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Mini Cooper service suggestions [Dublin]

  • 17-07-2016 10:05pm
    #1
    phoebe!
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭


    I need to get my 2006 Mini Cooper serviced. The airbag warning light is on (again) so I want to bring it to someone who can fix that. The last time it happened my usual garage couldn't fix it so I ended up going to a Mini garage which was expensive.
    Has anyone got any suggestions. I am based in Dublin.
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,569 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    phoebe! wrote: »
    I need to get my 2006 Mini Cooper serviced. The airbag warning light is on (again) so I want to bring it to someone who can fix that. The last time it happened my usual garage couldn't fix it so I ended up going to a Mini garage which was expensive.
    Has anyone got any suggestions. I am based in Dublin.
    Thanks

    If it's the seatbelt pretensioner or the seat airbag that is the source of the error, then hooking it up to computer and erasing the errors will only kick the can down the road. It will be back.

    Assuming it is one or both of those errors, (not the steering wheel airbag) the connectors under the seat are just not fit for purpose. You need to find somebody who knows how to solve the cause not just the symptoms.

    You have various options - cut the connectors of and solder or crimp the wires together. Or, tape the connectors and cables so that they don't rattle around anymore. Difficult to describe - make an Z shape with the connectors in the middle, squish the z together then tape it up good and tight. Obviously do be very very very careful messing with airbag wiring.

    Another option is to invest in a scanner that can wipe airbag codes. Many cheap ones won't erase them. I got an icarsoft i910 bmw/mini code scanner/eraser from amazon.de for a very good price... 70 ish?

    I have the connectors in herself's mini taped up (after repairing a bodge done by some yokel before we bought it). About once a year we still see a code, more likely if someone has been getting in the back seat. Or hoovering....
    I just erase it, that unit has paid for itself already even with only one code a year. It was a code a month until I sorted the connectors.


  • #3
    noelf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭noelf


    www.bloomfieldgarage.ie haven't used them yet but will ..


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