Kritter

fixed! The switch wasn’t getting any power at all which explains it all! Thank you all for the help.

I was going down a dirt road and noticed my headlights started to flicker, a couple more feet and my headlights, tail lights and gauge cluster lights all stopped working simultaneously. What could cause this? I have a 1990 xj

EvanM

Grounds maybe.
loose fuses, corroded fuses, fuses

Kritter

I've checked all my fuses and there all fine, unfortunately I think I have to chase a bad wire or ground. I’m just confused as to why my cluster lights went out along with the headlights/taillights but my blinkers still work front and back.

EvanM

What does volt meter gauge on the dash read. Can you tap fuse box with your foot while driving. Or maybe wiggle steering column and watch for flickering lights

cruiser54

What do all those components have in common?

Headlight switch and it's connector.............

Kritter

dash reads about 13v, I’ll try tapping the fuse box sometime soon hopefully that gives me something

BruceB

I think this is solid advice. Many posts on here referring to this as a problem area as full amps are running through the switch causing failure.

cruiser54

Correct. The only "fuse" for the headlamps is the circuit breaker which is part of the headlight switch. tail and instrument cluster lights run through the same switch.

cruiser54

Correct. The only "fuse" for the headlamps is the circuit breaker which is part of the headlight switch. tail and instrument cluster lights run through the same switch.

UKXJ

That was a common problem with pre-war Citroens - & they carried on using, essentially, the same switch until the early 80's at least.

Just as some people never learn - so some things never change.