Dashlights going in and out! help!

SHaFT7 · 01-25-2001, 01:05 PM

..when its cold outside, and i turn on my parking lights / headlights / foglamps, the inside dash lights + air conditioner lights won't come on unless i bang real hard on the dash right above the gauges

i dismantled my dash to check it out:

there was a kind of jumper wire between 2 of the 6 terminals on the headlamp switch....but i don't remember which 2 they were. i played w/ the thing trying to get it to work for about an hour, and then had to put it back together to get to school

now i don't get anything at all in the instrument cluster or the a/c controls...

before i could pound on the instrument cluster from the top and it would usually come on after some hitting, but now, not even a flicker!

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i noticed that a couple of the connections on the 6 plug headlight connection look like they've been warped a little from the heat that the switch generates

any ideas?????

i'm inclined to think that its NOT the switch, cuz before when i'd bang on the top of the gauges, they would usually come on

a;ljsdg;lg

*stuck*

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SHaFTed

01-25-2001, 01:05 PM	#1
SHaFT7 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Lawrence, KS, USA Posts: 169	Dashlights going in and out! help! ..when its cold outside, and i turn on my parking lights / headlights / foglamps, the inside dash lights + air conditioner lights won't come on unless i bang real hard on the dash right above the gauges i dismantled my dash to check it out: there was a kind of jumper wire between 2 of the 6 terminals on the headlamp switch....but i don't remember which 2 they were. i played w/ the thing trying to get it to work for about an hour, and then had to put it back together to get to school now i don't get anything at all in the instrument cluster or the a/c controls... before i could pound on the instrument cluster from the top and it would usually come on after some hitting, but now, not even a flicker! alsjg;laskjg;laskjg;lasjg i noticed that a couple of the connections on the 6 plug headlight connection look like they've been warped a little from the heat that the switch generates any ideas????? i'm inclined to think that its NOT the switch, cuz before when i'd bang on the top of the gauges, they would usually come on a;ljsdg;lg stuck ------------------ SHaFTed