15V660000
STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM
If the vehicle experiences a loss of power steering assist, extra steering effort will be required at lower speeds, potentially increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
2003 MINI COOPER
1 safety recall campaign, 5 defect investigations, 388 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations5
Owner complaints388
Complaints citing a crash3
Complaints citing a fire33
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 140STEERING
- 53POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 29POWER TRAIN
- 24ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 15VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD
- 12STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:PUMP
- 11ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 9ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2003 MINI COOPERs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.