Cigarette Lighter help
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Burning Brakes
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From: Dumas Arkansas
Cigarette Lighter help
There's a short within my cigarette lighter but don't know where and why. I just bought a brand new cigarette lighter adapter or element that is used to heat up the lighter but when I push the lighter in it immediately blow's a fuse. I found a paper clip behind the element and some quarters that are down by the cup holders. That didn't seem to help either and I got all the change out but two quarters. What's causing this to short out so fast? '92 automatic.
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Did you check down inside the lighter socket? There may be some tiny particle that's hard to see laying in there. I know it sounds unlikely but it happened to me once.
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If it's rusty and/or corroded, the resulting bad connection could be causing an overload. If disassembling and cleaning it doesn't help, just replace it.
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Burning Brakes
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I tried to take the console out but couldn't figure it out. I got the one screw our from the front cup holder and another that clicks the console dole but it didn't want to come out. I just got this car about a month ago and the woman I bought the vette from drank a lot of wine it. Looks like some red liquid stuff below the cup holders where the loose change is stuck together. I got it up to 142mph today. I don't really watch Nascar but it makes you appreciate those guys.
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If i remember right, there were two at the rear of the console under the console door, one in the cup holder, and then you have to slide the console back a bit to unhook it from the radio plate. then you can unscrew and unhook the lighter.
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Originally Posted by slicked25
I tried to take the console out but couldn't figure it out. I got the one screw our from the front cup holder and another that clicks the console dole but it didn't want to come out. I just got this car about a month ago and the woman I bought the vette from drank a lot of wine it. Looks like some red liquid stuff below the cup holders where the loose change is stuck together. I got it up to 142mph today. I don't really watch Nascar but it makes you appreciate those guys.
That is rich. I used to have an associate broker during my real estate career. He was a smooth Italian who liked silk shirts and Lincoln Mark IVs. Any time that he saw a low slung black luxury car oozing down the street he would say: "Now THAT'S a wine drinkin car!"
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I'm sure that liquid stuff under the cup holders mixed with metal ain't good so I'll take it to a master tomorrow. I've tried and tried and just can't figure it out. The woman that I bought the 92 from has a 99 or C5 that she's now wanting her C4 back with a laugh and she claims the C4 is faster than her 99 C5. I have driven her 99 once and really got on it on a back road straight away. Although the C4 I have is very fast to me I just don't believe it's faster than her's.
She also want's a newer one and want's me to sell her 99 in a couple of months. I just hopes she waits to get home to pop one.
She also want's a newer one and want's me to sell her 99 in a couple of months. I just hopes she waits to get home to pop one.
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Originally Posted by slicked25
I tried to take the console out but couldn't figure it out. I got the one screw our from the front cup holder and another that clicks the console dole but it didn't want to come out. I just got this car about a month ago and the woman I bought the vette from drank a lot of wine it. Looks like some red liquid stuff below the cup holders where the loose change is stuck together. I got it up to 142mph today. I don't really watch Nascar but it makes you appreciate those guys.
Shoot me an email and I send you a couple of jpegs that should help you out.
Mike
