CarComplaints.com Notes: Power steering problems are a major issue with the 2005 Mini Cooper, with hundreds of owners reporting complaints to the NHTSA about their power steering suddenly failing while driving.
Some power steering failures have caused crashes & injuries. Average mileage at failure is well under 100,000 miles & the repair cost is over $1,000. Not good.
10.0
really awful
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
50,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
replaced entire emission system with new model (1 reports)
The first month we had the car, the 'check fuel' system light kept coming on.
I took it to the dealer several times in the space of a week. They finally kept the car, giving me a 'loaner' and fiddled with the vapor emissions system which recycles fuel fumes from gas tank back into the combustion system. Turned out, the entire
system, pump, sensors everything was bad and they switched out an entire system from a new model to replace bad one. The car was in the shop for a whole week.
You would say....so what, it was a warranty repair.... but what a nuisance on a brand new car!!!
A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
The first month we had the car, the 'check fuel' system light kept coming on.
I took it to the dealer several times in the space of a week. They finally kept the car, giving me a 'loaner' and fiddled with the vapor emissions system which recycles fuel fumes from gas tank back into the combustion system. Turned out, the entire
system, pump, sensors everything was bad and they switched out an entire system from a new model to replace bad one. The car was in the shop for a whole week.
You would say....so what, it was a warranty repair.... but what a nuisance on a brand new car!!!
- pbailey, Ballwin, MO, US