All Gauges keep going dead, then airbag light comes on

[mgt]

mine did the same thing. took it to a speedo shop and they check all connections , made a couple solder a coupler connections and all is good now. its the solder connections on the circuit board. check local speedo shops.

[Dragonslayer]

Back again. On my '93, I went and dissected the gauge connector (on the harness end)
wire-by-wire. While I had it apart, I cleaned each connector using electrical contact
cleaner and a set on tiny self-made cotton swabs (I was amazed who much black soot
came out of each connector). I then gently squeezed each connector at the waist with
a pair of needle-nosed pliers so that they would grip each pin more strongly and put
everything back into the plastic connector block. I applied some dielectric grease on
each pin and put it back together. It took a bit more force to get the connector to slide
and snap onto the socket on the gauge pack - which I took as a good sign as each connector now grips it's respective pin more firmly.

I fired the car up and took it for a spin.

No change. The tach and speedo needles continue to dance and bounce and wave as
though they are both flippin' me the finger.

An electrical engineer balked when I told him that I had applied dielectric grease on
each pin. He never uses the stuff. Oh great ...NOW he tells me.

I'm open to any other ideas.

My '98 is OK. All I did was to press on the gauge pack further into the dash. I had
used the tips of all of my fingers and needed so much force that I thought I was going
to break the lens, or smash the gauges through the firewall. All is well since.

[QCXJ8879]

Having the sam problem with my 99 just started last night. We were wheeling all weekend and everything worked fine. I know we were on some washboard roads and maybe rattled something loose. I tried to pull and clean the connectors with no luck! Anyone making any progress on this problem?

[dishner]

My '98 is OK. All I did was to press on the gauge pack further into the dash. I had
used the tips of all of my fingers and needed so much force that I thought I was going
to break the lens, or smash the gauges through the firewall. All is well since.

I know it doesn't help much but this worked for me too. I can't believe the electrical problems these things have. In my 98, the dome light stays on all the time, until I turn on the rear defroster, then it goes off. Then the defroster won't auto-shutoff, until I turn on the domelight. Vicious cycle!

[QCXJ8879]

I pulled apart my dash and cleaned every plug I could find and used dielectric grease and my heap is back to normal. Well atleast for now. lol