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Apial · Oct 3rd, 2001, 04:02 PM

If I head off on a MINI adventure to France do I have to buy new headlamps or are converters available?

baldie · Oct 4th, 2001, 04:00 AM

You will have to go back to your dealer who will be able to set the beam to the right electronically.

So I believe anyway - ask your dealer.

Dave

Apial · Aug 5th, 2002, 02:00 PM

Has anyone done this yet?

MarkL · Aug 5th, 2002, 05:41 PM

The manual suggests that you can get a masking tape kit from your dealer to adjust the beams.

(Not available from my dealer back in December when I took MINI to Cologne, so I relied on the standard trick of covering the deflecting parts of the lens with insulating tape.)

Viscount Charles · Aug 6th, 2002, 08:40 PM

I heard it from the headlamp manufacturer that there is a masking kit available from BMW dealerships.

The sort of stickies availabe from Halfords and the ferry ports are not suitable.

Early rumours of an electronic switch conversion (put about by me) were wrong - apparently that's the new MGF's trick, not the MINI's.

Oct 3rd, 2001, 04:02 PM	#1
Apial MINI2 Master Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Lincolnshire Wolds Local Time: 04:56 AM Posts: 825 Offline	Headlamp Converters If I head off on a MINI adventure to France do I have to buy new headlamps or are converters available?

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baldie MINI2 Regular Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Scotland Local Time: 03:56 AM Posts: 113 Offline	Headlamp Converters You will have to go back to your dealer who will be able to set the beam to the right electronically. So I believe anyway - ask your dealer. Dave

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Viscount Charles MINI2 Senior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: uk Local Time: 03:56 AM Posts: 449 Offline	I heard it from the headlamp manufacturer that there is a masking kit available from BMW dealerships. The sort of stickies availabe from Halfords and the ferry ports are not suitable. Early rumours of an electronic switch conversion (put about by me) were wrong - apparently that's the new MGF's trick, not the MINI's. Ordered my "S" August '01. Arrived July '02. EB with white roof, wheels and stripes, Chili pack, DSC and climate control. Hate those 17" runflats though. Can now be seen all over the West Midlands, as a blue blur passing everything at speed

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Aug 5th, 2002, 05:41 PM	#4 (permalink)
MarkL MINI2 Regular Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Abingdon, Oxon. Local Time: 04:56 AM Posts: 227 Offline	The manual suggests that you can get a masking tape kit from your dealer to adjust the beams. (Not available from my dealer back in December when I took MINI to Cologne, so I relied on the standard trick of covering the deflecting parts of the lens with insulating tape.)

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