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Blue light in the footwells

Posted on August 27, 2004February 9, 2017 by Ian C.

I have been following this thread on MINI2 where someone bought blue “cold cathode” lights and replaced the MINIs footwell lighting – the lights are intended to light the inside of “show” PCs, and are bright and a nice color for an Indi Blue MINI.
I found some similar but larger lights at CompUSA (Mad Dog Techie Toyz MD-S-CLK-BU, CompUSA 306945), and decided to install them in GBMINI. Here is the result:

Minolta DSC

“Ooooh” 😉
I found a connector at work that mated to the MINIs interior light wiring, and the rest was easy – just using lots of double sided tape to hold everything in place!

More chrome in GBMINI!

Posted on August 26, 2004February 9, 2017 by Ian C.

My switch rings arrived recently so I picked them up and installed them today – installation is easy and they do look good with the other chrome rings but they are surprisingly pricey (nearly $20 each!):

No more chrome now for GBMINI – unless I see something I like 😉

MINI circuits are back in stock!

Posted on August 24, 2004February 10, 2017 by Ian C.

I just received another batch of 128 auto up windows MINI circuits from CMS; I don’t have a large number of pending names so I expect this batch to last a while.

I hope that someone with an ’05 MINI from MINI Peabody will contact me, so I can install a circuit in the newest MINI design and confirm any difficulties due to the new storage area below the toggle switch panel …

UPDATE: Much appreciation to Luke, who just installed a MINI circuit in his ’05 MINI. He did not remove the utility box trim piece – he simply unlatched it and reached in around it:

NOTE: Luke followed up with this comment: It was a tight fit and I have skinny wrists. I would think it would be much harder for anyone with normal wrists. 🙂 … I will have to try this; I definitely do not have skinny wrists 😉