Joey mod

I have seen that mod on NAM, like the looks of it, but havent gotten the guts up to do it myself, I would be interested in hearing peoples experience with it as well

'11 Justacooper Midnight black//HK Visualboost//JCW Crossbrace//

I am a little hesitant to do this without having successfully done it on my own car.

The threads that I have read have shown that there is risk to doing this in such as:

Difficulties in cracking open the lenses and re-gluing them without looking amateur;
Visibility of excess glue/sealant;
Water penetration, rust or discoloration due to insufficient application of glue/sealant.

I tried to joey mod my tail lights but gave up when the housing cracked when i tried to split it apart. There was no actual damage to the plastic parts, but there would have been an obvious and visible imperfection that would have driven me crazy.

I ended up putting external tint over the tail lights. (It does make the lights a little darker...I'm looking for brighter bulbs that won't melt the housings. Any suggestions from anyone?)

There was a guy on NAM recently who was selling his Joey modded headlights that were painted in dark silver, the body color of my MINI. I was tempted to buy them, but he would have wanted my headlights in return, and in the pictures, it looked like there was some haze on the inside of the headlights.

Plus, if they looked professional in appearance, I doubt he would be motivated to sell them... even if he was selling the car, it would have looked great and a potential buyer probably never would have noticed.

Edited by CORNERS - February/03/12 at 6:13pm

Kurt / '04 R53 / 244HP / RMW head&cam&tune, Quaife LSD, 17% pulley, GP intercooler, Miltek header&exhaust, H&R, Wilwood BBK

I saw this comment in the above thread for pre-facelift Xenon headlights that give me pause:

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Yep. I tried to joeymod my 04 headlights (pre-facelift)

the black plastic gets soft before the headlight glue.

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I might be open to helping someone do this on a 05-06 but damage/breakage seems a high probability for 02-04 model years. Must be different type of glue.

Kurt / '04 R53 / 244HP / RMW head&cam&tune, Quaife LSD, 17% pulley, GP intercooler, Miltek header&exhaust, H&R, Wilwood BBK

If I have too much money at the end of the month (haha), I'm seriously considering just buying some 05-06 headlamps - the failure rate for the 02-04 is high, and the 05-06 would look so much nicer Joey-modded than the 02-04 anyway.

If I do that, I might have a spare set of 02-04 for sale if someone wants to try it out or do a Xenon conversion...

Kurt / '04 R53 / 244HP / RMW head&cam&tune, Quaife LSD, 17% pulley, GP intercooler, Miltek header&exhaust, H&R, Wilwood BBK

sweet! can't wait to see the results! the joey mod is such simple thing but it changes everything about how you see the car.

Nice. It looks a little louder than I was imagining, but probably will still do it this way.

Kurt / '04 R53 / 244HP / RMW head&cam&tune, Quaife LSD, 17% pulley, GP intercooler, Miltek header&exhaust, H&R, Wilwood BBK