Bizarre starting problem with my 2019 Navara D231 Tekna.

[Scooby=1234]

My pickup passed it's MOT recently but when I went to start it at the garage to come home it wouldn't turn over. Everything worked insofar as I could unlock it, the screen showed the usual messages & lights but when I pressed the clutch and pressed the button it wouldn't turn over. The key fob was in my pocket as it was when I unlocked it and so I took it out and laid it on the dashboard (I had put a new battery in it
about 6 months ago). I checked everything, all doors were closed. no lights were on that shouldn't have been on, etc.

So I called the mechanic and he came out, put his foot on the clutch, pressed he button and she fired up. And it's been O.K. for a week but today I had the same problem. Now- long story short - if I press the
brake pedal instead of/as well as the clutch pedal she turns over fine. Can anyone tell me what on Earth has gone wrong here please ?

Any help and/or advice great appreciated.

 

[Old.Tony]

It could just be a dodgy clutch switch. I had a brake switch with some soot inside it causing my tail lights to not operate, but cleaning the switch out fixed that.

I have no idea if they used the same sort of switches in yours, but mine were really easy to remove and open, clean and replace.

 

[Scooby=1234]

It could just be a dodgy clutch switch. I had a brake switch with some soot inside it causing my tail lights to not operate, but cleaning the switch out fixed that.

I have no idea if they used the same sort of switches in yours, but mine were really easy to remove and open, clean and replace.

Thank you for your help. What I don't understand is why, if putting my foot on the clutch doesn't allow the starting procedure, if I then put my foot on the brake pedal in just the same way as I have always put my foot on the clutch, it turns over as per normal.