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[freshairmini]

Model:Rover mini cooper 1275
Year:1990

Can you fit xenon headlights to this mini? IF so is there any kits that anyone can recommend??

[jay30]

Take a look at MOSS. They have just released a kit for £150. Looks very comprehensive and being MOSS should be a quality piece of kit.

[chappy]

you can fit H4 xenon filled bulbs if you have the right glass fronts, (if you have the original sealed beams you'll need to buy new fronts/lenses (about 30 squid))

[shorty]

buy the wipac quadoptic headlights and buy xenon bulbs for it..all can be bought from minispares

[lrostoke]

Just did a search on ebay for halogen conversion kits and theres a few on there that fit classic 7" lights .. That come with the Xenon bulbs. Around £30 mark for the kit.

http://cgi.ebay.co.u...id=p3286.c0.m14

[freshairmini]

buy the wipac quadoptic headlights and buy xenon bulbs for it..all can be bought from minispares

So you dont have to buy anything else apart from the bulbs themselves and the wipac quadoptic headlights, and that should work?

[shorty]

the wpiac quadoptics from minispares are the halogen conversion headlights. they come with halogen bulbs
but in order to run them as xenons just buy the appropriate xenon bulb for them and jobs a good'un
believe minispares stock both of the things..but haven't check in a while

[JamesGodfrey1992]

You Can buy a hid coversion for the classic mini of moss-europe.co.uk

[freshairmini]

the wpiac quadoptics from minispares are the halogen conversion headlights. they come with halogen bulbs
but in order to run them as xenons just buy the appropriate xenon bulb for them and jobs a good'un
believe minispares stock both of the things..but haven't check in a while

yeah just had a look and they have both. also some of the other kits ive looked at say that the bulbs have like a relay in them so they can do hi and lo beam, do you know if the ones on there do?

[shorty]

urmm not sure

i have the wipac headlights but only with halogen bulbs...yet to fit them but it says nothing about a relay.
however some people suggest adding a relay in...not to clued up on that matter though sorry

[m1tch]

For the reflector style headlights you have to have either the bulb moving, or a lens moving to change the beam pattern to make them road legal, you will also need self leveling headlights and headlight washer jets to also make the HIDs legal

[freshairmini]

For the reflector style headlights you have to have either the bulb moving, or a lens moving to change the beam pattern to make them road legal, you will also need self leveling headlights and headlight washer jets to also make the HIDs legal

really so you can just buy some new headlight units and puts some xenons in them?

[bmcecosse]

Xenon bulbs do not make Xenon headlights! They are just 'look-a-like' Xenon! Yes - they may have a tiny amount of Xenon in them - but they are NOT the real Xenon hedalights - which as has been pointed out require the self levelling and the washers.

[Matrix]

The issue with retro fitting HID lamps to any car is surrounded in confusion...some brand new cars aren’t fitted with a auto wash system as it states for them to be legal but still have HID lamps fitted! it's all very complicated and contradictory. If the headlamps are out of alignment they will fail the mot...but that goes for any type of headlamp! The only legal way to have HID headlamps is if they are fitted at the factory by the factory. No off the shelf HID lamp is type approved! Most kits do comply with all the E approvals but not type approval. You would have to be doing something silly in your car to get pulled over by the police or the headlamps out of aim thus dazzling oncoming traffic. Mine have been on for 6 month and one mot now without any problems.

[freshairmini]

Ile just put them ion and see what happens, i can always just put some normal halogens back in if it becomes a problem.