Engine does not crank (seized alternator) - Mini Cooper

The engine could not be rotated by hand and looked like it was seized engine (bad engine) but ended up being a seized alternator.
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[@machigane7902]

Thanks for posting this video. On my 2006 GP I had the exact same issue - car would try to start and just wouldn't budge. I replaced my 8 year old battery, starter, ignition switch.......all to no avail......until I finally found your video. Took the belt off, car started right up. New alternator installed, good to go. Thanks a bunch. I'm sure I'm not the only person to benefit from this knowledge. Thank you again for sharing.

[@machigane7902]

The reason my alternator seized was because I hit the mother of all potholes on shocks that were already on the brink.....at 80K on a 2006......and it cause a catastrophic failure to the metal housing of the alternator (and I'm sure the interior as well). New shocks all around and now I'm golden.

[@andrewolsen1659]

thinks, this was great to watch. i've been in this trade for about 13 years now, and can honestly say it would have taken me a little longer to work out it was a seized alternator. i would have expected to see a badly damaged belt to give it away for a start. thanks again, this gives me another tool to use in the shop

[@paulnickles2752]

Funny thing, Today a costumer walked over to the shop and said he needed a tow " My engine is making a lot of noise and now I cant start it and cranks slow."(Chevy Truck) So I drove over with a Battery jump pack and the Costumer. With the jumper it still cranks slow, after watching the Mini Cooper video yesterday at lunch I remembered to watch the pulleys during cranking and guess what yea the alternator was frozen, So I cut the belt off and the truck started right up. The costumer was happy not to pay for a Tow. I Love the Videos, So Helpful.

[@kingdavid2266]

This don't make no sense dude. If you had to jump the battery but you cut the belt off. Then without the belt the alternator won't charge the battery and the battery will die right away again. Where is ur brain dude

[@malondc1]

Today i did a diag no start and very slow crank i watched this video about a month ago and the first thing i did is remove the serp belt and the car started right away . Ac compressor seized up. Thank you very much paul! Custumer was very happy

[@tomdewey9907]

Paul, Yet another great case study video in your series. I would have never guessed a seized alternator could have been the cause of the engine drag. That goes to show how tough those serpentine belts really are. Would have expected the belt to snap. first or the starter motor to have burned up (again???) Good job; and keep these case studies coming. Tom

[@samuelmizrahi5207]

Can’t thank you enough for posting this. I have limited repair knowledge and this helped me realize why my Mini Cooper that sat for 2 years was barely cranking after putting in a new battery. Was about to replace starter before o saw this and found out my alternator was seized. Interestingly the alternator pulley would only spin backwards. Great video.

[@ElectronicWorkshop]

Nice one Dan Back in the early 80's ,before all the Hi tech in cars, that's a test we carried out by hand to check for a seized engine, ie disconnecting all the loads on the engine whilst either pushing the car or turning the wheel

[@gentelmanjunkie542]

Such great videos man. I cant thank you enough for putting these out.

[@ScannerDanner]

Thank you!

[@machigane7902]

Thank you for posting this video. I have a 2006 Mini Cooper S GP with 88K and initially I thought I drained the battery. It was manufactured in 2010 so I figured 8 years old it was due. Changed to an Optima Red Top 34R and still wouldn't start. Bought a starter, still wouldn't start. I should have tried taking off the belt. Once I did that, it started right up and I couldn't move the pulley on the alternator 1mm - it was 100% seized. Thank you again for your help.

[@JoelAutomotiveInaction]

thank you Paul, you did not zero you high amp probe not big deal another variable Paul will be clutch we had a mini cooper was making the click only on the started I and some times cranks super slow, I though it was bad engine when we contacted the owner he said he was feeling the clutch pedal weird hard days before , we place the car on the hoist and it started no load it was bad clutch, thank you for sharing this good video.

[@chris_d]

The whole diagnosis part wasn't particularly helpful for me, but the fact that the symptoms matched my car and you were the first source (of MANY I had tried) I saw suggesting a seized alternator pulley and lo - I went out to my car immediately, jacked it up, removed the front-right wheel, attempted to manually turn the crank pulley (impossible), removed the belt and confirmed the seized alternator pulley. So I do have to thank you very much!

