Venessa
01-05-2008, 06:37 PM
Hi all sorry for the silence.
Just wondering really if any1 else on here with the new mini has had a power steering pump failure.
Mine failed on me last saturday whilst driving down a rather steep hill and turning left round a sharp bend (lil bit scary) it locked the steering up on me then came back on and spat the car across the road towards a rather nasty drop. It then proceeded to be intermitent. As I was around 150 miles from home at the time I had rather a scary drive back.
Called into BMW dealer on the way home and they recognised the fault without even looking at the car or running diagnostics test on it, so being the suspicious sort I asked if it was a known fault or not to which i got llittle response, have since done some research and have found out alot of people are experiencing the same and due to the fault being intermitent BMW will not cover it under warrany as it could be DRIVER ERROR.
My lovely local dealer also then tried to tell me it would cost £600 to fix it Yep you read it right £600. Told them to stuff it and have since bought a nice new pump for £300 and I will fit it myself.
So really like I said wondering if any1 else has experienced this and just also to let others know of it.
Ness.
Just wondering really if any1 else on here with the new mini has had a power steering pump failure.
Mine failed on me last saturday whilst driving down a rather steep hill and turning left round a sharp bend (lil bit scary) it locked the steering up on me then came back on and spat the car across the road towards a rather nasty drop. It then proceeded to be intermitent. As I was around 150 miles from home at the time I had rather a scary drive back.
Called into BMW dealer on the way home and they recognised the fault without even looking at the car or running diagnostics test on it, so being the suspicious sort I asked if it was a known fault or not to which i got llittle response, have since done some research and have found out alot of people are experiencing the same and due to the fault being intermitent BMW will not cover it under warrany as it could be DRIVER ERROR.
My lovely local dealer also then tried to tell me it would cost £600 to fix it Yep you read it right £600. Told them to stuff it and have since bought a nice new pump for £300 and I will fit it myself.
So really like I said wondering if any1 else has experienced this and just also to let others know of it.
Ness.