Cluster wont light when and wont start 1998 town and country

This problem must be tested using a special tool at the Chrysler dealer, there are no home repairs that you can do with the tools and the repair books from the dealer or a well equipped shop.

The problem is your instrument cluster. Your type of vehicle is notorious for the instrument cluster failing. It will need replaced, or rebuilt.

The following lights all came on at the same time:
Brake light, ABS, BAS, ESP, and TCS, What does this mean.

cluster could be fried

can't locate idle control sensor on 1998 Chrysler Town& Country van

you have lost power/check fuseable links,main fuses/and of corse battrey cabels at the battrey

I've had the same problem. From what I've been able to find, there is bad connection on a computer chip behind the dashboard - as crazy as this sounds, the quick fix is to hit the dash on to the left of the steering wheel pretty hard. You may notice that when you have tis problem, the display lights below the speedo and tach are out - after you've whacked the dash and the lights come on, you know that you have "fixed" the problem.

Seems like a bad earth on dash cluster.

This may or may not help. Hopefully it will. We recently purchased this 1998 chrysler town & country. Everything was working fine, started fine, etc. we took it to get emissions done.....passed emissions.. .made it home. i turned the car off to run inside for a minute. came back out car started.. ran for 3 seconds than died out. tried again... ran for 3 seconds than died out... after that it no longer would do anything. all the lights worked except in the ignition module. the top dashboard lights worked though. I then noticed that the "alarm set" light stayed lit. after replacing fuses and running an OBD test and found no trouble codes or issues with fuses it dawned on me it may be the alarm. after searching the internet for hours i found a forum that suggested unplugging the battery for about 5 minutes....rehook it and then try starting it again. well i tried doing that the first time using the REMOTE to unlock the doors and nothing happened. i locked the doors and repeated the same battery unhook-rehook process except without using the remote... (i noticed a lot of forums saying that the remotes can be deffective in that they somehow trigger the alarm if the transmitter is not working properly)... so after unhooking and rehooking the battery and using only the key to unlock it started right up! so i've decided to not use the remote at all and have had no other problems. let me know if this helps

hi i had the problem it was the circut board solder,in the dash cluster