[@DJDevon3]

I won't be forgetting this one anytime soon. That's so awesome. Congrats to whoever bought the car at the auction!

[@theomnipresent1]

Was the belt slipping on the pulley when it cranked or was the starter actually able to spin the alternator pulley?

[@bitcoinbusker]

Thanks Man. You seem to be the only one on youtube showing this. My R53 has identical fault. So this could well be the cause, You got another sub! Thanks again!

[@76kamikazi]

K.I.S.S Peoples that’s what i was taught by my journeyman when I was a apprentice,best advice he ever gave me.

[@Ken-1]

Had to revisit this one after a call today.. No crank, no start, only a click from the starter. No dice after putting TWO separate starters in it. Remembered your training in the heat of my frustration, back to basics. 450 amps flat on starter wire while key in crank position, crank pulley seized, removing spark plugs didnt help, acc pulleys smooth. Sure enough, dipstick showed only a drop of black oil, and customer was 6 months overdue for an oil change! Calling it an engine. Apparently not too uncommon on the 2013 Sonata

[@GammaCruxis]

Another great video - thanks Paul! It makes me wonder why so many will jump to the worst case scenario when a few things don't work at first. Overheating? Blown head gasket! Slow crank? Seized engine! People need to look at all of the lesser possibilities first. Well done sir! :)

[@ekimbrough1413]

Excellent Paul!

[@MoparMadness93]

Good video. People would be surprised what seized pulleys will do. I’ve seen quite a few seized ac compressor pulleys keep a powerstroke from cranking like engine was seized. Undo the belt and it fires right up. Pretty crazy considering how much torque the Diesel starters put out

[@Karelvermaere]

Great video again Mr. Danner. TNX! This is gonna make me a lot more aware in the future dealing with situations like these. For all the same you start taking the whole thing apart before you catch this.

[@LynxStarAuto]

Cool vid Paul. I specialize on European cars myself. Another common issue with Minis/BMWs which causes all kinds of crazy symptoms and is commonly misdiagnosed is the BST battery cable. As soon as you mentioned auction, I said another BST victim. :) crazy someone sent that Mini off to the chopping block.

[@brandondonaldson3330]

saved me a whole lot of time and money...exact cause of my mini problem...cheers.

[@ScannerDanner]

Awesome! This car went to auction for a supposed bad engine. I'm glad you didn't go that direction

[@glen-ozzstarscars8474]

I've seen similar symptoms with a seized a/c compressor, more than one time. Sometimes the belt will burn up and snap/slip off the pulleys which makes the diagnoses much easier and other times the belt shows no symptoms, like in this seized alternator case. Great practical video. Thanks

[@gvvq-pi5ml]

Awesome video Paul, really good stuff, i have had simlar, think mine was a seized engine, i wonder in hindsight if you could have looked at the fan belt to see if it turned or smoked/ smelt when cranking, i know easy to say afterwards,,,when you first cranked it i thought it sounded like a broken cam belt...good stuff...Fred UK.

[@testpilot1us]

I wish I had seen your video a year ago. New battery, new starter, just figured out frozen alternator!

[@steffanthomas2855]

hi, i have had this exact problem with the same car, this one turned over faster and the actual difference in cranking speed was only 15 rpm. 185rpm and it would fire on the first couple of cylinders then flood, after removing the belt it cranked at 200 rpm and fired instantly. I took lots of wave forms with the pico of the cranking amps, crank and cam sensors, ignition primary and injectors. I learnt a lot from the ignition waveform the way the spark dropped off at the end of the burn time etc. I have only been using the scope for 18months or so but find your videos very helpful. I will email the wave forms over to you if you would like a look.

[@ScannerDanner]

post them to my forum! thank you!

[@Mark1944089]

Great work Scanner Danner

[@mlb0611]

I have run into this several times on Fords with a VS10 compressor locked up, remove belt and boom engine runs. So I always R&R belt on locked up engines to make sure before calling it as a engine

[@peterdatechmen5506]

Shows how effective auto tensioner is to tighten belt to prevent slip lol!

