hood release
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Apr 2019
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From: Johns Creek, Georgia
hood release
The passenger side hood lock won't release, the drivers side does. Any ideas on how to get it to release? Also, can I charge the battery from the cigarette lighter with a tender?
Safety Car
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From: Summerville SC
You need a 12v outlet that is hot all the time to charge the battery. Not sure about the lighter outlet near the ashtray. I use the lighter inside the console on my 2012. It works perfectly. 
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From: Etobicoke (Toronto) Ontario
True that they’re electrically hot all the time, but the console port is not a lighter socket. I think it’s called a power or auxiliary socket, and if the designers were smart, they’d have figured out a way to prevent anyone from either plugging a lighter into the console port or not allowing it to make electrical contact there. I’m guessing that the console port and surrounding material wasn’t designed to take the 700° heat from the lighter. I’m not going to try it to find out.
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From: SC
True that they’re electrically hot all the time, but the console port is not a lighter socket. I think it’s called a power or auxiliary socket, and if the designers were smart, they’d have figured out a way to prevent anyone from either plugging a lighter into the console port or not allowing it to make electrical contact there. I’m guessing that the console port and surrounding material wasn’t designed to take the 700° heat from the lighter. I’m not going to try it to find out.
