Hello All,

KP 2, fuse 1 blows which I've tracked down to the cigarette lighter. Probably due to sonny boy's incessant use as a power source for the GPS.

Anyway, with the cigarette lighter inserted into the socket (but not fully to energize the lighter), there must be a dead short as fuse 1 blows immediately. If I leave the cigarette lighter out of the socket altogether, the radio (also on fuse 1) works fine and the circuit stays live.

I pulled the center console back to have a look see and figured I'd remove the cigarette lighter socket to check it out (or replace it). Unfortunately, removing that little devil is not simple and I wonder if any of you have traveled this road before.

Or alternately, do any of you have any input to get that socket working?

Thanks,

Marty Wolfson

Edit: BTW, I tried a different lighter element from the other 93. Blew fuse 1 just like the other lighter element - so it's not the element.

Hi Marty,

The socket is really simple unless 93 brought you a change I don't know about. Has a nut on the back of its square insert - you can see it easily by popping out a blank or the SRS jack next to it. There's a fuzzy pic of the back in my heater core writeup. Can you shine a good light inside the hole and find the penny some toddler put it there? Ha, if things were only that easy.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good spit it out. - Unknown

Ummm...
If the lighter's shorted, throw it out.