[@stigman24]

Scanner dan U are the man . Amazing video. Thank you so much for showing this , I learned alot

[@ChrisWilson5006]

If you Google "mini cooper seized alternator" you will see this is a very common issue. here in the UK where these things are on every street corner it's a well known issue. Did the belt actually manage to turn the alternator, or was it slipping? They often just melt the belt, with acrid smoke and jellified rubber everywhere :) Another great video SD :)

[@michaelovitch]

It's the bearings ?

[@timb7742]

looks like a supercharged mini to me

[@tedhartman8049]

Question. Isn't the Pico Scope way superior to the snap on scope at least in it's functionality and resolution? You are so good with scopes I would think you would use the Pico? I have a 2000 series Pico "wish I had the automotive class Pico" our shop has the Snap on Triton D10 at 7K , the 175$ Pico just seems better. How come you don't have a Pico "cart" setup at your brothers shop so you can use snap on with Pico I would think that's the winning combo. and

[@ScannerDanner]

It truly is, but I can do most of the tests I need with my Verus scope and we use screen recorders, so when I break out the pico, I have to add another screen recorder and I already have one going on my Verus for codes and scan data. That is the only reason you don't see it more

[@gvvq-pi5ml]

Hi Paul well it seems to run all the way through using google chrome and not Internet Explorer 10, but that it probably to do with my computer or my end and nothing your end, so think it's ok, i wonder when you tried to turn the crank if you rocked it a bit, if it had been engine prob would have been rigid, i bet it moved slightly either way...i suspect an alternator for that not cheap, that's a German BMW cooper i guess so not the old English one...best wishes...Fred UK.

[@normangallant9879]

Cool test

[@GL0697]

I've seen a/c compressors damaged internally causing this same issue.

[@alvarorojas3651]

I had a ford zx2 do the same thing but it was the ac compressor that was locking up only at times. I'm still little lost on understanding amps

[@gabet3754]

the greater the resistance the engine has, the more current it will draw to overcome that resistance. but in this case and yours, it was an accessory bogging down the engine.

[@kevingallich5557]

Awesome video Paul. Thnx.

[@vanmeures3689]

I work in health care and this is the kind of problem we see everyday...wrong diagnosis people end up going through wrong procedures and taking unnecessary meds (in this case changing parts without proper diagnosis)...it is all about critical thinking!

[@ScannerDannerPremium]

Nice, I can see that. Great comparison, thank you. I have always considered what I do as being a "car doctor" Only difference is when I make a bad call, I don't kill anyone. There is a reason they call it "practicing medicine" though right?

[@mikerepair1457]

scannerdanner is the best

[@CaptainGimp]

Legend. Learning so much from your videos!

[@spelunkerd]

It's such a knee jerk to throw in a battery and starter motor, so I suppose getting burned with a case like this is not surprising. With that sound I would have been thinking battery, then I would have done a drop test. Then I would have paused, wondering how to make sense of it! The real clue came from the high current drain from the starter motor, but only if the tech had the insight to measure current draw. Gotta start doing that routinely. I like to think that on a good day I would have considered some kind of mechanical problem, ha ha. You realize that your videos are better than a mystery movie on Saturday night? Only thing is, they don't usually disclose the name of the villain in the title (grin). How about, "Mystery challenge -- crank no start".

[@ScannerDanner]

thank you brother! unfortunately the titles are this way to guide the searchers if that makes sense. People have a specific problem that they search for and the title needs to reflect that. It does give away the clues for the mystery movie people like you. I wish I could find a balance in that :-) Don't read the title haha

[@hendersonjp]

Ace video many thanks from,John in the UK

[@timjkiely]

Brilliant video

[@gvvq-pi5ml]

Hi Paul my be my computer but the mini cooper clip appears to stop at about 8 minutes, can skip 1 minute and it carries on...might be me Fred uk

[@ScannerDanner]

when I first upload these HD videos, there are some playback issues initially

[@ottard]

Another awesome video!

