Thanks was wondering about that

With LED Angel Eye's as they are often called, you may need to run another fused line to power them up. I have had the opportunity to see some set ups while working in the body shop, and to say the wiring looks similar to a bowl of spaghetti would be an understatement.

To put some  personality into my car I was thinking of some LED lenses with a circular driving light like some of the new cars

I did the aiming as soon as the install was complete. Yeah, a major improvement to night time driving.

Now, if you haven't already, spend the time to aim them properly. Makes a HUGE difference. You can find loads of help online and on Youtube on how to do it. Easy peasy and makes a big difference.

Well, after a summer of rust repair taking precedence over headlights, I finally got this done. The headlights, buckets, and wiring I purchased from our host so long ago actually went together fairly easily. Hardest part was cleaning up the old wires for better color identification.

I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but it was just 2 seconds away from a plug and play installation. The lights are brighter, and focused for American roads.

Thanks gentlemen, I will be sure to get into the lamps ASAP and see what works.

S5819 is a whole assembly with the buckets etc Mur i only needed the lights. I upgraded the bulbs in mine H4 100/90 W and with relays and they are bright enough but i am not 100% happy with the beam pattern but for what i paid they are will do fine.

Our host's part S5819 is a left hand drive assembly with pilot bulb.

Our late model car had turn signal lamps that accepted a Delphi dual filament socket available at an auto parts store that snapped in where the original single filament bulb socket fit. However, after looking at the weathered lenses for a few days I removed them and fitted the large amber fixtures of the later Canadian Mini 1000 era.

I also snipped the terminal off of the power wire for the pilot bulbs and by carefully pulling on them withdrew them from the headlamp bucket to repurpose them to power the park lights.

This car has Sealed Beam style headlamps with H4 bulbs available nearly anywhere for heavy duty trucks, and the headlamp performance is excellent.

I wanted the flat lens headlamps for my car and could not seem to find what i wanted with the pilot light bulb in them in LHD format so i ended up purchasing the ones with just a low and high beam in them. I installed Morris Minor flat clear lens dual filament turn/sidelight lights in place of the ugly (to me) regular turn signals and are the same size and a direct fit and only require a lengthened wire from the headlamp park light wire to the turn signals housing to work.

You could have bought headlamp units with pilot bulbs in LHD headlamp housings. Really, the car should have been converted to LHD oriented headlamps when it came over to North America-assuming that is correct, that the car is now here.

In any case, what do your new headlamps require that may differ from the old ones? The headlamp buckets you purchased should have a wire harness in them, and those wires would connect where the originals connected to the main harness.

Cars that came with pilot bulbs may not have had Front park lamps, and so the small lamps on the front only came on with the turn signals. You can easily route the wire from the headlamp bucket, and using a new socket that takes a dual filament bulb, you can change to turn signal/park lamp in the same fixture.

Ultimately, much depends on the year your mini was actually built.  Later cars from the nineties had relays for the headlights, which means that the switches and high beam/low beam switch carry only. The current to trigger the relays, and the relays carry the larger current to the fixtures, resulting in reliability and brighter lamps. 

As usual, if there are seasoned mini fanatics near to you, they can explain in person what can often take fifty posts on the message board.

Oh so long ago, I purchased a new set of headlights and buckets to brighten up my night time driving. Is there a wiring harness or some type of adapter that can be used to change over from the Lucas lights with the little night lights in them, to USA standard lights? This is the only thing stopping me from getting this done, and any advice would be greatly appreciated. Also, I'm not the greatest at electrical work, so please keep your help/advice simple enough as I really do like to do all I can on my own.