If the lights are all going off on the dash, it sounds like your starter motor is jammed or cannot turn the engine. If you cannot get a spanner onto the crank pulley bolt to turn it, put the gears into 4th or 5th, jack up a front wheel and turn the wheel, which will turn the engine, and free the starter. Don't forget to put it in neutral before you try the starter again! My CDT has been having intermittent starter issues, sometimes it will turn the engine first time, sometimes there is not even a click when I turn the key, and sometimes the engine will do half a turn before the starter stops turning. However, after 3 or 4 attempts, during which it may present either problem, it will eventually turn the engine and start. I never suffer your lights off -power failure symptom though! Weird!
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