[@prmayner]

Use to run into this a lot when they first started with the serp. belts. Mostly it was the ac comp. locked up, down here in Texas and all.

[@andrewdomenitzdmd]

You said turbocharged. It is supercharged so that could be seized also. 2007 and forward are turbocharged. Very nice vid. I own one of these.

[@waterlover]

what about when a 2003 mini cooper s won't even crank but all dash lights turn on and not even a crank

[@ReedsAuto]

Had something similar to this on my Trans Am. A/C pump froze up, I had to reach down and cut the belt (A/C only) to get it home.

[@johnnym4220]

I always thought high amperage would be the result of low resistance like a shorted starter armature or field coil. Didn't know a mechanical failure would have the same result.

[@Mummyy84]

We get a car that didnt start after heavy storm. Customer sayd that it wasent swiming in water. Well we find water in its air pipes. Today waterlevel dont nead to be a deep to car get it inside its intakes. Even great angel of rain may do it as it was in our case. So after havey rain with allmost no grank or non i tale plugs (spark or glow) out to see if i get "rain" from engine.

[@Mikeyddread]

Great video !

[@clapton924]

Great video!

[@jordydereus]

thanks for your vids , i love then i learn a lot !

[@MrJAa85]

But why the high current with the serpentine belt seized up? I need to understand this... It's mechanical resistance, how does the starter "know" it needs to work harder? If it was electrical resistance the current would've been lower, right? So that's the opposite of this kind of resistance I guess. And also, wouldn't the system voltage drop more than normal during cranking with this high current we saw initially? Please help me understand this! Love your channel btw! ::)

[@ScannerDanner]

It is becoming more and more difficult to answer questions here. I have 80,000 people asking me for help now. So I have created a forum to help you guys better. It is free to join and we can exchange pictures, wiring diagrams and waveforms if needed to help guide you through the process of troubleshooting your vehicle. Thank you so much! Hope to see you there. Paul Danner (ScannerDanner) www.scannerdanner.com/forum/post-your-repair-questions-here.html

[@theomnipresent1]

It is due to electric motor properties. When a motor is loaded down it draws more current automatically; when a motor is forced to run slower than it would free spin, the current goes up until no more current can flow and it stalls the motor. If you could jam motor output shaft and completely keep it from spinning and apply voltage you would get the maximum amperage reading.

[@MrJAa85]

theomnipresent1 Thank you :)

[@theomnipresent1]

SomeCoolName No problem man! If I could elaborate on my previous answer I would say a few key things to help with intuition... ~Lowering resistance increases current, and increasing resistance lowers current flow. ~Higher amps increase the strength of a magnetic field. ~Higher magnetic field in motor windings increases torque. ~Slowing/loading down a motor effectively "decreases" the resistance of the motor. Knowing these facts you can see that you can now see how it works. When a motor is loaded down its resistance decreases, so the current flow increases. That increased current flow creates a stronger magnetic field, which induce a higher torque applied to the load. If the increased torque is not enough to overcome the load the motor is further slowed which starts the cycle over again. This will continue until the motor is stalled at maximum current flow only limited by the electrical resistance of the windings. If the load disappears the rpm will increase and the opposite will occur. The effective resistance will increase, decreasing current to a point where the motor finds its balance at a minimum running current where a motor runs most efficiently.

[@theomnipresent1]

I hope this was helpful, I had the same questions at one time.

[@seniorjuanvaldez]

frozen or locked up accessory! had that on a 99 f150 locked up ac clutch!

[@gvvq-pi5ml]

Hi Paul no I don't think it you, it's my end, seems like every clip stops at 8min 9 seconds, not just yours...I think it either internet explorer 10 or my virus scanner, its perfect with google chrome, prob ok with firefox...cheers Fred.

[@reklessevilkid]

can you do vw jetta 1.8 engine p1557 code fault????? boost pressure positive deviation fault.

