I just got a 2012 Mini Cooper R56 project to fiddle with. After dropping in a new battery, it will detect the key and do some flashing lights but it won't crank or turn over or anything like that. I registered the new battery with the Ancel tool. Radio, headlights, windows, blinkers all work.

One clue is that it's seemingly stuck in park (will it go out of park when not running?). I wonder if there's some kind of Neutral Safety Switch fault, though I can't find any trace of it. I get 3 wildly different results for that [at autozone](https://www.autozone.com/batteries-starting-and-charging/neutral-safety-switch/mini/cooper), not sure which one would be the right one or where to look for it.

So can anyone point me in the right direction on this? I have continuity tested all the fuses under the hood and in the Passenger footwell. The only sound when pressing the start button is a couple clicks from the passenger footwell fuse panel. I swapped around the three relays under the hood, that had no effect. None of the error codes seem related to anything major, it's all stuff like daytime running lights and passenger seat sensor. I could list them all here if it helps, let me know. I've tried everything I can think of so far, so I appreciate any kind of help I can get!