CRAZIEST FAILURE! Steering Disconnected?! BMW M3 // Nürburgring 

The steering subscription clearly expired

"on the next episode bmw doing massive recall service" 😂

Whoever did the "Controller Disconnected" edit was brilliant 😂 But damn, this is a new fault that I didn't know would happen!

So youve basicly just won the lottery with the rain storm... if it would have been a sunny day, and u would go flat out, idk what would have happened with that steering failure. thats scaaary.

Having problems with the Traction Control or the ABS is a big problem...loosing the steering... that's another level

If this happens in a sim thats... not nice. If this happens in real life... DAMN THATS SCARY AF😮😂

The passenger looks like he's part of the Schumacher family.

Thanks for confirming my irrational fear of electronic steering 😂

Nürburgring Regenschleife

for some reason the passenger reminds a bit of a young michael schumacher

You know the conditions are bad when Misha turns on TC 😂

The look on the owners face when he realized the car is going straight.....into the wall 😂

Imagine building cars for many MANY decades. And then building one, where the steering can disconnect........

@5:27 controller disconnected.

the worst ive had was the shifter disconnected from the linkage.. i cant imagine what losing the steering would be like at speed.. 😳

two weeks ago a GR Supra was yeeted over a berm at Mid-Ohio, the driver said the gauges went dark, the steering locked up and the ABS died...

This just further cements it for me. I'm not buying new cars.

Luckily this 'Bug' is not possible in my ancient old E46 😮

poor guy I hope at the summer reunion the weather and traffic will play along

1:57 hilarious sign in that regard!

Windows triggered auto update at that moment 😁

As always Safe driving Mischa, stating you don't have to proof anything. Respect!!

Impressed that you finished the lap instead of calling it quits at the mid point.

A few years ago BMW asked me to pay 4000€ to fix the AFS (active front steering) on a 123d e87... A nightmare...

perfect weather for learning to drift

It would be nice to know what error codes it threw out from that. Might give some idea about the problem.

Misha's ability to find and adapt to surprise faults in cars is a testament to his skill and experience.

I was confused how I didn't see all your videos until I noticed this is a fresh post 🤣

It started out with rain...... Then it became ridiculous. Imagine going all the way to the Ring from Norway to test your car, and then this is what you get.

I was there that evening, was surprised about the sheer amount of photographers. Got a nice picture of me passing another car with wet snow coming down. Used the outside line quite a lot, thanks to watching your videos. Also I was only about 30 seconds slower than you! But I didn't pull over to restart my car, so there's that.

Holy shit! That's absolutely terrifying!

The hail reminded me of the 24 hour race where almost everyone went straight into the Aremberg gravel trap and barrier because of the hail on the track. 😅

So much for these electrical steering systems having multiple redundancies and failing safe 🤔Is this electrical power assist or full drive by wire?

that's not broken, it's normal, you're getting the full-on BMW experience

That amount of rain would have traffic crawling at 20mph with the hazard lights on here in the US. Here you are racing through it. 🤣🤣

had a similar issue with an f30, the steering box failed and required replacement. Even a light blow to the wheels can damage it. Its surprising after 11 years its still a common problem.

Man you show that watch so much that I'm surprised that there are no buy links in video descriptions.

Slowly getting colder over here in Australia Misha so you should start getting warmer weather soon mate 😂

G80 still has psychical steering column right (at least according to parts catalogs)? Really weird what happened. Maybe electronics were straightening up wheels, because they went crazy, because they were soaked in water?

Thats interesting. You couldnt steer because it was harder than before or wheels are completly disconected from sterring wheel so computer steer for you?

Im sure the previous gen f80/f32/f30 has issues with the steering column. Seems they made that issue worse on the g series

something electrical got wet clearly.

That's scary AF... Couldn't image if it was dry and MC was givin her the beans...

*Why doesn't the Nurburgring have a roof?*

Love the thumbnail title!

Wait what caused that weird steering issue? Is it a modification that's on the car or is it something else?

you can turn off the engine and restart while driving / rolling - just ( put gearbox to N and ) tap 3 times ( fast ) the start/stop engine button or longpress 3s. then the engine turns off and press again for restarting the engine

If this can happen at random, it makes you wonder if you could drive these new Ms fast with confidence in the one thing that used to be so reliable, I once crashed a TTS and it shut off my steering before the crash had finished!😂 that was the scariest part tbh

My old is350 powersteering would cutout when I was on the track mid corner. The steering ECU would fault out. Only way to fix was to shut off or replace. I would just man handle it until the end of the session then hope it wouldn't turn off again. It got sweaty quick.

Страшно было смотреть аж дух перехватывало на торможении в поворотах и максималка на прямых до срыва колеса…вау Браво 👏🏻 очень круто 👍

At 4:40 you can see that the redline starts to slowly drop from 8000 to 1000 rpm. The exact same thing happens at 10:20, just watch the thin red segments that start to descend to 1k. Just before he says drivetrain issue. There is also a yellow zone that starts to appear bellow the rev "needle" on the display in both cases. The older BMWs had LEDs on the rev meter to reduce the redline when the engine was cold, and the redline got higher as the engine temp got closer to optimum. This seems to be the digital version of the same thing, so maybe some sensor failures are causing it to limit the revs to 1000...