[@ScannerDanner]

+REKSTER FERNANDEZ only if one comes in to my school with that issue. thanks

[@reklessevilkid]

I understand. I graduated from apex tech school here in nyc in 2003. I wish i wouldve went to your class at the time. The amount of information and the way you explain your diagnostic procedures is pricless. I have forgot most of electrical diagnostic capabilities over the time of 11 years but got really good at my mechanical background but since i started watching your videos i have learned so much and i am very happy to found your youtube page. I just purchased your ebook two days ago and it has helped me. I will be buying a vantage soon also and going to start building my strength in electrical diagnostic because i actually enjoy looking up schematics and doing electrical work but i wasnt used to it but now i will push my self to become a better technician with the help of your ebook and videos. Im a new student for life. Thanks Mr. Danner!!!!

[@ScannerDanner]

+REKSTER FERNANDEZ awesome, thank you! Did we set you up with your free month coupon for my premium channel yet? If not, look for an email from me later today. I'm behind will all my emails right now. Thanks again!

[@reklessevilkid]

+ScannerDanner thanks yea i will be. can i ask you just for a direction atleast please. ive been working on this car at my job for a week. vw jetta 1.8 turbo. i have 2 codes. p1557 positive deviation and p1297 pressure drop between throttle and turbo. i smokes the engine no leaks. it has a map sensor and a maf. burning real rich at the spark plugs fouled black. no codes for map sensor but i suspect it needs to be changed. i have a verus at the shop. please point me in the right direction atleast.

[@Pengy39]

Do a teardown on that alternator! What melted to seize it up?

[@mikeluscher159]

Excessive amperage +/- High load = Physical/Mechanical Resistance. Makes sense....

[@lovetolearn5253]

when testing compression do you use volts or amps to measure

[@ScannerDanner]

depends on the amp clamp and scope I am using. On the Snap-on units I am using a low amp probe, which is not designed for high amperage testing, so I use a volts DC setting and do some math.

[@lovetolearn5253]

ok thanks I thought volts is a little cleaner signal in doing compression but thanks again

[@eliezeraldana6147]

wowww man i love your videos!!!!!!! and hopefully you can do more european cars!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JOHNPHUFNAGEL]

a friend of mine has a small block Chevy that was making a chirping sound for a week or 2 then one day it stalled and would not crank over he took the engine completely out before he found the alternator was locked up He was pissed

[@catap977]

I have seen swelled convertors and seized super charger

[@Travisfromoregon]

Hi, Danner I've got burned by this before, only it was on a Cummins ISM The Injector fuel pump wasn't building pressure fast enough. So I had the customer buy a rebuilt pump and Installed it with same results, fuel pressure takes to long to build. Found the cause in those pesky simple pre checks. Engine speed must be a minimum of 150 RPM, new starter motor fixed the problem. Here is a link to another video about seize pulleys. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4W8kmeFpcmIpNUm30s

[@murrmann7234]

How can i obtain a electrical schematic of my vehicle as a diy. Thanks

[@ScannerDanner]

scannerdanner.com/forum/post-your-repair-questions-here/16-need-service-info-check-here.html

[@sivucit]

hi, if my starter is bad, how does he hump looks like, will it be flat .. do we have any videos on that, please. also if starter is bad does it draw more amp or less amp or could be both. if i have bad ground will the starter take more amp or less amp.. pls advise

[@ScannerDanner]

The waveform characteristic will depend on a lot of variables. If the motor is not spinning then, yes, there will be no "humps". If the motor is spinning, the speed that it is spinning and the forces it encounters that slow the speed down will also change what the waveform looks like. Remember it is not just compression forces that can slow the starter down. Slower speed = higher amps

[@sivucit]

Thanks so much. Paul

[@marksponge9852]

I would look to see if the car or at-least the engine has been for a dip in the ocean. That bottom crank pulley looked awfully corroded. Getting salt water in the alternator and letting it sit would explain it seizing up....If this is the case the new owner should sell it ASAP..before the body starts to go..

