97 Voyager electrical problems.. Please help!

[hanikai]

hi, I have some electrical problems in my 97 grand voyager... any help would be great! I don't know if these are all seperate problems or somehow linked...

1. The Guages (Speedo, Temp, feul etc.) go on and off all the time. Like the whole panel is faulty... sometimes when I get frustrated and give the dash a thump, they turn on, (but not all the time)

2. The light on the radio/clock doesn't work.

3. The blower position switch for the A/C stopped working, (can't change from floor position, to face, to windscreen etc.)

4. The A/C on/off button and the one next to it always flash for the first fifteen minutes after I start the van, then goes to normal.

Pleas if anyone can help me with any of this it would be great, I can't afford to take it to an auto electrition.

Mahalo!
Jasmine

[dlowings]

its a long shot but remove the battery cable for 5 to 10 min. It kinda sounds like the BCM might be going bad. Are you using the standard Plymoth key to start it ? I had this one case where the person was using a wallmart key, and when I compaired it to the standard Plymoth key the profile of the key was different. For some reason the crap key was trying to put the BCM in limp mode, When I had an original plymouth key cut the guy never had the problem again. I still dont totaly understand it but it worked and thats why I call it a long shot.