My R53 won't start, and I think it is the clutch switch (BMW part #: 61-31-9-122-702-BOE)

Does anyone have a wiring diagram for it? It has three wires, so I'm afraid to jumper it for fear of shorting/burning something out. If I knew which wires were which, I could jumper it and see if that's the problem.

Thanks!

 

Can you push start it?

 

Well... I could push start it until Friday. I went to pick it up from one mechanic to take it to a Mini specific mechanic.

I push started it and drove it about 20 miles before it died. And it died an awful death. It seemed like a complete electrical meltdown.

About 2 miles from mechanic #1, the power steering went out. Then it came back a minute or so later. Then my ABS light came on. Then it started raining, so I put on my wipers. (This whole time I'm driving 65mph down the highway.) The wipers acted like they were in slow motion. I had to put them on the highest setting just to get them to move enough so I could see.

Then it quit raining, and off went the wipers. That's when I noticed that my RPM gauge was reading 1,000 rpm constantly. It didn't change, no matter what speed the engine was at. I looked at my center gauge cluster and my fuel and temp gages were dead - the needles buried at the bottom.

Then my dash speedometer died, but the odometer was still lit. Then my steering column digital read out died along with all other lights and read outs and gauges.

A few minutes/miles later the car started running rough, like it wanted to quit. Within a few minutes of that, I had to pull over when the engine quit running.

I had it towed from there (80 miles) to a mechanic that specializes in Minis (and a bunch of other cool cars). But there was a big local event (The Vintage Grand Prix) in town, so they won't be able to look at it until Monday - maybe Tuesday.

Ugh.

Anyone else have this or a similar problem?

I really hope my ECU isn't fried, and I really hope there isn't mechanical damage to the engine from running it while the electrical system was freaking out.

 

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