[@ScannerDanner]

nah, its just the good old rust belt of southwestern PA. :)

[@asustech0079]

1.6 liter engine, that's small, turn the AC on and the engine dies... lol. Seriously though, I'd check to make sure that belt wasn't too tight prematurely wearing a bearing out. I've encountered bearings locking before, and most generally the belt will burn into while driving down the road. I wonder if that bad bearing immediately seized up after the engine was shut down, assuming the alternating bearing itself was the problem?

[@ModMINI]

The 2002 MINI Cooper S with supercharger makes 161HP. You can barely tell the performance difference with the AC on or off. The belt is self-adjusting via a spring tensioner. The car was probably left sitting and it seized in place. From the video there appears to be some salt corrosion.

[@asustech0079]

*****"The car was probably left sitting and it seized in place." Mind telling me how just sitting causes an alternator to seize if nothing else was wrong with it? Funny, all those cars over the years I've started that sat for who knows how long, and yet I don't recall a alternator seizing up because it just sat.... ? Unless of coarse the engine was left out in the rain to sit there and rust, but then you usually don't even mess with engines that bad to begin with, those are considered parts engines.

[@aserta]

***** I believe you're confusing salt + rust corrosion with simple rust corrosion. If you have salt corrosion the process is triple the normal one and because of electrolysis parts will get seized up on a very small scale IE far harder to unfreeze a salty bearing than a rusty one. IMO salty corrosion is the worst thing that can happen to a car. It's like metal termites. And inside the alternator a part with multiple metals, it's like salt corrosion heaven, complete with water and electricity.

[@ltkaffey]

A seized manual transmission can catch you out.Put your foot on the clutch to be sure!

[@ltkaffey]

Arsenal not all manuals have a clutch safety switch

[@Mummyy84]

ltkaffey Allso cluch release can be broken, sean many times but as today they have bean so that starter is strongenaf to start the car in gear. when handbreack is of ofcorse. You normaly see movement in body and thats gives the problem up.

[@sara78130]

u number one thanks

[@johnjames1662]

Mr Danner I have a 1988 camry with the famous 3sfe. I got the car really cheap it didn't run got it home and timing belt was out of time dramatically. I had it running one day an it died mysteriously and couldn't get it goin again. I rechkd timing belt was on the money. I chkd compression 142 psi every cylinder and it sounds good rolling engine over. All my block and body grounds and battery grounds are good to. Checkd fuel pump by jumper +b an fp could feel fuel flowing at fuel filter and injectors, chekd fuel psi at cold start valve its 42 psi while cranking tinjectors are also getting a pulse from computer. I have a nice fat spark on every plug, coil resistance readings are good. Im getting a signal from igniter back to computer about 1.5 volts. I have a good running parts car and swapped computers, distributors and car still will not start. I chekd engine main relay the ignition relay, circuit opening relay and all fuses they are good. I put computer in diagnoses mode and it has one long blank and 4 short blanks I figure that is a code 14. I know the ecu is good I chkd igf and igt terminals at computer im getting a pulse and a ground there I don't understand why the computer keeps saying that even after I unhook battery for 20 minutes. Could it be possible I have a broken wire in that circuit cause I chkd all the wires on the igniter they all had continuity. Could there be a bad sensor that is keeping it from running? On my parts car I found it will still start and run if the tps wire is unhookd so I thnk that sensor wouldn't stop it from starting? Im really stumped on this car if you have any suggestions that would be greatly appreciated

[@Automotive_Solutions]

Nice job. I wonder if this vehicle was condemned by a mechanic as having a seized engine and the poor owner cut his losses by sending it to the auction. Not good if it was.

[@ScannerDannerPremium]

yep, pretty sure that is the way it went

[@ModMINI]

ScannerDanner Premium Pretty stupid mechanic if that was the case. (There are a lot of stupid mechanics out there!)

[@petrmiskerik]

Great video Danny, thx also Erict (etcg), now i know you and you chanel is super!

[@contagiousFX]

Genius

[@dennizkasiko312]

AS REGARDS THE BOOK PLEASE, CAN YOU ENABLE US PAY VIA VISA

[@ScannerDanner]

Yes, you can. There is an option to pay without a PayPal account. PayPal still handles the transaction though

[@tpcoachfix]

Always check the basics first.

