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hermetic

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Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 11, 2019, 02:15 PM

Jun 2019

Here's what was discovered. A person needs to be the size of your average 12-year-old in order to get to the wiring under the dash. Evidently, many years ago a 12-year-old got down there and installed a transponder for the toll roads and bridges in Chicago. They must have been 12 because they cut into the wiring for the lights to attach this. Since this transponder hangs down, it somehow got nudged and unclipped, which is now interrupting the circuit somewhere in that mass of wiring. What a nightmare. We soldier on...

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2006 Chrysler Town & Country lights problem [View all] hermetic Jun 2019 OP

I would have to think dweller Jun 2019 #1

Thanks hermetic Jun 2019 #7

Look for the ground wires near the rear lights. House of Roberts Jun 2019 #2

They are hermetic Jun 2019 #8

Check fuse 26 jberryhill Jun 2019 #3

Helpful hermetic Jun 2019 #5

Good luck kacekwl Jun 2019 #9

Ah, that's brilliant jberryhill Jun 2019 #10

Good stuff, that hermetic Jun 2019 #11

Poor ground. Chrysler kacekwl Jun 2019 #4

Evidently hermetic Jun 2019 #6