I own an M3 Xdrive and certain temperatures combined with the traction control when underload makes the cars drivetrain malfunction. I have this happen and its as if it 2nd gear out but in actuality it just cut all the power.

insane malfunction

what watch do you wear?

I've never loved the idea of a steering column more in my life 😅

You’re spot on - Cameraman needs more credit!

Would the zones with more rubber which get slippier in rain conditions be a concern in normal road driving or just on track?

I don't mind at all seeing more and more G series BMW go around the ring. Beast of a car

The IT crowd @11:32 🥲🙂 *our work on this planet is done*

thats probably quite a almost scary scenario especially in a downpour

I drove through a really heavy rain storm in France in my M135i and it went into limp mode and drivetrain failure warning appeared, restarted the car and all ok, BMW electronics have a rain fall limit??

gotta come back when dry

what a legend the guy of the Volvo with bikes

The G80 has a mechanical steering with electrical power assist (EPS) It can't be disconnected unless there is a major mechanical breakage. Now the brake pedal is brake by wire with a mechanical redundancy system to the braking circuit as a safety :P

Isn’t there a steering shaft still connected as a backup if the electric one fails? Was there just suddenly a huge dead spot? At first it looked like maybe understeer in a wet spot but you would have probably been able to tell better in person and feeling it in the steering or lack of steering lol

I would say water got into somewere. It happened to me in a car wash water got into my DME box in my bmw it went crazy.

My guess is since this is an Xdrive car, the front wheels were hydroplaning giving the illusion of no steering. My WRX with worn PSS with any power to the front axle in a very wet condition acted this way.

"Controller Disconnected".. Feeling some Oceangate vibes here😅

This happened to my e92 when the battery was low!

It's funny that so much rain drops, yet the rear windshield doesn't get any rain

Now imagine that happens in a cybertruck that has no steering column! At least if it's just electric assist, you still have control of the vehicle. With full electric steering you lose steering completely.

Track mode is only available with the M professional package.

5:37 Looks like a huge puddle down there in Fuchsröhre. So maybe the car wasn't turning at 5:40 because of aquaplaning or there was a problem with the power steering / assistance. For sure, the steering can't disconnect on this BMW. Furthermore, it's a redundant system which is at least doubly secured

My god, that could have been horrific…Well done Misha for keeping so calm..I would have pulled off after that to change my man nappy..lol. 🙏🏻

im 100%% sure is about this rain, the moment he left that heavy rainfall, error popped out on screen. Water went somewhere.

Possibly low battery of the controller.😂🤣😂🤣

6:20 - How dangerous!!! You should've waited

Well, that's scary! In a car this fast, you get steering wheel disconnection...

In other word a BMW doing BMW things

Qu est ce que c est cette tenue de route sur la pluie ,je n aïs jamais vue cela ? Le compteur est en miles en bleue côté gauche ? Jr ne comprends pas ce vaisseau spatiale !

Nice lap anyay in pouring conditions. If it was my car I simply return it, this warning message is plain scary....

Some mechanics are right when they say buy a car with the fewest electronics. As for german reliability, it has probably gone on a long excursion in recent years.

How did it occur? Turning the steering wheel but wheels did not turn with it or was it the power assist cutting off so it was hard to steer?

Yikes good thing you have perfect control over a car

Lol I would redo when dry, wet laps aren't fun

The only thing that is logical in this situation is because of the heavy rain some water finds it's way to the steering electrical connection or some wire has loos pin..something along these lines. But still, it has to be looked after ASAP

Good video

Gotta love new cars

Damn, new fear unlocked in my G80… wish I hadn’t seen this

Dont you hate it when you go to the Nurburgring and forget to pay your power steering subscription?

This is a little known fact - BMW uses blinker fluid for steering as well, if the owner uses their indicators too much, it depletes the blinker fluid and steering doesn't work anymore. Therefore it is is not recommended to use blinkers that much in a BMW.

idk why but this video feels so relaxing even tho it is clearly not xD

Once again i love my rack and pinion Steering without power steering. Nothing that can go wrong (basically)

looks like bmw dont like rain

Wonders of new technology ....

That looks almost like the car has some dynamic ratio power assist running from a system related to the ECU/BCM or other drive-related module, and Misha powering through all the standing water giving it big inputs caused some weird ABS/wheel slip/differential sensor readings, so the module failed itself safe and disabled all the enhancements. Including power steering... Seems like a fairly niche edge case given most people wouldn't be hooning round Nords in torrential storm weather, but a very scary failure mode nonetheless 😮 the owner will know not to do that in future! Could be useful info with Norway's conditions. Of course, the car might just have lemon electronics and need a loom or module replacing 😅 here's hoping he has some success with BMW. Would be interesting to get a follow-up.

And people think Tesla Cybertruck steer by wire is a good idea :O

I cannot think one reason to drive in these conditions.Whats the point?

Death trap on wheels 😂

That's just an instant sell right... I would never be able to trust that car again.