Have looked in R56 forum and not found any other airbag/seatbelt warning light problems, though plenty on R50, R53. Have any R56 owners experienced this? and got it fixed?
My partner's R56 MCS is just 3 weeks old, has about 600 miles on it and the seat belt and airbag warnings came on in the speedo, together with an airbag in the tacho display. Taken to dealer, who fiddled around, reset it and it came back on again. They are now talking about having it for "at least two days" and dropping the headlining.
I am sure that I could find a bad connection, with my Maplin ohm meter, in considerably less time. My instinct, without putting on the latex and hitching up the computer, is that it has to be the connection of the car to one of the seats - why is that beyond my dealer? and his £00000s worth of "technology"?
I find it very poor indeed (having spent £21k on a car, £25k on my car 9 months ago and £14k on my daughter's car, at the same time, that a courtesy car was not instantly offered and when requested - and an MCS or BMW 118 specified, this would delay sorting the problem for another two weeks. I wonder if one would have been, if we had just spent £80,000 on an overblown and vulgar 7 series or ostentatious X5?
This fault, I assume, totally disables the airbags - a safety issue that I am not happy about. BMW would be liable in negligence, for any loss or injury arising out their knowing about or reasonably foreseeing it - which they surely must do, when it has been shown to them and they cannot attend to it, there and then.
I am also not happy that, when they wanted my partner's PXer MC Park Lane JCW, for a "Used Car Event", a replacement vehicle was no problem, apparently.
This episode and the poor management of it just points up the cavalier approach to customer service. If people's experiences, documented in MINI2, surrounding BMW trying to duck paying for the R50/53 similar faults, are anything to go by, then BMW's arrogant treatment of paying customers, just shows their complete disrespect for them.
The fault itself (and others - like steering racks, gearboxes and ABS units, go to point up shoddy sub-assembly manufacture ) and also bad assembly standards. Still, it did start life as a Rover.
I know one guy started a petition on the R50/53 fault and that Quentin Wilson and VOSA were both mentioned, but haven't seen evidence that it has yet given complacent stealers and BMW CS the slap, which they need and which is long overdue. I am sick of how we have been treated, over five MINIs now, it must get better some time! Frankly, if they p*** us around, they can change to whole car. We are still waiting for its aero kit, mentioned elswhere.
My partner's R56 MCS is just 3 weeks old, has about 600 miles on it and the seat belt and airbag warnings came on in the speedo, together with an airbag in the tacho display. Taken to dealer, who fiddled around, reset it and it came back on again. They are now talking about having it for "at least two days" and dropping the headlining.
I am sure that I could find a bad connection, with my Maplin ohm meter, in considerably less time. My instinct, without putting on the latex and hitching up the computer, is that it has to be the connection of the car to one of the seats - why is that beyond my dealer? and his £00000s worth of "technology"?
I find it very poor indeed (having spent £21k on a car, £25k on my car 9 months ago and £14k on my daughter's car, at the same time, that a courtesy car was not instantly offered and when requested - and an MCS or BMW 118 specified, this would delay sorting the problem for another two weeks. I wonder if one would have been, if we had just spent £80,000 on an overblown and vulgar 7 series or ostentatious X5?
This fault, I assume, totally disables the airbags - a safety issue that I am not happy about. BMW would be liable in negligence, for any loss or injury arising out their knowing about or reasonably foreseeing it - which they surely must do, when it has been shown to them and they cannot attend to it, there and then.
I am also not happy that, when they wanted my partner's PXer MC Park Lane JCW, for a "Used Car Event", a replacement vehicle was no problem, apparently.
This episode and the poor management of it just points up the cavalier approach to customer service. If people's experiences, documented in MINI2, surrounding BMW trying to duck paying for the R50/53 similar faults, are anything to go by, then BMW's arrogant treatment of paying customers, just shows their complete disrespect for them.
The fault itself (and others - like steering racks, gearboxes and ABS units, go to point up shoddy sub-assembly manufacture ) and also bad assembly standards. Still, it did start life as a Rover.
I know one guy started a petition on the R50/53 fault and that Quentin Wilson and VOSA were both mentioned, but haven't seen evidence that it has yet given complacent stealers and BMW CS the slap, which they need and which is long overdue. I am sick of how we have been treated, over five MINIs now, it must get better some time! Frankly, if they p*** us around, they can change to whole car. We are still waiting for its aero kit, mentioned elswhere.