2000 escalade thin plume of smoke by steering wheel, smell of burning wire, car stalled and now rpm gauge doesn't work.

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If its in the engine compartment there is an antifreeze leak..If it inside the car like like near to the windshield, you have a bad heater core. Good Luck contact me if you need more help.

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sound like the overheating of the engine did some internal damage. ethier an intake or head gasket or maybe even a warped or cracked head. worse case senero would be a cracked block. check the oil see if it looks milky like a grey sludge. most likely it is a head gasket. have a leak down test preformed to confirm. the labor for the head gaskets is 9 hours for 1 or 11.5 for 2. I would replace both and have the mechanic check the heads and block for cracks while he has it apart.

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If half are working, then most likely the other half are simply blown bulbs that just need replaced. A blown fuse would normally cause ALL the lights in that section to go off, not just half.

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Diagnosing this will be subject to a process of elimination. It could be the radio, blower motor or any other accessory particularly ones with moving parts; Try switching those off and try to note when this problem occurs and what is on/whatyou are doing. Something is getting hot causing the smell so it will be a situation where the accessory will have to run a while before doing it. It is a possibility that there is an electical curcuit overheating, but less likely. Lets rule out accessories first and give us an update. GL

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Check the fuses to the cluster chances are that when you got the jump the power and neg cables could of got mixed up and blown out the fuse.GoodLuck keep me posted