R50 airbag light-on(considering buying a car for sale) HELP!
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Hi, looking at getting into Gen1 Mini ownership, looking at a tidy 51 Reg R50 but the airbag light is own. Owner has said she keeps getting it reset 'every couple of weeks' but it comes on again. obviously not ideal but is this a common fault and a cheap fix? I've got a merc and when this happens on Merc's it's seats apart sensor replacement stuff and can run into £300 easily.
Cheers, Adam.
Cheers, Adam.
Good advice thank you. If it was frayed wires surely the airbag light would just be on all the time? like to display to the driver there's a broken circuit. Is the wiring simple for the front seat, i am handy with tools and built my own wiring looms for my 250cc Race bike so well capable of fixing freyed wires. Just want to know how deep this issue goes, as if it's just freyed wires or something obvious to the eye, to me should be cheap and easy to fix.
However, if all the wiring looks good and the light is on, to me that wiffs of seat sensor faults or pads etc. Like i say mercs has a sensor in the seat in with the heated elements and when the sensor pad wires go down it's a £300 seat rebuild to put the new wiring in!
With a car worth a little over 2 grand I want to have 2 or 3 years hassle free motoring and move it on. It's for sale at £2100 and has 76k on the clock.
However, if all the wiring looks good and the light is on, to me that wiffs of seat sensor faults or pads etc. Like i say mercs has a sensor in the seat in with the heated elements and when the sensor pad wires go down it's a £300 seat rebuild to put the new wiring in!
With a car worth a little over 2 grand I want to have 2 or 3 years hassle free motoring and move it on. It's for sale at £2100 and has 76k on the clock.
Cheers Pit Pony.
This seems to tbe the same but half the cost??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360876585679?_trksid=p20...
This seems to tbe the same but half the cost??
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360876585679?_trksid=p20...
Edited by rgv250ads on Wednesday 25th February 10:57
Another bit of advice please !
On the 2001 and 2002 cars (R50 Cooper, Non-S) i've been looking at, the coolant reservoir tank on the bulkhead is not a pressure sealed cap, seems to just be an overflow bottle. So the actual place you top up coolant must be somewhere else in the system via a pressurised cap, on bike this is typically on the actual radiator itself with a pressurised filler cap on a neck on the top corner of the rad.
See pic attached.
And it wasn't obvious under the bonnets of these cars either where the pressurised filler cap is.
Where is the pressurised filler cap to be found?
Picture arrow 2 on this engine bay is not a pressurised cap/bottle. This is what i've seen on the cars i've looked at so far. I want to check the coolant actually in the system for signs of sludge
http://www.promini.com/technical/engine/files/MINI...
On the 2001 and 2002 cars (R50 Cooper, Non-S) i've been looking at, the coolant reservoir tank on the bulkhead is not a pressure sealed cap, seems to just be an overflow bottle. So the actual place you top up coolant must be somewhere else in the system via a pressurised cap, on bike this is typically on the actual radiator itself with a pressurised filler cap on a neck on the top corner of the rad.
See pic attached.
And it wasn't obvious under the bonnets of these cars either where the pressurised filler cap is.
Where is the pressurised filler cap to be found?
Picture arrow 2 on this engine bay is not a pressurised cap/bottle. This is what i've seen on the cars i've looked at so far. I want to check the coolant actually in the system for signs of sludge
http://www.promini.com/technical/engine/files/MINI...
Edited by rgv250ads on Wednesday 25th February 14:23
Edited by rgv250ads on Wednesday 25th February 16:41
Edited by rgv250ads on Wednesday 25th February 16:59
Ah Cheers. So it's an unpressurised system in the R50 Cooper non-S....
Whats the filler cap adjacent to the air intake right angle just off the airbox. I tried to take this off on one car i was inspecting and it wouldn't even come off. Wasn't obvious what it was.
Pretty tight engine bay.
Whats the filler cap adjacent to the air intake right angle just off the airbox. I tried to take this off on one car i was inspecting and it wouldn't even come off. Wasn't obvious what it was.
Pretty tight engine bay.
Great cheers for the into
Seeing another one saturday (52Reg R50 Cooper) hoping it turns out to be decent.
Saw 6 last weekend range between 1900 and 2600 only 2 were even presentable and one was an almost but the dealer wanted screen price even thou it hadn't been serviced since 2009 and had a huge hole in the exhaust back box (you could get 4 fingers in!)
Seeing another one saturday (52Reg R50 Cooper) hoping it turns out to be decent.
Saw 6 last weekend range between 1900 and 2600 only 2 were even presentable and one was an almost but the dealer wanted screen price even thou it hadn't been serviced since 2009 and had a huge hole in the exhaust back box (you could get 4 fingers in!)
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