# Intermittent dash

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/intermittent-dash/10613>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** intermittent\
**Created:** [February 13, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/intermittent-dash/10613 "2008-02-13T13:22:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Francizek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/francizek/32/303_2.png) [@Francizek](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Francizek)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/intermittent-dash/10613/1 "2008-02-13T13:22:44Z")

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My daughter has a 2005 Freestyle that has an intermittent connection in the instrument cluster that causes gages and dash lights to go off for a minute or so then back on. I suspect a bad ground, but so far have not been able to find it. Since the dealer wanted a second mortgage on the house plus her next born son to explore the problem, she considered simply installing another instrument cluster from a junkyard. But she was told that this would not work because of the need to re-program the onboard computer to accept the replacement instrument cluster. Have any of you whizzes heard of this?

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**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/intermittent-dash/10613/2 "2008-02-13T14:49:48Z")

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Have you tried removing and re-seating the connectors on the back of the panel?