Power steering pump failure

[Dusty]

Hi everyone. On Wednesday afternoon, when leaving work my car was making this terrible sound when turning the steering and later that evening when I drove again it was even worse. Power steering liquid was on minimum and so I took the car in to the dealer yesterday.
Phoned me back and the power steering pump is "bye-bye", it is on back order from Germany and may take up to 15 working days to get here
They told me the pump is in the region of R17000 can this be? Thank goodness for motorplanraise:
So they have given me a 2011 320i with 487km on the clock, I am grateful but the power
Upside is by the time I get my 335i back I'll be so used to the 320i that the 335i power will be mindblowing:thumbs:

 

[Sankekur]

That is just the motorplan price that they give you to make you think that you should be glad to have motorplan, and you can't have a car without it, and when it runs out you should rather get rid of your car and a get a new one.

Realistically, the pump probably costs a tenth of that, a new pump for my 330i is R1600 from goldwagen.

Edit: seems like everyone's PS pumps are failing, has already been a couple of similar threads in the last week, hmmm the plot thickens, BMW doesn't have a part kill switch, my ass

 

[v1p3r]

With you on that Sankekur, they must have a surplus of pumps now they're killing ours off so we can buy it from them. Unfortunatley we're all cheap bastards who want R500 pompe.

lol @ R500 pompe :rollsmile: