I have the Hella 3rd brake lamps. They are very well made units: the light can be tilted within the housing and the wiring can exit top or bottom.

Lee at Minibitz in New Zealand has given great service on supplying this more difficult item.

I will have a Hella 3rd brake lamp for you from Mnibitz in just over a week. For your Inspection do a temporary one from a truck parts place like I described. You can also get reflective tape at a truck parts place- Fleet Brake would be my source. I am in Calgary and ran a mini through the inspection process 2 years ago.

let me know how to contact you.

Thanks for the help and suggestions folks.  I'm located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada if that helps.

Looks like it will have to be a third party center mount stop light.  Seems like the rover light is widely unavailable.  Safety wise a LED light mounted light closer to top of rear window is the right choice (hopefully not too ugly or out of character).

Reflectors stuck on the side of the car will get me through inspection (not front an back).  I'll look at getting custom reflective "mini' stickers cut and stuck on the sides.  The existing orange lamps will get re-wired.

Just checked 4.21 of the Regs and don't see any changes there but the actual inspection manual may have been changed. Ours was inspected about 4 years ago and it passed then with stick on reflectors on front fender and rear fenders.

As mentioned previously it is a requirement that any vehicle registered in NZ after 1988 requires a "high stop brake lamp". I regularly fit these to new imports. We have continuous registration here so if a vehicle's registration is not paid for over 12 months the car gets wiped from the database. The registration can be reinstated but one of the requirements of the re-compliance process is to fit a high stop lamp. If the car was registered prior to 88 without a hight stop lamp that is fine, as long as the registration is not allowed to lapse.

If anyone needs help I'm happy to source and ship if required.

There should be tonnes of the CA spec side marker lights around as they were fitted from the MID 70's on all MINIS sent to CA.  They are the same as fitted to the rear side of Midgets and SAAB Sonnets also.
Do you need them on the front and rear sides to pass?

I find it odd my Jap MINI was not required to have a third brake light ( or they missed that ).  They actually missed the fact that it had Left Hand Traffic only headlights ! ( check yours )

Minerva.....I think you should replace that third brake light with a lower profile one......yours takes up a whole heap of window

Lighting regs in BC have changed again, just a reflector on the sides won't cut it, they have to be lamps with built in reflectors now. I don't know where you are, but a heads up for BC.

 

I typically wander around the wrecking yards until I find something I like, then I get the lamp and the wiring. Also, I have a set of the Canadian spec 70's marker lamps tucked away for my next Mini import

Yes, like I said, you can spend a lot f time walking through a wrecking yard without finding a 3rd brake light that is a decent fit.

If you look in the top right corner you can see what Craig Hunter installed for the 3rd brake light. Stick on reflectors will get yoiu thru the inspection.

Thanks Alex. I had searched their site for BRAKE LAMP, not STOP LAMP. 

It is NLA. 

I think I called Daniel Stern once and they had no stock at the time. Hella in NZ had no desire to sell me a few. I think I saved their email as an example of how to not be in business.

The Hella third brake lights are available here, you would want model #38.

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Alex - I had no idea. Can you get an image of one?

Rick Hunter did this to his Clubman Estate. He found some small side lamps that fitted into the fender flares and blended nicely, i think he did a 3rd brake light too to pass Inspection in Canada.

An MPi Mini should have a high-level brake light fitted as standard.

In order to pass an inspection I took a large truck stop/signal lamp from Grote that normally goes into a rubber socket and used 3M two sided moulding tape to fix it to the rear window. It was made to be temporary till I found a nice aftermarket third brake lamp. The following day, I looked at it and decided it wasn't too bad and it has been there ever since. I was in a wrecking yard the other day and saw NO 3rd brake lamps that looked like a decent fit. Hella still do make a nice one, but they seem to only sell it in New Zealand.

I would do that, and fit whatever reflective tape needed to pass the inspection as necessary, and then make choices at your own pace later on. A better lamp where the repeater is above the front fenders would be nice, but something like was fitted to the Canadian minis in the late seventies would be, uh, stylistically challenging.

Where in Canada are you? There are likely to be mini folks around who would be keen to help.

I'm in the process of importing a 1999 MPI from The Netherlands to Canada.

Two issues I need help with before it passes inspection and gets on the road; there must be something reflective on sides of car and it needs a center mounted third brake light.

Is anyone aware of an aftermarket version of the side indicators on the front wings which is reflective?  My lazy option is just to paste reflective stickers on the sides.

How about a nice center mount brake light which would go inside the car either on the roofliner or mounted on the rear parcel shelf?

thanks for your help