> wrote in message
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> (forgive me if you read my identical post on rec.auto-makers.dodge)
>
> My '98 Caravan, which up til now has been extremely reliable, now is
> dead, and displaying very odd symptoms. My wife had driven it about 45
> minutes to a friends house, no problems. 3 hours after she got there,
> she went to start the van, and it wouldn't do anything. What was wierd
> was when she took the key out of the ignition, there was a clicking
> noise under the dash, to the left of the steering wheel. This noise
> just continued and wouldn't stop. WIth key in iginition, nothing
> worked - no panel, no lights, nothing. The friends husband messed with
> it a bit, said at one point the dome light came on, but was going on
> and off, and the panel lit up and acted erratically, but each time he
> turned the ignition on, everything went deal.
>
> Does this sound like something as simple as a weak battery, or does it
> sound more like some bizarre electrical problem, or a failed computer
> module of some sort? The battery is just over four years old, and was
> a fairly premium model when I bought it. Haven't had any trouble
> starting it lately.
>

Could be a bad battery and the first thing to do would be to load test it.
if it wont charge replace it.

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler Tech