1997 Chrysler Concorde lose power to gauges and air conditi

Tiny
STEELEBOSS
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  • 1997 CHRYSLER CONCORDE
  • 6 CYL
  • 2WD
  • AUTOMATIC
  • 187,000 MILES
Driving along I lose all power to my gauges on the dash everything goes out and the digital air and heat
I can't control that either if the air is on it goes off and the heat comes on all of this happens at once sometime it will all come back on that same day without me doing anything or it may come on when the car is restarted how can this be fixed
Saturday, June 19th, 2010 AT 9:20 AM

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Tiny
CARADIODOC
  • MECHANIC
  • 33,873 POSTS
Hi steeleboss. Welcome to the forum. It sounds like the ignition switch may have a bad contact or one of the plug-in terminals has overheated. If it will stay in the bad state, and it sounds like it will, you can use a test light or inexpensive digital voltmeter to check for voltage on the fuses for all of those things. If voltage is missing to all of those circuits at the same time, suspect something they all have in common, and that would be the switch.

If you want to troubleshoot this yourself to be sure I guessed right :) have the test light or voltmeter handy and holler back so I can dig out a service manual. You'll have to remove the trim covers around the upper steering column to get to the switch.

Caradiodoc
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010 AT 12:14 AM

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