The cooling fan on my 02 Mini will not shut off any suggestions?

Same thing happened to me on my 02 MINI Open the hood and look for where the wiring connects to the electric fans. There's a black box where the wires go in. Get a screw driver or small mallet, just something to tap with. Rap on that black box a couple times and it will release the relay and turn the fans off. It's an intermittent problem for us and we just keep something in the car to tap on it with :-)