Mini broken down - finally fixed - what a day!
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Classic mini Mayfair 1993 has had an intermittent fault for ages now. I very rarely drive it and so most times I did it caught me out. Thought I'd fixed it on Thursday as a mate who knows what he's doing sorted a few poor connections off the battery.
Broke down Friday night - AA couldn't start and had to be towed after a 2 hour wait.
Spent 6 hours today trying to fix it - what a day.
My mate really knows his way around them so it wasn't like it took longer because we didn't know what we were doing.
Basically the radio would come on and all lights n that work but ignition lights (battery and oil pressure) wouldn't come on. Checked all the circuits but everything seemed to be ok. Issues further complicated by the fact that the 1993 model seemed to have elements of wiring from pre and post 1994 models so the wiring diagram in the Haynes manual didn't match up.
Ended up getting to the immobilisor behind the dash which we though was the problem - in the end we think it was the live to it that was faulty (the live that is only live when ignition is in position 2) but instead of finding that circuit we just supplied a new one.
Bit of a bodge but after 6 hours we couldn't start looking for the fault - nothing seems to be affected - just lost the immobilisor but don't think that was doing anything anyway!
Broke down Friday night - AA couldn't start and had to be towed after a 2 hour wait.
Spent 6 hours today trying to fix it - what a day.
My mate really knows his way around them so it wasn't like it took longer because we didn't know what we were doing.
Basically the radio would come on and all lights n that work but ignition lights (battery and oil pressure) wouldn't come on. Checked all the circuits but everything seemed to be ok. Issues further complicated by the fact that the 1993 model seemed to have elements of wiring from pre and post 1994 models so the wiring diagram in the Haynes manual didn't match up.
Ended up getting to the immobilisor behind the dash which we though was the problem - in the end we think it was the live to it that was faulty (the live that is only live when ignition is in position 2) but instead of finding that circuit we just supplied a new one.
Bit of a bodge but after 6 hours we couldn't start looking for the fault - nothing seems to be affected - just lost the immobilisor but don't think that was doing anything anyway!
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