The last one on your list, is our LR Trophy face lift.
Hi have you reported steering issue to main dealer if not do this ASAP. The problem is the steering column knuckle join. This is a known problem that MG know about but not admitting. Show your dealer the photos I have posted. Please keep me updated as I am getting legal and independent technical advice.
Hi John did you get steering issue sorted. If not I would be very cautious about driving it. Mine just collapsed as I was driving away from the side of the road. Please keep me updated we need to get this problem out there. Hopefully then MG will admit there is a problem and do a recall.
Hi,
.Take your car back to the garage and show them the photos I posted. I had no concerns with any knocking it just came off when I was driving away from side of road. I am not scaremongering but my experience I would not drive the anywhere. Please keep me updated
I don’t think you would be advising people to keep there fingers crossed if you had the same experience as me. There has been a number of post reporting knocking noise from there steering column and have had them replaced. Do these not count as possible failures. Do you work for MGUK. Because this is the exact attitude there taking. Maybe if we get someone’s steering column failing on the motorway with deaths or life changing injuries maybe you wouldn’t be so flippant with your commentsThink we might need a touch more statistical nouse than absolute numbers here to keep things in perspective... expressed as a probability 2 out of ?200,000?more?
As we know yours & others' mk2s might not even exist yet, & may or may not use similar parts no technically different to those in mk1, so the jury even further out on those odds
So best keep em crossed
Oh dear.
Hi thank you for your input. I totally agree with you that there would be some sign before the knuckle joint would fail. I heard no knocking or play in the steering wheel. Which is even more worrying. I am trying to collate a list of failures plus columns that have been replaced.Is anybody keeping a tally on how many complete failures we are seeing on the UJ joints of these cars OBTW ??.
I THINK we are sitting at three complete failures now, with more to follow I suspect.
I agree, that some of the clicking in the column may not be as a direct result of potential UJ failure, but when the column has reached the point where it is rattling badly and knocking can be heard, you have to be very wary of a link to UJ failure.
Given the degree of failure, this joint will display excessive play at the wheel and an increasing loud knocking before it fails.
It does not just fail instantly like that.
Not an isolated incident then it would appear.
I really hate to think, that somebody suffers a major accident before something is done about this KNOWN problem.
Surely, the demand for replacement steering columns by dealers, for cars that are very new and only covered a small amount of mileage, in some cases should get the alarm bells ringing somewhere ???.
Excess play at the steering wheel will be a key indicator that something is seriously wrong and should NOT be dismissed.
Here is a simple but NOT fool proof plan you can do at home.
Boot up the car and make sure the front wheels are punted straight ahead.
Lower the drivers window and leave the car.
Reach through the window and now with your left hand, pinch the steering lightly with your thumb and finger.
Now gently, try rocking the steering wheel a very small amount, no more than about 10 mm each way.
While doing this, keep your eyes firmly on the drivers road wheel.
If you move the steering wheel slightly and the front wheel reacts in the same manner, then this is a positive basic test.
If you are moving the steering wheel and the road wheel is perfectly still and not moving.
There is excess play / wear somewhere in the steering gear.
The small amount of movement at the steering wheel, should be mimicked at the road wheel.
Again, do not take this test as 100% proof folks, but is a good basic home test.
Do you feel that you are having to correct the steering a lot on the open road and your steering wheel looks slightly off centre ?.
Does it feel like the car is wandering about some times ?.
If you feel in anyway that something does not feel right, please get it checked !.
MOT testers can perform this simple test at the steering wheel before inspecting the car on a ramp.
You get a feel what can lie ahead on some older cars.
Ask me how I know.
This type of thing is NOT conclusive with a newer car and should be of major concern to somebody on the ladder of motoring industry.
I find it both worrying and disconcerting that he dismisses the problem so flippantly to be totally honest.
Nope, still clicking, still waiting for parts, no sign of light at the end of the tunnel.
Thanks for update John
3 months old same issue here
Gen 2 ZS EV face lift, which model ??????.
Hi Armylee did the knuckle joint fail or did you get some knocking. What has your dealer said about it.
Gen 2 trophy its in the garage on Monday but I'm an ex fitter for Ford, uj,so on way out and cheap rack fitted poor grade of steel
Can you supply a photo of the failed UJ joint ( Top or Bottom) and a photo of the part number label on the lower steering column assembly please.
