Before you consider any audio upgrade you need to identify if your car has the Harmon Kardon upgrade fitted or not. Ultimately if you intend on rewiring it all it doesn’t matter, otherwise it will.
I upgraded the speakers on my old R52 with some from vibe the thing to note is the rears are 6 inch not 6x9 line the R53 etc
I also put a pioneer EVO-62 head unit in it which is double din in a single din slot, the screen sits proud but it fits nicely between the speedo and heating controls
Some pics here in my old thread of the speaker install etc
I’ve mentioned this car a few times in the thread about my R53 and so as to not get confused between work done on this and the other one I thought I’d start a new thread this was the first mini I bought and the one which caused me to get the cooper S as I wa buying bits for it and found the...
HU is already decided, a few years ago my wife bought me a Pioneer P99rs, so that should go in (best SQ HU ever, 3 way + sub crossovers, time alignment and most importantly, independent left and right 31 band equalisers)
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