Chrysler Repair: Electrical gremlins (interior/exterior lights flashing, etc.): 300m, electrical gremlins, dashboard lights


Question
This is a used 1999 I'm with 112,000 I bought it in Apr. My lights and dashboard lights will flash on/off rapidly several times both inside the car and outside with the lights.  Just recently my windows stopped working.  None of the switches work.  I went to start my car and it didn't even turn over.  When I shut it off and tried a few more times it then turned over but have since gotten my windows to work.  I still have lots of flickering of my interior/exterior lights.  Please help?  Where do I start. Could it be a fuse. Are they on different circuits.  Is the relay switch to the ignition have anything to do with it.  Most importantly, is it dangerous.  I have 2 small babies always in my car with me?

Answer
Hi Tracy,
These are separate electical issues and I would like to take them on one at a time, because it gets too confusing to deal with several at once. Lets take the flashing interior lights first:
Here is an answer I gave a couple of days ago to someone with the same sort of symptom-
"Usually this symptom is caused by one of the doors not being latched firmly enough in the door frame. The door that is causing it can be determined by simply pushing outward on the doors while in the closed condition from the inside of the car. That will put the door in its most outward latched position and thus the push button in the door frame may in fact close the switch which turns on the lights. You correct this by moving the striker plate in the door frame inboard enough to reduce this free play in the striker plate/latch adjustment. There are several screws in the plate that you loosen and then move the plate inboard and retighten the screws and retest. If that doesn't work, then you can put a shim on the inner surface of the door where it comes into contact with the pushbutton to more firmly push it in.
Use the "rate the expert" tab to reach me more easily. Let me know if the interior flashing is fixed. Then we can deal with the starter intermittancy, the dash lights, and the exterior lights. Please take your time and describe one problem in detail so I can do my best to help. You may want to have a volt-ohmmeter to be able to check the situation of each system. See if you can borrow one and let me know whether you have access to that.
Roland