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What causes dash lights to go out when key to start no start or click?
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This sort of thing is battery or starter related.
Most likely the car battery is not sufficiently charged (and requires a jump-start). Typical symptoms: lights are dim, and very dim while starting.
If the jump start doesn't help, or you've tested the battery to be good, another option is the battery cables. Typical symptoms: headlights are strong, battery tests well, but as soon as you turn the key to "start", everything goes out, including the lights. A starter draws on the order of one hundred amps of current, which is enough to heat up and char away a marginal battery connection; sometimes the marginal connection even reestablishes itself after a few minutes to cool down, making this a difficult problem to diagnose. Sometimes this can be fixed by scraping/sanding away corrosion on the battery terminals; sometimes you need completely new battery terminal connectors or battery cables.
If the battery and cables are sound, it could also be the starter or starter solenoid. These can both be bench tested, but once you've gone to the work of removing them, people often replace them anyway.
Finally, it is possible there is an electrical short in the system, a bad switch in the ignition system, a blown main fuse, etc.
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