Intermittent issues

CHRISK

MEMBER
1998 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER
6 CYL
2WD
AUTOMATIC
141,000 MILES

I have a 1998 Plymouth Voyager Van. It runs fine but every once in a while the dashboard goes out and if I have headlights on, they go out along with the tail lights. It is not all the time but I would say if I drive for 20 minutes there will be five of those minutes that everything goes dead. What is this all about? Any ideas?

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JACOBANDNICKOLAS

MECHANIC
109,709 POSTS

If by dash going out you are refering to the lights, start by checking the headlight switch. It is responsible for power to all the lights you mentioned.

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Thursday, January 20th, 2011 AT 5:22 PM

CHRISK

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Everything electrical intermittently goes out (headlights, taillights, dashboard lights, cap lights, digital odometer, gas gage, oil pressure gage, winshield wipers, you name it at one time. In other words nothing works except the car keeps driving fine and the radio seems to work thru it all. Then all of a sudden everything comes back on, then all might flicker, then might stay off for a while, then back on, etc. All the while the car is still driving. The bad part is that when I am driving at night, the lights go out so I manually hold the bright lights stick so that I can see.