New here, new to Mini's, not new to cars in general.

Bought my daughter a 2012 R55 S, 104k miles. It ran great, but was eating oil quite. She got an oil warning and then charging warning and the car was starting to over heat. She parked it and I went and got it towed to my house the next day. I opened it up and it had sprayed oil out of the oil filler cap, and it seems it sprayed enough that caused the belt to slip and shred (hence the no charging and overheating). No oil in the coolant so I am assuming head gasket remained intact. Cleaned the oil off the pulleys, replaced the belt, and doing the research assumed that the reason the oil sprayed was due to a faulty PCV. Order a new valve cover set from ECS, removed the old one, cleaned all the surfaces, installed the new valve cover. Noticed during installation that the ground wire that attached to the back valve cover stud seemed like it was broken, which it was. I replaced the ring terminal on it. Went to start the car, and initial start it fired up for maybe 3 - 4 seconds, then died. Subsequent starts just cranked no fire. Rechecked the install to make sure I didn't pinch any harness' rechecked all the sensors that I unplugged during the install, no bent pins, no oil in the connectors.

I backed off the hard line on the HPFP and there is pressure there so fuel is getting to it. It doesn't seem like i'm getting fuel to the injectors. I was using Bimmerlink to read codes and I had the following codes:

P16E7 - Manufacturer Defined Powertrain
P007D - Charge Air Cooler Temp Sensor Circuit High Bank 1
P0193 - Fuel Rail Pressure Sensor Circuit High Bank 1
2DD7 Valvetronic Positioning Motor, Position sensors, Supply Voltage Faulty
27DA Accelerator Pedal Module, Pedal encoder 1 electrical Short Circuit to ground.
3427 Engine Oil Pressure Sensor SHort to Earth
36E2 Monitoring 5V Sensor supply, VOltage outside Valid Range

WHen I logged the crank condition I was logging the things that initially made the most sense to me, for monitoring

Fuel Pump - would start at 0 then on pressing start, would quickly switch to 1 and then back to 0
Rail Pressure - 10 bar no change or fluctuations during the cranking
Low Pressure Fuel - 5 bar
Oil Pressure - .5

Thoughts, recommendations, at this point, I'm frustrated and ready to sell it.

 

Hello,

This is a good check for the HPFP testing.

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...placement.html

The others look like a wire issues or harness issue or footwell module or fuse box?

 

I hope the following is NOT the problem.

If the repaired valve cover ground lacked proper continuity to the battery ground post, then the DME may have been damaged when you cranked the engine. Common symptoms for this issue are no spark and no voltage to 5V sensors.

 

I was worried that may be the problem. Is there any easy way to check this?

 

Measure resistance between valve cover ground stud and the battery ground post. It should be almost 0 Ohms.

Unplug the fuel rail pressure sensor. One of the connector pins should read 5V with the ignition key ON.

If both tests are good, check for spark at the plugs.