

 

Yeah, I should have done more reading when I bought them. So I guess my only options now are to either wire in load resistors everywhere or turn off the bulb check with some software.

 

I tried the front bulbs mentioned above from superbrightleds.com. They did not work for me. did not light up at all and the rest of the lights on the car "hyper-flashed". I got these from Amazon, and they work great. Also, they are VERY bright.


Good luck!

 

Yeah, they didn't work because the polarity is reversed. You got those for front and rear? What did you get for the side?

 

I tried some 'canbus' LED's in the license plate and experienced the hyperflashing - while the car was OFF! Unless there's a plug and play system, I'll wait.

 

The license plate bulbs I have from SBL work fine.

https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/license-light-bulb/3710-led-bulb-3-smd-led-festoon-38mm-car/2161/4950/

 

For the sided markers and arch lights, I got:

https://www.superbrightleds.com/more...car/1127/2676/

Red for the rear arch markers and amber for the side markers and front arches. All work fine.

For tail lights, I don't have the stock ones, so I can't speak to the bulbs used there... I have these:

 

I mean the side turn signals.

 

To be specific... The side turn signal... You're talking about the light in the side scuttle on the A-panel. Correct? It takes the same bulbs as are used in the arch lights. For the side turn signal and the front arch lights, I used the amber version of this light:
https://www.superbrightleds.com/more...car/1127/2676/

For the rear arch lights, I used the red version of the same.

Hope that helps.

For the front bumper turn signals (main turn signal lights on the front of the car, I used these:


All work well.
Hope that helps

 

cant you just wire in a capacitor to eliminate the flicker? I did that with my dirtbike HID setup

 

Yes, I have the same bulbs. And yours don't hyperflash? So it sounds like you just have those non-hyperflash LEDs in the front, then these in the side (which will hyperflash), and then halogens in the rear? Your car should be hyperflashing.

We discussed wiring resistors in this thread. You'd have to do it for all 6 bulbs and the resistors get hot, which could damage plastic or paint. There's almost no space for them in the side signal housings anyway.

 

Hmmm... not sure what to tell ya then... No hyper flashing. :/ The rears are not halogens. They are Spec-D LED rear light set. (I have a link to them somewhere in this thread. Those tail lights come with a resistor wired in.

 

I guess the side LEDs aren't enough to trip the hyperflash.