Dash Wiring problems of the 1999 Jeep Cherokee

Erratic, intermittent instrumentation cluster, failure (shut-down) while driving, including speedometer, oil pressure gauge, amp gauge, temperature gauge, odometer,gas gauge and tachometer gauge. Isolated occurrences without warning made it difficult to explain. Because of safety concerns this equipment failure as noted in company service bulletins (081599) should have been reported to the vehicle owners and repaired at Chrysler expense.

Dealer replaced instrument panel cluster module and problm has reoccurred. Taken back to the dealer, and informed consumer that a wire was founded broken and replaced it again. No problems at this time. Consumer does not feel that he should have been charged, vehicle had been worked on during a recall repair regarding the air bag on June 7th of 2000.

Since Jan. 2000, the vehicle gauges have intermittingly failed ie, not registering reading to include speed, mileage, water temperature, oil pressure, tachometer and air bag light and check engine light illuminate. Sometimes, if I keep air conditioner at coolest level the gauges will resume operation.

While driving the check engine light and air bag light illuminated and all of the gauges ceased to work properly. The speedometer would go blank and all lights on the dash board would dim. The manufacturer and the dealer are aware of the problem. This would occur when the vehicle is going in different speeds. The problem begun with the airbag, followed by the odometer, tachometer, and the speedometer dropping to zero. Then the check engine light would come on and "no bus" error message would appear on the odometer. Sometimes the gas, battery, temperature, and oil pressure gauge would fail as well. The problem would last from anywhere up to forty minutes or more. Corrosion was found where the harness plugs into the cluster. The vehicle had been to the dealer four times and still has not been repaired.

The vehicle has had electrical problem since may 2001. The instrument panel wiring cluster has been replaced by the dealer. The vehicle is now having the same problem again. On 7/8/2003, the dealer told the consumer to sell the vehicle or trade it in.