What's broken on my e92?

utajoker · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:06

Hi

Was driving round Manchester today. Pulled into the car park felt a bump and the power steering went really heavy, didn't feal assisted at all. Got to a space and looked underneath, fluid is dripping down from around the middle of the car.

Red battery light came on the dash for a few seconds but the car sounds fine and starts no problem.

Hoping maybe a hose has come loose. I have bmw assistance so will ring them tomorrow morning. Are all them parts covered under the fully comp cover?

slick rick · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:08

Did the drive belt snap, as the same belt likely drives the PS pump and alternator (hence battery light)? That wouldn't explain the leaking fluid though...

sovietspybob · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:10

What was the fluid under the car like, colour, oily etc? If it's only a bit good chance it could just be water from the air con.

utajoker · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:25

Fluid looked clean, olive colour but it was an underground car park. Could it be power steering fluid?

I didn't investigate as was on way to a wedding.

It was dripping quite frequent but not running but I didn't look for more than a minute

melchy · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:43

Which model of E92, I thought it was only the 335i and 335d that had hydraulic steering.

utajoker · 11 Jul 2015 at 19:48

Its 330i

utajoker · 12 Jul 2015 at 10:43

Went back to the car this morning. There is no pool of fluid. Looked under the bonnet and there is a belt mangled up.

I did have a squeaky pulley and the squeak has now gone so i think that may have failed. Hopefully covered under warranty!

What are bmw recovery like? I'm parked in a covered car park so don't think a recovery truck would get in.

What belts are classed as auxiliary under the warranty?

[TW]Fox · 12 Jul 2015 at 11:28

There is only one belt (well and an ac belt) on your car and its the aux belt. It's a consumable part and isn't covered.

utajoker · 12 Jul 2015 at 12:03

They are on their way, hopefully not a big bill anyway :S

slick rick · 12 Jul 2015 at 12:33

When I changed the aux belt on my car it was very inexpensive, it was a Continental one and was around about a tenner if memory serves.

Gaygle · 13 Jul 2015 at 11:46

slick rick said:
When I changed the aux belt on my car it was very inexpensive, it was a Continental one and was around about a tenner if memory serves.

Which means BMW will charge him £200.

I wonder what the fluid leak was though?

slick rick · 13 Jul 2015 at 11:53

Gaygle said:
Which means BMW will charge him £200.

I wonder what the fluid leak was though?

I am sure you are right about that.

Clarkey · 13 Jul 2015 at 12:18

Gaygle said:
Which means BMW will charge him £200.

I wonder what the fluid leak was though?

I'll bet it was just the AC drain.

utajoker · 9 Aug 2015 at 21:52

Thought i might update this with what happened now everything is sorted.

The auxiliary belt snapped, it also damaged some cooling pipes when it went, the belt snapped because of an oil leak causing the belt to deteriorate and eventually fail.

In the end they had the car for nearly 4 weeks, replaced the belt, cooling pipes, one of the belt pullys and fixed 3 oil leaks. They had to get a few parts shipped over from Germany also.

Oil leaks on the heat exchange(i cant remember proper what she said), one under the rocker cover and one around the sump which they had the gear box out.

The hire car costs went to nearly £2k, can't imagine the labour costs and two recoveries from road side

All the oil leaks were covered under warranty so i had to pay £500 at the end for the initial investigation the belt/pipes and £100 excess for the warranty.

Makes me glad i took the £79 per month warranty. Should prob cancel it now everything is sorted

Went for a run to the lakes this weekend and all is well.

SS-89 · 9 Aug 2015 at 22:58

I thought if they found a genuine cause then the investigation costs were covered under warranty? At least that's what happened when 3 of my 6 injectors were faulty on my old 335i and they sorted it. The car was fine no EML lights just very rough idle and I wanted them to find the cause. Didn't end up paying anythhing (0 excess).

utajoker · 9 Aug 2015 at 22:59

they may have told me about the oil leak earlier, i just never got around to taking it in.

paradigm · 10 Aug 2015 at 07:28

Surprised they covered the belt and subsequent damage then, seeing as it was your negligence that caused the belt to snap.

SS-89 · 10 Aug 2015 at 08:03

utajoker said:
they may have told me about the oil leak earlier, i just never got around to taking it in.

Right that makes more sense.

paradigm said:
Surprised they covered the belt and subsequent damage then, seeing as it was your negligence that caused the belt to snap.

Agreed very lucky.

melchy · 10 Aug 2015 at 20:45

SS-89 said:
I thought if they found a genuine cause then the investigation costs were covered under warranty? At least that's what happened when 3 of my 6 injectors were faulty on my old 335i and they sorted it. The car was fine no EML lights just very rough idle and I wanted them to find the cause. Didn't end up paying anythhing (0 excess).

There was a recall on faulty injectors on the 335i. Mine had 5 replaced, it wasn't a warranty issue as such.

SS-89 · 10 Aug 2015 at 21:54

melchy said:
There was a recall on faulty injectors on the 335i. Mine had 5 replaced, it wasn't a warranty issue as such.

Nope this was post recall as I had the car in previously for that work.