Well, not really, it seems the lens has though. This morning walking out to my car I look at the back at instantly notice somethings not right. My 3rd brake light lens was gone, there's no sign that it's human caused damage (and it was about 12 degrees last night so if someone did do it they're really dumb). It really looks like the adhesive just froze and lost it's grip. It really wasn't that cold so I don't get why this would happen. Has this happened to anyone else? Can you order just the lens from somewhere? RealOEM seems to indicate that it's all one unit. RealOEM.com BMW R53 Cooper S Third stoplamp Maybe now's the time to upgrade to a brake light pulsar too.
Check eBay and dismanlters. I'm sure you'll get one for less if you spend a little time looking. Matt
I'm thinking I'll just get the blacked out aftermarket unit advertised on the Moss site or a similar unit from another MINI vendor I've used in the past, it'll look OK on my car and serve the purpose at about half the price of an OEM replacement unit. All the local yards and dismantlers don't have MINIs and I really don't want to experiment with an unknown supplier while fretting about my car. I'm strange in that knowing the condition of my car is less than 100% causes an unusual amount of stress and manifests itself in weird ways (paranoia that someone seeing my car damaged will take the excuse to inflict more damage).
I've gotten lots of things off of eBay... tachs and switch panels for a small fraction of the OEM price. Worth a look. matt
Hey don't support ebay they don't support the MINI forums. I got a couple good used 3rd brake lights from a couple MINI's we're parting.
Dang, I wish you'd told me that before I'd ordered a replacement smoked unit from another vendor, I did order the pulsar circuit from your store though Way.