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Mini 1.6 2008 - Dash stays on with key removed #

Posted by Paul Howd on January 28, 2016, 3:56 pm

Year of Manufacture *: 2008
Engine Size and Code *: 1.6

Strange one here.

Dash displays (Temp Milage)remain on with key removed, along with radio etc display in centre console.

ABS light also remains on.

Sometimes engine doesn't stop with key removed.

This does not appear to be an ignition switch issue since it still does it even with the switch unplugged.

I am guessing that there is some fault causing a back flow of electricity into the cluster but it is difficult to see where it might be coming from.

Interrogating the cluster got a result of

Fault code 33, terminal 50 on, terminal 15 off.

Which I think is confirming my suspicions whilst at the same time telling me very little else!

Anybody seen this before?

Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed

Posted by andy pethig on January 28, 2016, 4:29 pm, in reply to "Mini-dash stays on with key removed"
Andrew Pethig

look in passenger foot well , pull up carpet and you will find corroded multi plugs, by fuse board. common fault.

Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed

Posted by Paul Howd on January 28, 2016, 6:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed"
Paul Howd

Thank you very much for quick response.

this fits, it is a ragtop and the owner suggested that he first started getting various electrical problems when the weather got bad!

is there an easy fix for the bad connectors or is it major rewiring time?

Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed

Posted by andy pethig on January 28, 2016, 7:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed"
Andrew Pethig

the last one i did , i just dried every thing out and moved the connectors up off the floor, but if its all green and nasty, and the pins are broken, cut the plug out and join up the wires. is one option.

Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed

Posted by Paul Howd on January 28, 2016, 9:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Mini-dash stays on with key removed"
Edited by board administrator February 2, 2016, 10:59 am

Thanx for that, I will see where this goes.

Past experience is that water damage is always the end of a reliable machine however!

Customer bought the car last April with some sort of warranty.

If the warranty is still active the best option might well be to try to give it back.

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