Hello all. Addressing a new to me 2013 Countryman S, 45,000 odo. in distress. Apologies if something similar has been raised before but I couldn't find anything quite comparable to my predicament.

Coming home from work last Thursday on the ol' PA turnpike running about 80mph I punched it to pass a string of slow traffic and lost power. Met with the half yellow engine lamp. I pulled off to the side and happened to have a code reader on hand. It triggered Mass Air Flow sensor fault and misfires at cylinders 1 & 3. I was able to slowly limp home based on the "safe to continue" albeit "carefully" prompt. Come morning I had a look-see and immediately noticed the air intake boot into the turbo was separated by a good 3 inches and cracked unsurprisingly. Having sorted that issue out I again started her up and this time all codes cleared except for #3 misfire. Upon investigation I found the ignition coil melted beyond recognition. All other coils and plugs checked out fine. After cleaning up that mess I replaced the coil and plugs across the board. Within 30 seconds of restart the brand new coil also went into meltdown. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of or experienced something like this? Restoring proper airflow seems to have sorted everything except that, and now I'm wondering if the intake problem created a secondary problem and if so, what got knocked out of whack? I feel like I'm right at the edge of cracking the case but when I research possibilities it seems like I'd be taking a number of blind stabs and possibly spending precious money on a fruitless effort. Any help would be greatly appreciated by this great hive mind of knowledgeable folks.
Best regards,
-Ian

 

Some of the factory coils fail or get hot. But dont melt. Sounds like a coil plug issue or maybe the wires going to it go damaged.