Hi, Longtime Lurker first time poster. I've searched and searched. Went all through the no start thread. Can't find anything EXACTLY like my crazy car is doing.
2003 325i. We've had the car since 2007. Bought with 44k on it and has 125k now. Never had any issues other than brakes and a battery, rear trailing arm bushings, as well as most of the window regulators.
Drove the car Friday a week ago to the Chump Car 37 near Decatur, about 250 miles each way. Ran some errands in it, commuted from hotel to track a few times and came home the scenic way stopping and starting to visit places, take pics, etc on Monday. Car ran great (except for broken regulator on driver rear window, uneventful trip. Stupid regulators.)
Wednesday I was working on my truck (Duramax. Injectors. 3 day epic PITA.) so when my neighbor, who is a contractor, was spraying some doors in the driveway I moved the car around to the other side of the house. After they finished, I got in the car, put the key in and started it. Nothing on the dash did anything. As I drove around the block to park the car I pondered that and figured I'd restart when I got home and maybe it was an anomaly. When I shut it off to restart, it would not. Cranked just fine, but no fire. Tried again Wednesday morning, same thing, crank no fire. Thursday, repeat. I let it sit over the weekend as it seemed not starting as well as the dash being out may well have been the documented ignition switch. I tried the second key with the same result. Just cranks with no fire.
Got the switch Monday and swapped it in. Checked voltage, 12.34 at front jump post. Visually inspected all of the fuses related to dash and anything else I thought would effect either starting or the display to no effect. Since I had cranked on it some, I put it on the charger today as I messed under the hood to check the fuses there. Removed the block and visually inspected them all. They looked fine. Pulled the two relays near the front, visually inspected, and put them back along with the fuse block.
Just for grins, got in the car and cranked it and it fired up. No dash. Nothing. Turn signals work but indicators on dash do not, auto headlights work, I can lock and unlock door with the remote. But I get no chime when I put the key in and none of the warning lights come on except air bag indicator at position 2 and ABS at position 3. Put it in the garage since it's been in the driveway the last few days. Shut it off, and of course, no restart.
Are these likely two separate events? Seems to me they are related somehow. I've never had any dash anomalies nor a no-start scenario, yet now I have both. Where would you start?
2003 325i. We've had the car since 2007. Bought with 44k on it and has 125k now. Never had any issues other than brakes and a battery, rear trailing arm bushings, as well as most of the window regulators.
Drove the car Friday a week ago to the Chump Car 37 near Decatur, about 250 miles each way. Ran some errands in it, commuted from hotel to track a few times and came home the scenic way stopping and starting to visit places, take pics, etc on Monday. Car ran great (except for broken regulator on driver rear window, uneventful trip. Stupid regulators.)
Wednesday I was working on my truck (Duramax. Injectors. 3 day epic PITA.) so when my neighbor, who is a contractor, was spraying some doors in the driveway I moved the car around to the other side of the house. After they finished, I got in the car, put the key in and started it. Nothing on the dash did anything. As I drove around the block to park the car I pondered that and figured I'd restart when I got home and maybe it was an anomaly. When I shut it off to restart, it would not. Cranked just fine, but no fire. Tried again Wednesday morning, same thing, crank no fire. Thursday, repeat. I let it sit over the weekend as it seemed not starting as well as the dash being out may well have been the documented ignition switch. I tried the second key with the same result. Just cranks with no fire.
Got the switch Monday and swapped it in. Checked voltage, 12.34 at front jump post. Visually inspected all of the fuses related to dash and anything else I thought would effect either starting or the display to no effect. Since I had cranked on it some, I put it on the charger today as I messed under the hood to check the fuses there. Removed the block and visually inspected them all. They looked fine. Pulled the two relays near the front, visually inspected, and put them back along with the fuse block.
Just for grins, got in the car and cranked it and it fired up. No dash. Nothing. Turn signals work but indicators on dash do not, auto headlights work, I can lock and unlock door with the remote. But I get no chime when I put the key in and none of the warning lights come on except air bag indicator at position 2 and ABS at position 3. Put it in the garage since it's been in the driveway the last few days. Shut it off, and of course, no restart.
Are these likely two separate events? Seems to me they are related somehow. I've never had any dash anomalies nor a no-start scenario, yet now I have both. Where would you start?
