All, was replacing a fuse in the fuse box under the hood. Had a wrench accidentally touch the positive terminal inside the fuse box and tons of sparks flew.

Now the car will keep cranking on its own (even without my foot on the brakes) and tons of errors on the screen (see screen shot), but the engine wont turn over…

All the lights and radio work. Help!!

 

hello,

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...-the-hood.html

I bet ones of those main fuses went.

Also check the ones on the footwell https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...eg-on-r56.html

 

Thank you!


Just a quick update:

Checked battery 12.4v, slow charging battery to 100% now and see if that makes a difference. Maybe the direct short drained the battery, it’s an AGM if that helps.

The smaller fuses under hood and in footwell all seems okay, visually and multimeter checked each and no blown fuses.

Waiting to check relays when equipment arrives.

One odd thing, was checking the voltage of the fuses under the hood, set multimeter to DCV with engine to on, and noticed it was showing 7.8V and then dropping to zero, with some fuses not even showing voltage. Will try again later in case I tested it incorrectly but is it possible the fuse box is not getting power? Or is there another main fuse between the battery and this fuse box?

Attaching photo of where the wrench hit the positive terminal in the fuse box (shown in red), a small weld at the nut where wrench made contact. Fuses checked in green.