Heeeeyyyy that's not bad at all.

 

You don't happen to have a full frontal view do you!? It looks really neat, I'd love to see what it looks like as a whole!

-Chase

 

I'd say there's no question about it...DARK SILVER all the way. For the most part, there seems to be a theme with the joey mod....they primarily seem to be body-colored inside.

 

Pure silver with black:

 

That seems to be the trend, i'll probably end up doing the flat DS. Thanks for the post.
Coen, your car looks amazing! It has the perfect stance. Very nice and thanks for posting.

 

thanks for the compliment!! flat DS would look great!!

go for it!

 

I'll be doing it soon.

Now if I can only decide to do my stock ones, or get a couple of the facelift halogens...

 

Coen: I most certainly have to second that statement.
You have an outstanding representative of the Mini community.
Like Partsman said, "...thanks for posting."
BTW -Can we see a wheel shot in the "show us your wheels" thread?

 

If you're still looking for suggestions I would go with DS for sure.

COEN_de_K, your graphics are off the hook.

 

OK, I can't take it anymore!!! I have to do this Joey Mod.
I've looked all over the forums for a "How To," but all that I found was for the R56.
Can someone please PM/lead me in the right direction to where I can find out how to do the mod on an R53? I would also like to know if there are any tricky things to watch out for, like easily breakable tabs and things of that nature.

This mod is distracting me on the job. If I don't get it done, as well as the headlight rings and door handles, I'm gonna go crazy.
Thanks a lot "Shooler"!!! It's all your fault!
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...g?t=1212942677

 

If you have any questions, let me know. The facelift (05-06) xenons are very simple to do. I was able to separate mine without the use of an oven in about 10 minutes. Just take your time so you don't damage any of the tabs, and you will be fine.

 

Thanx Shooler - again great job on your car.
Oh! Who's the girl in the background?
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...g?t=1212942677

 

Thanks! I replied to your PM. I didn't realize she was even in the pic (she is a neighbor).

 

Of course you didn't know. (Just kidding)
Thanks for the info.

 

DS, Black with take away from your Black stripes

 

Shooler,

Thanks for the info on the J-Mod. Looks good.






Forgive the iPhone pics. For those of you with Dark Silver Minis and on a budget, go to WalMart to purchase your paint. (If using Drk Silver) As you can see on the attached pic, Rustolium Metalic paint is very close to the Mini OEM paint.

I was told by "Shooler" to be very patient. I now understand why. If you hear cracking and popping your moving to fast. Yes! Use a heat source to warm up the black rubber seal/adhesive. Do not remove any of the light assembly. If you remove the low beam bulb you'll see 1 each tabs on the Lt & Rt (gray colored plastic) behind the metal heat shield (?). Use a 4-6 inch flat head screw driver to release one of the tabs. After-which the half moon projector lens cover should pop off easily with a little prying. I removed the whole right side light assembly and wasted a lot of time putting it back together.

Oh! Still waiting for my body colored headlight rings.

 

can someone post up a tut. for the joey mod? materials + steps? I want to do a Joey mod to mines when i have the time..

 

Anyone ever get back to ya? I'm almost done ridding my car of chrome and this is pretty much the last step and I definitely want to do it and thinking of going down the route shooler did except mine's Hyper Blue not Electric Blue. I'm thinking of plasti-dipping the guts and minspeed hyper blue the xenon ring. I know people just say heat up the silicone and pry apart but there is definitely more to it than that and would love to see some pictures of the 05-06 headlights taken apart into pieces and how it all comes apart. It would definitely reassure me and ease any anxiety I have over ripping my headlights apart.

Steve

 

Another vote for DS or Flat DS. Black just doesn't look good on DS in my opinion. I find that it only works well on very few cars, color-matched is almost always a better choice.

 

Ah, come on now, black can look good, well at least I like it.

 

I'd go dark silver. Black might look a little like a raccoon.

 

OK, breathing new life into this thread, as I'm DOING IT!
As we speak, as it were...

I will provide photos soon, and there are some details that I've never read about on NAM. I'm going to reveal some secrets here that have never been revealed before--done by many for sure, but I had to re-invent them.

To start, I was never going to put my Xenons in the oven... But a heat-gun, used by many hobbyists to shrink wrap tubing, for example, generates more than enough heat that can be directed to specific parts of the seal. It was **easy**. A little heat, as little leverage between clear plastic lens cover and black plastic housing with cutting the silicon adhesive to ease the release.

Once they are apart, it gets really interesting. But more later when I have photos to help out.

I've been experimenting with color combos...
(i) all dark silver (thanks to Partsman, I got factory paint which is clearly better than anything that comes from any retailer)
(ii) all satin/PlastiDip black -- a little dull.
(iii) dark silver and black mix -- this has to be the way to go, but I tried painting the ring around the projector (with the cool little hightlight around the projector) black--oops. It completely disappeared!
More later...

Oh, by the way, the chrome finish on the internals of the headlamps is about 1 micron thick--just buff with steel wool or green scourer pad, then a swipe with acetone and the white plastic is revealed. There's no problem with refinish here.

End of transmission.

 

That's great that you decided to "do the deed", Phil. I can't wait to see the pics and hear your summary.

 

Well, I am constantly impressed with how easy it is to work on the Mini. Maybe this is true of every car, but the Mini is my "test bench" and no matter how difficult things seem at first glance, in the end it always works out to be manageable. Honestly the Xenons are daunting when looked at as one complete unit, all sealed and weighing a ton, but pulled apart they are like little puppies--just tickle them and they do exactly what you want! (maybe I'm confused with my analogy there...)

Anyway, I will provide the documentary evidence, rely on that!

and thanks Joaquin--the paint is amazingly good.

 

black black black...with plastidip! that way if u dont like it, you can start over!