* Please Help: Cigarette Lighter *, Cig Lighter Not Working Options

[phob0z]

Alright. My Cig lighter has always worked, whether it was to heat the actual Cig lighter piece, or to charge a phone, plug in and power a GPS, etc. Last week I bought a little heater that was designed for cars, made by Peak. Had the heater plugged in, and it worked for about 5 minutes or so, and then off. Ever since then, the Cig lighter hasn't worked at all, no power.

Now, I checked the fuse that powers both Radio/Cig lighter.. the radio still works with fuse in, with the fuse out radio doesn't work. So with that I'm assuming it can't be the fuse because while the fuse is in it's still powering the radio.

Any ideas what my next step is to get my Cig lighter working again? Need to use my GPS..

Also, I pulled out the Cig lighter and all the wires are still in place and in tact.

[pyeatts]

There’s a hard soldered limiter on the back of the cigarette lighter socket. When it overloads it blows and has to be replaced. You’ll see it soldered to the power line on the back of the socket when you pull it out. You can solder in a heaver limiter if you want to run higher amp accessories, but I chose to install a high load accessories socket just for accessories. Now there are much better looking ones available at auto parts stores. I put this in years ago. Takes about twenty minutes to wire up.