As Flak Monkey suggests, changing the headlamps out to ones with a sidelight in them is the best solution. I did the same on my 2nd gen, 7" for a Mini works perfect, paid about £30 - £40 delivered, with all bulbs included. Need to splice some wires but only takes an hour to sort out the wiring. The front is dual filament as you suggest. There are 2 wires, brown and blue. Blue is the indicator and brown is the running light, if i remember correctly so just cut the brown wire, run it to the new clear sidelight and add a ground.
My 3rd gen passed its MOT for years with Amber running lights, same guy and this year he picked up on it.
Interested in the exhaust note too, they do rub on the exhaust by (bad) design on dual exit exhausts. I added some brackets to help guide the cable to avoid rubbing the exhaust. I can take pics if it helps, i did it to get rid of the clanging sound.
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Another one that got picked up by previous testers was the play in the rear axle shafts, as this is normal but many don't like it..
I had the same on the 3rd gen MOT this year, luckily a guy the tester knew was walking past, the tester asked him to come and have a look and the guy walked half way and said "that's a floating axle that's normal" and that was that, so that was lucky. Nice that there are people about that know this stuff off the top of their heads. Otherwise, it would be quite a conversation explaining rear axles and how they work
