Jonny Park

Hi party people
My *** lighter has stopped working.I checked all the fuses in the driver side foot well & they are all ok.Any ideas please?
Car is 97 wrx which incidentally passed its mot today with no advisories for the 7th year in a row that I have owned it.Thanks alot

ossett2k2

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The cig lighter has an inline fuse wire on the back of the plug,prone to blow when using electric tyre pumps.

Jonny Park

Will have a look tomorrow,thank you very much 😊

Jonny Park

No fuse on the back of mine,any other ideas?

JDM_Stig

iTrader: (3)

have you dropped a multimeter on the wiring at the rear of the socket, check for 12v, rules out a faulty socket, if you are 100% sure the fuses are ok.

ossett2k2

iTrader: (9)

Should have a black wire on the back,this is the inline fuse wire,check continuity.

johned

Have you used anything else in the socket.

Jonny Park

I have a Temporary' fog light that I made up for mot purposes that plugs in the cig lighter.
the fuse had blown on this so I did the old tin foil round the fuse job.Worked for a while & now nothing works in the cig lighter.???
Really appreciate the replies fellas,thanks.

johned

You have probably with using the fog light in the socket blown the fuseable link at the back of the socket this blows when the socket gets overloaded and usually happens when using a compressor for blowing up the tyres so you will have to take the socket out and check the back of it.

johned

Any joy.

Jonny Park

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Hi guys.Not had chance to have a proper look but have taken the whole centre piece out including the stereo & I can't see any fuses at all.Followed the black wire from the lighter & it just goes into a load of other wires.

ossett2k2

iTrader: (9)

This pic should help:

Jonny Park

So is the fuse actually in the back of the lighter itself?

ossett2k2

iTrader: (9)

Yes ^^^

Jonny Park

Oh right,ok! sometimes I can be such a dumbass.
Thanks very much guys I really appreciate your time & help.

johned

Alas the fusible link.

ossett2k2

iTrader: (9)

Life

johned

sometimes you cannot see the wood for the trees.