MotoringFile MINI’s New Halo LED Foglight Make a Surprise Debut?

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    #1 JoeClubman, Apr 18, 2013
    A few weeks back at this year’s Geneva Motorshow an MF reader noticed something odd about the fogs of the R56 hatch on the MINI stand. The Foglights were completely different and 100% LED rather than the standard bulbs. A closer look revealed even more. They were fully LED, and illuminated in three ways: the [...]

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    #2 Dave.0, Apr 18, 2013
    Kind of looks cool, but then again it's just one less thing MINI and one more thing BMW.
     
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    #3 Crashton, Apr 18, 2013
    I was thinking it was rather BMW myself....
     
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    #4 wmwny, Apr 19, 2013
    Agreed. I guess if some would rather get a Bimmer, they could go with the "cheaper" models and get their LEDs and all would be "well"....:devil:
     
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    #5 Firebro17, Apr 19, 2013
    Or, just get yourself one of each (a Beemer and a MINI) and leave well enough alone...
     
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    #6 Dave.0, Apr 19, 2013
    The knock off's of those will be all over flee bay in a few weeks if not already.
     
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    #7 Jason Montague, Apr 19, 2013
    :cornut: Just as an experiment I once changed Margi(08 R56 BRG MCS/JCWm) out to LED parking and fog lights. I didn't like them as much as the brighter incandescent bulbs. Also the 'burned out bulb' idiot light on the dash stays on as the LEDs don't draw enough current so the computer thinks that they are burned out. PITA! Yeah, for me, incandescent is brighter and hassle free.:Thumbsup:

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    #8 Angib, Apr 21, 2013
    It looks like this is or will be a Mini upgrade kit - someone in the UK posted the part number 63122338554. Excluding sales tax, the UK price for the kit below seems to be $440.
     

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