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The main difference as compared to the MINI xenon headlamps available ex works is the reduced light flux of 2,000 lumen. This makes it possible to install the headlamps without retrofitting the headlamp cleaning system and using manual range control. By contrast, the 35-watt xenon headlamps available as an optional extra can only be fitted with an automatic height control function due to legal specifications.

Globally unique: increased safety when driving at night with retrofit 25-watt xenon headlamp.
MINI is now the world's first automobile manufacturer to offer a retrofit xenon headlamp with an output of 25 watts and manual height adjustment. This gives owners of a MINI, MINI Clubman, MINI Convertible, MINI Coupé and MINI Roadster a low-cost option to add a highly effective and efficient light source to their automobile at a later stage. In terms of quality, luminosity and range, the retrofit headlamps are identical to the xenon light available for MINI as a special equipment feature ex works. They also offer a much longer service life and lower energy consumption than the standard halogen lamps.
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#2 ·
So what is needed is for someone to pay the big bill for these 25W xenons and then compare them to the standard halogens, to see if they really are a big improvement. It would seem to me that light output was a big reason for getting xenons, so reduced-output xenons may defeat that purpose.

But then I guess many owners are concerned with how things look, not how they work.
 
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Hello. I own two Mini R56 Xenon headlights and am trying to install them on my Mini One (58 plate). Although the indicators work perfectly fine, the Xenon bulbs will not turn on at all for the dipped or full beam. The picture attached shows a plug which I do NOT have a connector for, which could be why the Xenons will not turn on.
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Any solutions? Many thanks :)
 
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