I have an 07 R56 with 60K miles on it. Just recently the passenger front tire after driving it for a while the brakes will stick on it. I replaced the caliper on it hoping it would fix it, but it hasn't. I am thinking its the brake line, but just noticed my driver rear brake had some smoke coming from it as well. Is it possible Ive got 2 brake lines went bad at the same time or could it be something else?

 

Did you bled the brakes properly ? Bleeding makes a big difference. The brakes on the Gen 2 MINis will stick on the sliders if dirt or salt gets under the boot. What were they stuck from. Do you have a corroded hard brake line ? Need pics

 

Ive ordered brake lines for front and rear and will change them, hopefully that'll fix the issue, I just find it odd that both of them are now sticking. I bled the front brake last night. Not sure what caused the original caliper to go, but the seal around it was pretty beat up.

 

Ah, bad main seal for the piston. All I can think of it that the lines are corroded from salt or damage from road debris, other then air in the system. Are you bleeding all four ? Make sure you stop to refill the master tank . Start furthest away from the master.

 

nope, just bleed the one we changed the caliper on. I'm thinking bad brake line as well, strange to have 2 go out at the same time?

 

two at once sounds like a master cylinder issue. I suppose the mini is split diagonal so that would make sense.

 

Mini just called and said that my ABS control module is bad, causing the brakes to stick. They also let me know that it would be $3,128 for the module plus shop charges. Does this seem right? Im not sure im even going to do this, but kind of stuck at this point.

 

ABS module can go bad, kind of rare though. I would get a quote from an indy shop, they will have to bled the system with a brake bleeder tool and then a tool that can pulse the brakes and get the parts online.

Or the repair kit for much less , but sounds like they want to replace the whole unit.

https://www.ecstuning.com/Mini-2007-...A/Braking/ABS/

 

Could the module be bypassed? I had an f150 with same issue and we were able to bypass it and just not have antilock brakes.