Chrysler Repair: 1996 Sebring, fuse box, kick panel

Question
All of a sudden I don't have any RPM display and my odometer is blank. Are they related and what is common to them. The Tach issue seemed intermittent yesterday today when I started the car I had no Tach or odometer the speedometer portion is accurate. Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer
Hi Michael,
I don't have the wiring diagrams for the '96 Sebring so I can't tell for certain about how independent these three systems are from eachother (tach, speedo, odo). But I believe that the odo is routed thru the body computer (so as to have a memory for the odo that can't be tampered with) and that the tach and speedo also may be routed there and put on the data bus and then sent to the dash. I would check one thing to begin with, if you have the convertible body. Water sometimes leaks in around the windshield/door opening and drops down on the body computer which is located to right of the passengers shin, above the kick panel on the inside of the cowl (under the dash as it were but to the right of the passenger's legs). There are two or three plugs on the top of the computer that when/if they get wet may short out between the pins of the plugs. If you locate it, try to remove it from the panel, pull the plugs and inspect for water/crud/corrosion. Spray the pins and sockets with electronic contact cleaner to evaporate water and remove crud. Then see if that has solved the problems. If not, then I would remove the bezel around the intrument cluster and pull out the cluster and check its plugs on the back side. I'm sort of drawing from my knowledge of the LeBaron convertibles that preceeded the Sebring model.
I do have the diagrams for the '96 Cirrus/Stratus and it indeed says that all the data for the three does go thru the body computer and via the data bus to the cluster. There are several fuses mentionned, one in the power distribution center and two in the junction box (fuse box) in the cabin (respectively a 10 amp in cavity 9 of the PDC, a 20 amp in the fuse box 7, and a 10 amp in fuse box 11) but those are probably not the numbers for the Sebring. Also you could check the ground wire of the cluster at the left side cowl.
But I would suspect the plugs/sockets of the body computer first. I do also have a manual on the data bus '94, but to make much use of it you need a diagnostic readout box. The body computer also usually has the dinger for various warnings so you might trace it by listening to that bell.
I hope this helps.