cig lighter electrical short

[initial-T]

my mom's gen4 started having a problem lately.

the cig lighter/clock fuse blew out and i thought 'simple replacement', but it turns out when i plug something into the cig lighter it burns out again instantly.

any ideas on this problem?

[zoni]

take the cigarette lighter out, put a new one in.
you MAY lose the light that goes with it with a replacement, but thats OK.
just get a universal replacement from the autoparts store.

[initial-T]

eh? now you sorta lost me on that. like if i plug a phone charger into it, the fuse dies. are you saying disconnect the assembly from the back and put a new one in?

[Eye8Pussies]

^ yup, that's exactly what he's saying....there may be something wrong with assembly- maybe the negative and positive are crossing or something once you push something in

or you can take it apart and take a look at it...



a couple of years ago, my socket stopped working when I had a heated hooked up to it, so I took it apart and tested the continuity of all the metal pieces, and lo-and-behold, I found a ring that somehow got ionized by drawing too much power through it and it had lost continuity, so I took it out, rigged it so that everything worked without the metal washer and now it's still good to this day.....

I still don't know how that happened....