2001 Dodge Caravan Electrical system Problems

“Was coming home when I smelt a burning smell. I pulled over to see what it was and could not find anything wrong, but still smelt the smell. I turned back on the car to pull over more in the light to see what was going on (it was dark). When I turned back on the car nothing on the dashboard worked, no blinkers, no temp gauge, no gas gauge, no RPM, no speedometer. …”

“Pulled vehicle out of garage and shortly after fire started to come up out of the dash. Complete loss. Called fire department to try to put the fire out but it spread in a matter of minutes.. This was not my car but my mother in laws.”

“Headlights and dashboard dies, intermittent. The problem show when I used the turn signal, the dashboard dies entirely and the headlights goes off, it happens every 2 or 3 days, after a few minutes they worked again. It happens to me more than 10 times. I solder the terminals at the electrical box that according to the electrical diagram feed the turn signal, dashboard and headlights in the engine compartment 2 years ago, since then the problem has not occurred any more.”

“Since late spring 2008, the headlights on my 2001 Dodge Caravan have intermittently flickered and gone out, then come back on. This continued off and on until I had the vehicle repaired at a vehicle electrical system expert (enormis, erie pa) in july of 2009. They replaced the fuse box for the vehicle at a cost of approx $430. They indicated that they have had to do this with approx. Six other vehicles recently. This was an extremely dangerous situation, having your headlights go out at night on an interstate highway while traveling 60 MPH, especially while it is raining. …”

“Dt: contact complained about the recall of earlier models of the same car where the clock spring in the steering column was bad. The steering was not affected .this caused the horn and cruise control to malfunction. The air bag light came on intermittently. Contact called Dodge and told them.he had this problem for the past week.”