1st Gen R50 Cooper Most liked posts in thread: Intermittant Power Steering

To hard to move it out of the garage to tan off the over waxed finish without power steering.

 

Yeah I was going to do that but I changed my mind. I still have the parts sitting down in my toolbox collecting dust.

FYI I can tan in my garage now as its has been carpeted and I have 2 High Output T2 6k florecent lights. (1) 6 tube and (1) 4 tube and the (10) 2 tube 6k T6 dlorcents in a single car garage. Yes you could operate in my garage it's that bright. Yup 30 tubes of very bright lights. :crazy:

 

Light is good. We just put 6 - 2 tube 4' LED fixtures in the shop wow what a step up from the flourescents and Costco had them on sale for 34.99 a set.

Al

 

Yeah, thats darn close to the MSRP for all the parts to do the job. You'd be pretty much replacing all these parts.



Listing with MSRP and part #'s RealOEM.com   BMW R53 Cooper S HYDRO STEERING-OIL PIPES

 

Yeah. I had purchased all to have them installed at Helix a while back. Ended up being the cheapest of the three. So, I took the others back for the refund. I'll worry about those other lines when they need replacing.

 

13 years or 150,000 miles. Whichever comes first...

Looks like you are under the line still.



From MINI

 

So I have 3 more years. I won't get to the mileage anytime soon.

 

You have the first mini to need a repaint from indoor UV fadeing!!
Sounds to me like you could grow stuff in there...hope you don't have cracks in the floor for weeds to grow!!
My thinking was...killing the PS was penny wise, pound foolish...the shaft u-joints are gonna get $$$...they can be hard enough to find as it is.....extra tq from driving without a PS pump...can't be good for them...

 

Bump for Chad (DT) or Eric (Helix) or others to chime in.

 

I just recently went to a MINI dealership and they were more than happy to replace it free of charge...

then I got a call and they wanted $460 to replace the leaking power steering lines. First I have never put power steering fluid in the car so that was a hack to begin with but also $460! they already have the whole thing disassembled and all they have to do is take the lines out and put the lines in! anyway... I decided to just leave them and get the lines replaced elsewhere. I still got the free power steering motor and fan.

My suggestion would be to have another mechanic look at it and see if it needs new power steering lines and have him replace if it is less than the quoted $460.

Hope that helps! cheers!

 

That probably is the cost of just the parts. Those lines are expensive. Especially, the high pressure line.

 

Check with a dealer. It may be covered by the power steering extended warranty.

http://www.motoringalliance.com/forums/mini-news/18080-mini-extends-power-steering-pump-warranty-1st-gen-models.html

 

Me too but I may just run down to the dealer after the Dragon and say its intermittent and have them replace it just to be safe.

It has happened before and my dealership is very cool. Heck they know my car and even know not to wash it. :lol:

 

Dave, I thought you were going to do the PS delete?