Dead Instrument Cluster

[Azmale59]

Hi Everyone Im new here,this is really a Nice Forum to talk cars.I have a 1997 Jeep Cherokee 6 Cylinder 4 door.The Intrument Cluster panel seems dead no lights not gauges work,no idiot lights turn on.It was Working fine till today.I checked all the Fuses and all are good all have power thru them.Do these have a Tendency to go out that quick? Any Advice is Appreciated Thanks.

Frank

[wrightz28]

My 98's was really flakey when I had a undersized battery in it when I bought it. I'd be cruis'n downt he road and all teh gauges would just drop off, usually the airbag light would come on tho. Anyway, a quick whack on the top of the dash, and everything would go back normal. Since replacing the battery, it rarely ever happens if at all.

[mastertech1964]

actually its probably not the cluster itself they had issues with the electrical connectors to the cluster building up oxidation and then the clusters wouldnt work, most of the time if you whack the dash or push inward aganst the cluster it will work again for awhile, when i worked for jeep they had a repair connector available that you splice in and it solves the problem

[Azmale59]

Thanks Guys for your Ideas.I had to finally take it in to a jeep Service Center.its was a B plus wire to it that was not connected a a harness wire.Guess when I took it in the garage to have the alarm disabled they must have messed it up.
Boy some Garages are no good.

[javatrooper]

do you know how they disabled the alarm? I would like to get rid on one on a '96.

[mastertech1964]

im not positive on96 but the earlier ones you had to locate the security module start the car and while the car is running you unplug the security module if you unplug it without the car running it will never start

[Azmale59]

Hi Im not sure how they Disabled it.Thats a little complex for me how they wire that Module in.All I know is that they took out the Alarm Module and gave it to me.But it worked ,no more alarm.Car alarms are good but too much trouble with them sometime there a pain.