1st Gen R50 Cooper Most liked posts in thread: R50 driving lights.

Hella Black Magic with Outmotoring bracket!

 

I removed my OEM driving lights and installed Cibie Tango driving lights. Look in my garage. The look is almost identical to the originals with well over twice the usable light.

 

Those oem driving lights are the equivalent of automotive jewelry. All bling & no function. Hella 500 driving lights are not bad & I'm sure they outshine the oem by a long way. Piaa also makes a smallish light that would work well on the oem brackets you have. The Hella 500's may be too large for the brackets you have. I think the lights would bounce about.

My Hella 500 driving lights are mounted on Outmotoring brackets. They are nice & very stable. I have them wired to work with the high beam switch. I wish I could find a suitable bracket to mount them on top of the bumper. I think they light things up better up there.

 

I am not a fog light guy but I have see others wire up Hella 500's and they are bright. :eek6:

 

You have a fine looking R50 yourself. Best of luck deciding on the driving light upgrade!

 

This thread is making me miss my old MINI...

 

Rally Lights

I purchased a pair of rally lights from Mini Mania and I am impressed with the output of them. (I use them as a daily light by hooking them up to the orange wire inside the headlights and replacing the bulb with a 24w 12v h3 bulb) I find the 55w bulb is way too powerful.

I have the pictures of them posted on "my garage"

 

I just finished mounting Hella FF500 lights on the out motoring brackets. I tried to mount them in the uppermost position, but found on my car there was a clearance problem with the bumper so I used the middle position which worked perfectly. Hindsight being what it is, I could have / should have just trimmed the inner (unseen) edge of the bumper and all would have been well. It didn't even occur to me at the time!!! Really pleased with the output.