2005 Town & Country Dash Illumination

We just recently purchased a 2005 T&C and some of the dash lights do
not illuminate at night when the head lights are turned on. They are as
follows:

Should these be illuminated? We've spoken to the autodealer where we
purchased the car and they don't seem to know.

Any comments apprecitated.

 

NOticed the same thing on the 2003 we recently purchased. On our 99
everything lights up. The cheapened things up and did not include them on
the later models (03 on IIRC).
Larry

 

That is a tricky question!

I had a customer come in a week ago with the same question,when the
tech pulled the
mirror switch to look and see if it even had a place to put a bulb, he
found it did
indeed have a hole to put a bulb in but no bulb and no connector for a
bulb,
I found out some have those things illuminated and some don't.
we ordered a new switch just for kicks to see what would happen and
it came with lights in it.

so who knows??!?!?!?


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Partial list of things Chrysler has pulled from its vans to save money since
2000 or so.

1. Front wiper defroster in glass.
2. Lighted function on some switches.
3. Cheaper carpet in Limited models.
4. Cheaper and less leather in Limited models.
5. Three bulb, seperate funtion segments in rear tail lights.
6. Two lights in rear interior hatch (only one now).
7. Cheaper less competent standard tires. (Low level Bridgestones replaced
decent Michlins).
8. Light on interior of hood over motor area.
9. Switch in motor area as part of alarm system.

Any others you can think of.

Richard.

 

Continentals with about 20K mileage rating

7/70 as a standard is now an option(again)

I have also heard they are about to stop use of the 4.0




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The headlight switch definitely lights up. I don't recall if the mirror switch
does, but I am leaning towards no. The climate control arrow switches do not
light up.

 

This is a loss.

This, too, is a loss.

Also a loss.

Not really a loss; the separate adjacent red brake and red turn lamps
"duel" with each other and make it difficult to discern the message
they're sending. It'd be better if they had separate red brake and *amber*
turn lamps (as the Chrysler minivans and all vehicles do outside North
America), but if the rear signals have to be all red, it's better for a
couple of reasons to have a combination brake/turn lamp.

This and all other points on your list are known as "decontenting" -- that
is, cost-reducing the vehicle as its design ages and sales slow, by
removing standard equipment. The Japanese are whizzes at it;
DaimlerChrysler is obviously learning.

This might seem a loss, but...really, how big of a loss is it? There's not
much of anything underhood that a light would help you with. If you're
checking fluids, you're probably at a massively-overlit gas station. If
you're jumping the battery, a light wouldn't light up anyhow. It's not
like there's a carburetor or breaker points to fiddle with.

Another loss.

 

I just purchased a 2006 Touring T&C after Thanksgiving and noticed the exact
same thing. That seem's to be the only negative I have to say so far- we're
very impressed with the van. The headlight switch doesn't even look like it
could light up (looks like the light symbols are just screened on the
plastic), but the mirror adjust does look like it should light up.

Scott