Xenon lights

[marco-sparco]

Well folks. I just recently bought a 02 mini one from the Isle of Man, the car is now over in Northern Ireland. The car came with cooper kit on it, full leather etc, but the interesting bit I thot was the xenon lights up front. It was brought over by a local dealer for me and according to him,the lights are not an aftermarket addition. Could someone help with this, is this a standard feature??? Also the front number plate is square, the whole front section is designed to be square compared to the other minis around the town. Would it be a case that the spec of Isle of Man cars is just different??

Thanks

[beeej]

marco-sparco said:

The car came with cooper kit on it

There's nothing that actually goes by this name. Is it the Aero kit, consisting of side skirts and front and rear bumpers? What year is the car? Got a photo of the car?

marco-sparco said:

was the xenon lights up front. It was brought over by a local dealer for me and according to him,the lights are not an aftermarket addition. Could someone help with this, is this a standard feature???

It's easy to tell if they're the real lights or not. They need to have the washer integrated with it. And they will tilt automatically if the car is going up/downhill (or accelerating very fast!)

marco-sparco said:

Also the front number plate is square

Could be a chav owner who went cruising?

marco-sparco said:

Would it be a case that the spec of Isle of Man cars is just different??

Nope. Same as cars on the mainland.

[marco-sparco]

not sure how to uplaod phots still tryin to figure that 1 out lol The reason i asked the question was i was told the chili pack came with the xenon lights but as the car is only a ONE i didnt think the pack was fitted to them. There is no washers on the lights so must be non standard.

thanks lad

[GTS Turbo]

pop the bonnet and have a look, it's pretty easy to spot aftermarket kits. there basically the same.

if it looks something like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XENON-HID-Kit-H1-9005-h7-HB3...

it's an aftermarket kit. manafacturer kits don't have them type of connectors and tend to be a sealed unit

[beeej]

marco-sparco said:

i was told the chili pack came with the xenon lights

Only on the Cooper S. They look like this:



or like this on later models:

marco-sparco said:

There is no washers on the lights so must be non standard.

Seems pretty likely from what you're saying.

[marco-sparco]

this is what the light on mine look like

[esuuv]

Xenon lights were speccable - i had them on my 2004 cooper, was an addition over the chilli pack, they only came as standard on the S with a chilli pack I think.

[marco-sparco]

thnaks lads. After pokin my head under the bonnet found the connectin wire between the lights so they are deff aftermarket. Still look the part thanks for the help!!!!!