Buzzberd

Just went out to start my car and when I pushed the starter button it cranked maybe two revolutions...and just stopped. Dash is completely blank and it does not show any lights, at all.

The car has never failed to crank over the entire time I've owned it and even with the coldest weather we've had this year over the past several days it never failed to turn over. I'm still at work and just picked up a meter to go back out and check some fuses and battery voltage. Can't see it being the battery as it cranks it fine all the time but I have had a battery fail me on the track once when it had a full charge.

If anybody has some insight into this kind of issue care to point me in a particular direction?

Tia

Syncmaster

Likely a dead battery. Start w/ swapping it out.

xpressive

Sounds like a bad battery to me..

If not that then the starter but I'll put money on the battery.

Buzzberd

Well... shit.

FWIW the battery still has a a full charge, but when I was checking the fuses in the main fuse box I noticed some weird looking shit underneath it. Seems there is a rodent that decided to make a nest underneath it recently. Goes from the back beside the battery to just in front of the fuse box. f@#kin rodent.

This explains why the inside dome light stopped working a few days ago, I was going to work on that this weekend.

windhund116

A guy I know had an M3. A little rodent buddy decided to make the wiring harness under the hood his home, over one winter. They LOVE to chew wires. He had to get a whole new wiring harness for that side of the engine. You don't want to know what it cost.

Hope your buddy didn't do too much damage.