How To Repair Chrysler Dodge Minivan Dead Instrument Cluster Grand Caravan

This video is a how to video on repairing a dead cluster or instrument cluster on a dodge grand caravan. This one is out of 2000 year model. Applies to both Dodge and Chrysler. May not be clear in the video but it was a successful repair lol.
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[@dricklorenz9340]

Thanks for the video. It corroborated the 0.7amps I was seeing on the bench as well so this was super helpful to me.

[@mike7958]

Great video Matt. Glad to see I'm not the only one who receives these things with unwelcome guests inside. Sometimes I receive some so gross that I don't even want to work on them.......NOT REPAIRABLE lol. And FYI, I do typically remove all incandescent backlight bulbs prior to repair. Not because I need to, but to preserve that quality, high hour OEM filament, from all the jostling about it may incur from my repair.

[@FixedUntilBroken]

The worst are the ones with live ones.

[@mike7958]

@@FixedUntilBroken They are all bad. They give me the heebie-jeebies.

[@user-ic6nz1ec5h]

Is it OK if the solder from other pins touch each other?

[@henryssurfshowcase]

Thank you for the help, my 1999 Dodge Caravan instrument goes out, and I think this is exactly what it is..

[@FixedUntilBroken]

We all can't know everything all the time! I did forget to edit out the fume extractor sound at about 3:40 so warning on that.

[@andreiciora2765]

I like how you arange the new lab . Very informativ video .

[@FixedUntilBroken]

Yeah I am really happy with how it's coming out in here.

[@NoName-yr1jv]

Nice job 👍

[@FixedUntilBroken]

Thanks!

[@TerryLawrence001]

Random repairs are fun!

[@brentnearhood8874]

Thanks!

[@unit0624]

Is there a way to -- after market an entire cluster? Or DIY a dash? It gets to 131° where I'm at so mines literally melted now 🥵🙏🏼

[@jameshastey3058]

The DIP IC's you are asking about have writing on them - that writing is usually printed at the IC manufacturer level and will be the same no matter who subsequently buys the part. Do the body markings on the DIP's in question match between the Chrysler and GM parts?

[@katherinekritzer5577]

Dang i wish i knew how to do that/knew what to look for because i really want to fix my dash thats doing the same thing not working when pluged kn

[@John-Adams-Can]

What is the power on your soldering iron?

[@TFD1982]

Do you still need a circuit board?

[@franksandlin8974]

It probably came from a wrecking yard. That is how alot of yards, mark their parts. They try to mark every part so, parts can't be swapped.

[@tinytim9453]

Nice! I've got one that would go dead and then It would work again. Can't seem to find any broken solder.

[@dricklorenz9340]

As a first course of action you should still reflow all the pins on that main harness connector as it seems that vibration transmitted at the point of connection to the vehicle's wiring may still have compromised those solder joints over time. My cluster only had an obvious crack on the ground pin but I still reflowed all 13 pins.

[@tinytim9453]

@@dricklorenz9340 I agree with you. I did find that the ground pin was cracked/broken after wiggling/ pushing on the main pins. First time I ever soldered anything, and I haven't had any problems since.

[@NintendoAmigo]

I bought a 98chevy s10 the cluster only has battery and oil needles working . I opened it and it uses aircore motors I don’t want to buy the motors because they are to expensive do you have a video on how to fix the motors or any suggestion??

[@FixedUntilBroken]

S10 clusters tend to sell for $20-40 at the junkyards so it's cheapest to just get a whole cluster and take the motors you need out.

[@katherinekritzer5577]

Can i send in my dash cluster for repair?

[@ReyHarvey-ss4xg]

Can I send my cluster to you for repair? 1996 Grand Caravan

[@TerryLawrence001]

I believe that they change the number to prevent you from being sure that they may have used someone else's design or it they don't want you to know that the design is just the chip manufacturers App Note

[@FixedUntilBroken]

App notes for sure haha. GM does it to seeming 50% of the chips they use if not 75%.

[@trackrunner11]

The roaches shorted out the circuit board.

[@FixedUntilBroken]

That they do. It's gross