So what pedals do you have and where did you get them?

Pics please.....

 

stocks on mine

 

I do not seem to many options for aftermarket pedals for the mini. All the ones on ebay are for automatics!

Garrett

 

Hamann pedals, barely seen in pic below.

 

How do you like the Hamann Pedals?

Garrett

 

Pedals are pedals to me. Its purely cosmetic IMO.

 

That is very much true! Then again a good set of pedals designed right can help out for heal toe shifting!

Garrett

 

That would be the only benefit that I could imagine. I have had pedals before that were actually slippery when my shoes were wet. That was not good, to slip off of the gas or brake.

 

My Subaru's stock pedals were like that and that can lead to a unwanted accident! Pedals with grip are the cool!

Garrett

 

Ultimate pedals (www.ultimatepedals.com; I'm not trying to imply they're the best...):

 

My next interior mod: Pedals.

I like ahamos' pedals pic'd above. But before I spend $200 or so on my MC gas pedal, brake pedal, and foot rest, anybody else have any suggestions ??

 

I have a set of Hamann pedals sitting in the box and have yet to install them. They are not an easy install, with the drilling and removal of the gas pedal assembly.

 

Were they not made specifically for the car ? The ones from Ultimate Pedals are, so I'm assuming they are easier to install. Maybe ahamos can answer that question.

Thanks !

 

Since you asked...here they are, nice and dirty!

 

I can see enough of them through the dirt to see they're pretty far up there on the cool-o-meter.

 

Ultimate Pedals



Much better grip when wet and 100% better "heal/toe" action because of the modified shape from stock.

 

SumWon, maybe you can answer my question above. That is, how difficult was it to install those pedals from Ultimate Pedals ? Simple, or did you have to do some modifications to make them connect ?

 

I got mine off of eBay a long time ago. Sorry about the distant shot and dirty floor!

 

Sorry, missed your question. They were not too bad. The brake pedal mount is the only one that is metal making drilling it a bit more difficult, but the rest were easy to drill into. The gas pedal assembly is a bit of a bear to remove from the car, but there is a thread floating around here that details how to do it. I was questioning the value of the mod until the first time I really drove with them afterwards. Like I said, wet grip is much better, and heal/toe is so much easier.

Here is a shot showing how much wider the gas pedal is:



Added to this, the gas pedal is bowed in the center bringing it closer to the same height as the brake pedal when engaged. Just a roll of the foot and there is the gas. Very nice.

 

That info was a lot of help, SumWon.... thanks very much and have a nice evening !

 

I didn't bother to remove the gas pedal from the car. I just got wood screws and ran them through the plastic, rather than putting a nut behind the pedal.

In the months since I installed those pedals, I've gone back and removed all the rubber nubbies. They kept popping out, and it's a real ***** removing a pedal just to mash a piece of rubber back into it.

I agree about the brake pedal, though: drilling through metal was horribly difficult. The drill bit wandered a lot, even with tape. My shoulder hurt for almost a week after getting the brake pedal done.

 

I had hear similar reports of problems with "rubber nubbies", that is one of the reasons I chose to go with the non-slip finish instead on mine.

 

I'm just glad I got the all rubber stock pedals on my early 2003 before MINI "upgraded" them to the shiny ones with less rubber.

 

Fortunately, I chose both options. Now I have the frosted anti-slip grip and I actually think the pedals look better. They shipped with silver-headed bolts which looked really stupid surrounded by all that rubber. At one point, I bought a can of rubberizing black spray paint and painted the bolt-heads.

When I gave up on the nubbies, I switched out for flat-head bolts. It's a cleaner look, and nothing ever pops out when I'm hard into a corner.