Hi all,


I am looking for help desperately as my own stupidity and lack of experience has resulted in a costly error.

While changing the rocker cover this morning I have snapped one of the bolts, it happens to be the ground bolt also.

I have it booked in on Thursday to have the bolt removed however I've started the car while the ground isn't connected properly resulting in some error codes: P16E7 and P0193

one is for excessive voltage at the fuel rail and the other is also voltage related.

Have I killed my Mini by starting it up? Where else can I put the ground wire so it starts again?

Any help massively appreciated

Thanks

 

pull the cover and drill it out.

Put the ground somewhere else in the meanwhile. Even if an extension wire clipped to any metal part.

You didnt do any damage. the computer isnt seeing signals it needs. dont stress.

 

Cranking the engine with the valve cover ground disconnected has been known to damage the DME. Search videos by this YouTuber.

High voltage from the coils seeks ground and unfortunately sometimes that ground is the DME. I hope this is not the case here.

 

Maybe not, be gentle...he needs positivity in this moment of crisis

 

I concur.

Attach the ground to something else and don't worry about what "MIGHT" be wrong.

I mean, for goodness sake, at any point in time someone could drive in to you while on the road.....all it takes is one idiot on their phone and your life is changed dramatically. Is that stopping you from getting in the car every day?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/571000366006808

 

Why did she post a video of her self-induced accident?

 

It wasn't posted by her. It was dash cam footage from the vehicle, which was a rental car. She stated that someone had swerved and she attempted to avoid them.

 

Which rental cars have in-cabin dash cams???

 

Rented through Turo......

https://turo.com

I'd be surprised if you don't see this technology become widely present in all rental vehicles rapidly. Those companies are tailor made for a system which removes their liability and places it on the driver/renter.

 

Back again to update this thread because there was 0 information online about this when I was searching last week.

Yes I blew the ECU by starting the car without ground on the main harness. The code is aligned with this. ECU was sent off 9 days ago and is being returned to me tomorrow, cost me £330 from ECTesting in Derby UK to have it repaired.

Needless to say I'm about nervous about putting it back in. Is this a sufficient ground connection to get it to the garage? The ground wire is wedged onto the bolt, and the nut is as tight as it will go, with the other wire sandwiched against.








Thanks

 

Painted surfaces are high risk grounding points. Connect the blue cable directly to the battery ground connector.


Just to be safe, thoroughly wire brush the metal mating surfaces of both cable connectors and then tighten the nut-bolt fastener.

 

Aww man I'm sorry the ECU didn't survive.

I'm sure that ground would be ok because the bolt passes through the unpainted hole but ya might as well go to the battery ground or the ground on the motor mount. Passenger side.