Power steering rack replacement EPAS - BMW

1 - 3 Series power steering rack replacement EPAS

[@robmcfarlane8076]

Racks on way 275 2nd hand undertray Im watching ur vid in training ready for the day of fitting

[@streetfighter4dude]

how did it go? gotto do mine soon, any tips and tricks? or is pretty straight forward?

[@ams0876]

@@streetfighter4dudedid you replace your rack did it need coding

[@gabriellupuleasa9185]

Can i just replace the electrical bit?

[@streetfighter4dude]

Hey John, is this still holding up good?

[@chrisholmes8197]

Thanks for this mate massively helpful. Why were you replacing the rack in the first place? mine has a common fault that makes the steering go heavy which is a fault with the motor. very annoying. And did you have to get the new rack coded to the car in the end?

[@johnmorrison9072]

I replaced the rack because it got very stiff and used to momentarily lock in position whilst driving when I took it apart, it looked like water has gotten into the rack no I didn’t need to code the steering rack didn’t have any warning lights or any fault codes, just plug and play Very glad the video helped you thank you for subscribing

[@chrisholmes8197]

@@johnmorrison9072 I was planning on paying 700-800 to get this done but think I’m just going to buy a refurbed rack for £500 and do it myself. Did you have fault codes on the dash before you changed the rack?

[@chrisholmes8197]

Any chance you could tell me the part numbers on the steering rack? And maybe a tip on where to get one? I’m looking at eBay but I’m worried they might be faulty as well and leave me with the same problem. Mines got a common fault in the electric motor

[@chrisholmes8197]

Also what year is the car? Sorry for bombarding with questions haha

[@johnmorrison9072]

As Far as I’m aware, as I obviously did look for t the part on various websites, mainly eBay and speak to several people about this. Part number is largely irrelevant believe it or not. If you go on eBay you will see that none of the part numbers match. You just need one for the make model and year of your car I was just going on eBay and contacting the sellers of the parts and they may or may not contact you back but some of the sellers are very informative and very helpful. I hope this helps

[@robmcfarlane8076]

Was there no issues at all just replacing the part? Garage says I need the part coded to car ?

[@johnmorrison9072]

I just replaced the part, there was no coded needed. The part numbers didn’t even match. All was perfect

[@robmcfarlane8076]

Im gona give it a crack

[@chrisholmes8197]

Garage said the same to me and I just replaced it and it was fine

[@robmcfarlane8076]

Awsum im giving it a go cos it’s a £1000 odd in the garage and im not paying it

[@chrisholmes8197]

The steering is a tiny bit heavier on mine now but not an issue. Isn’t a particularly hard job either I can’t believe what they wanted to charge