I'll fix you...

Okay, so my Jeep is old. When we got it, I looked down at the console and there's a display that alerts the driver when something is amiss with the Jeep.

I thought to myself, "That's cool!!" Merril noticed it and said, "Ross's Mom's Jeep had one of those. It was always flashing something about the back lights."

Mostly, it doesn't do anything but show me the time and date. It's told me that I'm low on oil and washer fluid and have a door ajar.

Three weeks ago, the dreaded error message popped up, "Rear Lamp Failure." It seemed pretty stern for a light bulb being burned out. So I checked and noticed a brake light out. Fixed the light and turned on the Jeep, same error. I ignored it for a while to see if it would correct itself. No dice. I checked the web and that led me in the direction of license plate lights. Sure enough, one was out. I replaced it, jumped in the Jeep, cranked it over and REAR LAMP FAILURE. Urg. I went back to my first plan of ignoring it to see if it would go away. I then I thought about back up lights. Therein lies my problem. Something's wonky with the back up lights. They come on half the time. Do I really care? No. Do I want the error light to go away, YES! It blinks the entire time the jeep is on. This thing has become my nemesis.

Fast forward to today. Eyes narrowed and hands on hips, I attacked again. I read more about this common Jeep problem and one suggestion was to replace the neutral safety switch, which could be pricey and out of my skill set, or bypass the lamp outage module, cheap! So I pulled it out, yanked the appropriate resistor off the module board and reinstalled it. Ta da!!

Now if only I could make the Jeep have a smiley face on it.