# Instrument Panel Lights **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** gauges, grand-cherokee, jeep\ **Created:** [February 12, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/instrument-panel-lights/70909 "2012-02-12T08:10:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LES\_PAUL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@LES\_PAUL](https://community.cartalk.com/u/LES_PAUL)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/instrument-panel-lights/70909/1 "2012-02-12T08:10:48Z")
What could cause my Instrument lights to stay on for a while as well as my gauges to malfunction when the temperature is cool.? It just started doing this. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/instrument-panel-lights/70909/2 "2012-02-12T19:16:06Z")
Start looking for a bad ground in the area behind the instruments and you will probably find the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![oblivion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@oblivion](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oblivion)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/instrument-panel-lights/70909/3 "2012-02-12T19:24:02Z")
When you say ‘instrument lights’, do you mean the warning lights, or the nighttime illumination of your speedometer, etc? ---
**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/instrument-panel-lights/70909/4 "2012-02-13T22:05:01Z")
Good point Oblivion. If you are talking about the warning lights in the dash rather than the dash illumination lights then I suspect you are going to need to replace the alternator.