[@zoroluva]

Wow that was amazing!

[@fivefortyeye540i]

Cars are sold fast on the auction block less then 30 sec.. This buyer still payed some change just because it's a mine engine or no engine.. Superior vid, man I don't even really watch those other carguys anymore.. This is wher it's at !

[@ScannerDanner]

thanks man

[@MikeIllusion92]

You're going to have had one happy owner, not a dud engine. Fairly cheap repair in comparison to what it could have been.

[@retroguitarmaster]

Awsome

[@billrimmer5596]

Serpentine belts r really strong.

[@ahill007ny]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[@import0408]

I got burrned on 1 once called engine needed compressor

[@ScannerDanner]

I did too Justin. In the video, I mentioned a seized starter motor. On that car, I called it a bad engine. Worst part, it was someone from my church that I was "helping" for free. They sold the car to someone I worked with for $500. I am still shaking my head on that one.

[@oseiboakye2626]

turbo charger intercooler on top of engine

[@JONNYMOORE10]

Supercharged mate, no turbo.

[@ScannerDanner]

thanks for the clarification :-)

[@Shamus71]

I thought you were going to discover a seized supercharger.

[@demojoker9216]

It’s supercharged not turbo charged!

[@ScannerDanner]

Yes thanks, sorry

[@bhaggen]

Lab scope? Good way to make a mountain out of a mole-hill! Chasing spikes & hash generally digs you into a big hole. Stop digging, back up, start with the basics!

[@arnold9526]

Thats a Mini Cooper S mate! The battery is in the boot and it also has a fooking super charger on the top of the engine. Not rocket science to work it out that your talking about the wrong car spec

[@ScannerDanner]

And that affected our diagnosis how? 🤔

[@TheMutedMajority]

Your expensive tool didn't tell you shit. The readings would have been the same whether the engine was seized or the alternator. How can you say you gained any valuable information from that when your engine teacher deserves the credit. on a lighter note, I did like the video and appreciate you showing this awesome fix.

[@scottfirman]

My neighbor put the wrong starter in his car,after he put it in,the car couldnt start. He foolishly thought the motor had seized up. He sold it to my other neighbor whom bought it and dropped the starter right in front of my neighbor after he bought it and showed him the starter was the wrong one. He was a rotten person because he told him it didnt matter,he had already sold it. He put another starter in it and drove it home. He sold it a few days later. I quit hanging around around him a few weeks later after he stole a couple snow mobiles from someone. My neighbor said he didnt care about the car but I felt bad he got ripped off. Any time you replace a part and the issue goes from bad to worse,suspect that new part. Never ever assume a replacement part is ok. I did a timing job where they never put a timing mark on the new timing gear. We compaired the replacement new one with the other new one that had no mark.All they said was oops!

[@Happy-Me.]

For a German car I don't rate the Mini!! VW Dubs/Audi rule!!

[@Happy-Me.]

I've recently found out that some Minis use a Peugeot engine. Rubbish!

[@1MotoXRacer1]

Ergh Mini's are junk.

[@jantzenpacheco7007]

So this guy for sure doesn't know about cars BC if he did he would know that 2002 r53 mini is supercharged not turbo charged.

[@ScannerDanner]

lol you're right. I don't have a clue, I just pretend to know things. And you are correct, it is a supercharged engine...

[@billrimmer5596]

Scanner Danner has forgotten more about cars than we know.

[@gregallen690]

I own the exact same car same year. They are awesome, but needy cars. If you're not rich you better be mechanically inclined 4sure!!! I've done over $10,000 worth of quoted work myself. Way more!!!!! Not sure how you freed up alternator??? Just replaced mine two days ago. Oh ya, two days before that I rebuilt a.c compressor only to rip the front end off again!!!!! Love Hate relationship for sure!!! This is my 3rd one. I'll always own 01-06 r53 they fly!!!!! ( when they run🤪) p.s you said it's a turbo. It's not, it's supercharged. Turbo started in 07. Cars are junk from 07 all the way to now. 2023