I love the Retro look of the Mini and finally broke down and bought a set of Yellow Fog Light Bulbs. I thought the install was going to be easy. I was wrong! .

1.) Step one: The inside fender well cap came off in a snap.

2.) Step Two: 1/4 turn on the bulb and it easily slips out the fog light housing.

3.) Step Three: (NIghtmare! ) The instructions state to depressn the two tabs on the side of the socket and the bulb should pull straight out. WRONG! So after 5 minutes of playing tug of war, I figured I would use a pair of pliers to depress the tabs while I pulling the bulb out. Wrong! I crushed the socket and broke the tabs . I stopped at this moment and took a breath. I decided to look at the replacement bulb. I noticed two tabs at the top of the plastic socket (NOT AT THE BOTTOM WERE YOU DEPRESS!).

I took a small flat blade screw driver and simply pryed the top of each tab and viola the bulb came out with no effort . The other side took all of two minutes to install. Luckily the left crushed socket works fine.

I hope this will help anyone who plans on changing their fog light bulbs in the future.

By the way I Love the way the Yellow bulbs look! I will post a picture tonight when you can see them best.

AXO

 

Glad that it turned out okay for you

 

Yikes - sounds like it could have turned into a crappy situ. Like oldsbear said, glad it turned out okay for you.

Looking forward to the photos. I'm planning to do the same.

 

Thanks, I am Lucky the one still works. They are Nokya Artic Hyper Yellow, H8. I bought them on ebay for $22 shipped .They are super bright and so far, I am liking them. I love the Retro look.

Sorry about the crappy Cell Phone Pic. They look much better in person.

 

What wattage are they? And what wattage is the stock ones? Sorry, I don't have my mini yet, but was planning on doing this mod.

 

The yellow ones really do work better than the white in bad or low light conditions....

But please tell me you're not one of those idiots who thinks it's "cool" to drive around in clear weather with your fog lights blazing away!

 

So how do the caps come off in the fender? Just pull or twist or twist and shout.....

 

The bulbs are 35w, the same as stock.

The fender caps are removed by turning the cap a 1/4 turn until the tabs are line up with the notches, then they simply pull out.

 

I am .

 

I personally do not run my fog lights all the time, but I gotta love the honesty in your response

 

Me too. Stock halogens aren't bright enough...

 

Yep great first mod to do. Cheap and simple plus it helps out a lot when driving in the rain at night. Its been raining a lot the last few days on the drive home.

 

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Add me to the always on crowd!
(I use those as DRLs, decreased my close calls by 90%)

(I actually only use the other ones in the rain at night)

 

Question... With the head lights there are two bulbs, one for the high beams and one for low. ( so 4 bulbs total ) With the fog lamps, how many bulbs are there, Because my lower lights are on when the headlight switch is clicked once, then when I hit the fog lamp switch they get brighter at the top part. So is this the same as the headlights. So would I need 4 H8 bulbs and 4 h13 bulbs to get all matching color?

 

Do you have the Bi-xenons?

 

Nope poor quality stock halogens

 

thanks for the tips! I have to replace mine due to a burnt out bulb, but I'm doing both with bulbs that'll match my xenons. I have a 2002 r50 so it'll probably be different. we'll find out in an hour.

 

How do u replace the driving lamp bulb (wedge shape) on top of fogs for r56.
I want to change them to match my xenon mains.

 

Same access panel as the fogs. There are instructions and diagrams in the Owner's Manual.

 

So I have read a great deal of changing all these bulbs to Piaa/Hoen.

Some links mention error cropping up others say they are fine.

Some point to audi forums where (euro style) where errors from these bulbs do occur.

Can someone verify that the H8 hoens/Piaa and w5w wedge bulbs DO WORK without error codes for a 2007 R56 Cooper with Xenon stock headlights.
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