Cigarette Lighter Slot

[HolyEvil]

Hi there, I was just wondering whether I would need to change the car cigarette lighter to use my car charger for my ipod and phone. I just bought a new ipod car charger and it works with cig lighter slots in other cars but when i plug it into my skyline's slot, there's just no power.

Is there a difference in the cigarette lighter slots in japanese cars and local made cars? the cigarette lighter slot is working fine, the cigarette lighter gets red hot when i push it in, so what is the problem?

thank you

[mjones]

Hi there, I was just wondering whether I would need to change the car cigarette lighter to use my car charger for my ipod and phone. I just bought a new ipod car charger and it works with cig lighter slots in other cars but when i plug it into my skyline's slot, there's just no power.

Is there a difference in the cigarette lighter slots in japanese cars and local made cars? the cigarette lighter slot is working fine, the cigarette lighter gets red hot when i push it in, so what is the problem?

thank you

my cig lighter blew the sh*t out of my phone charger,it worked fine but did't like anything but the cig lighter,easy fix i just brought a $12 job from auto pro in there now it works fine.

[HolyEvil]

my cig lighter blew the sh*t out of my phone charger,it worked fine but did't like anything but the cig lighter,easy fix i just brought a $12 job from auto pro in there now it works fine.

Hi there, is it easy to replace the cig light slot? i'm not too good with tools. can you explain to me how you changed the cig lighter slot?

cheers

[RANDY]

Well.. mine never worked either. I pulled it out and then pushed the metal clip-bit-thing of the socket in further... so that it could touch and hold the actual cigarette lighter in place.

Works now! Might want to try this first? Pull the ashtray out, unscrew the screw behind that. Grab the shifter surround from the rear part, then lift until the whole thing unclips at the back. Slide backwards and up, and the front should come out.

If you spin the piece around, you can see the back of the ciggy lighter socket (without having to take off the shifter knob).

From there, find the side of the socket that has a bit of metal cut out, and push it in a bit more. Test with ciggy lighter.

If the socket just doesn't have power to it (by testing with multimeter off the actual wiring), then this is useless to you. Check fuses for that issue.

[mjones]

Hi there, is it easy to replace the cig light slot? i'm not too good with tools. can you explain to me how you changed the cig lighter slot?

cheers

i simply pulled the whole cig lighter out,theres 3 wires on the back of it,2 for power and 1 earth,from memory the earth was black with orange stripe(just check with a multimeter)one of the power wires is for the light around the cig lighter(the one with a plug on it)put this wont be needed as the aftermaket cig lighter wont fit inside the light,but the aftermaket lighter fits straight in the hole in ur dash,

so all u need is a new cig lighter

a pair of crippers(if u get the cig lighter from a auto electrican just ask them for a connector that fits on the

bottom of ur new lighter)if not there avalible everywhere)

ands about 15mins then ur done,haha its one of the only things im game to touch in my car without fear of sdtuffing it up,so it must be pretty easy

[HolyEvil]

Well.. mine never worked either. I pulled it out and then pushed the metal clip-bit-thing of the socket in further... so that it could touch and hold the actual cigarette lighter in place.

Works now! Might want to try this first? Pull the ashtray out, unscrew the screw behind that. Grab the shifter surround from the rear part, then lift until the whole thing unclips at the back. Slide backwards and up, and the front should come out.

If you spin the piece around, you can see the back of the ciggy lighter socket (without having to take off the shifter knob).

From there, find the side of the socket that has a bit of metal cut out, and push it in a bit more. Test with ciggy lighter.

If the socket just doesn't have power to it (by testing with multimeter off the actual wiring), then this is useless to you. Check fuses for that issue.

hi there i unscrewed the screw, but am unable to pull the whole piece of plastic out as it's 1 large piece extending to the little compartment beside the handbrake. I'm afraid of pulling hard and snapping something cuz mine is an auto and there's the power/at/snow switch in front of the ashtray.

but I tried pushing in the silver bit in the cig slot so that it 'hold' the charger more, I also bent the copper looking piece (at the very end of the hole) inwards as well but stillcan't get a charge..

what's a multimeter? and anywhere i can go to get it fixed or get someone to put in a new cig lighter slot for me? I don't mind paying like 20 bucks or so..

cheers

[HolyEvil]

i simply pulled the whole cig lighter out,theres 3 wires on the back of it,2 for power and 1 earth,from memory the earth was black with orange stripe(just check with a multimeter)one of the power wires is for the light around the cig lighter(the one with a plug on it)put this wont be needed as the aftermaket cig lighter wont fit inside the light,but the aftermaket lighter fits straight in the hole in ur dash,

so all u need is a new cig lighter

a pair of crippers(if u get the cig lighter from a auto electrican just ask them for a connector that fits on the

bottom of ur new lighter)if not there avalible everywhere)

ands about 15mins then ur done,haha its one of the only things im game to touch in my car without fear of sdtuffing it up,so it must be pretty easy

I'll see if there are any pliers that i can borrow off my work tomorrow..

cheers mate.

[mjones]

I'll see if there are any pliers that i can borrow off my work tomorrow..

cheers mate.

any auto elec will do it for you

[RANDY]

Oh.. my apologies... I should have mentioned that this is the method for manual shifter surrounds. No idea with an auto.

But I second the auto sparky. If you don't know how to use a multimeter, it's probably best that they check the wiring for you, and then decide on the course of action depending on what is actually wrong with it.

[HolyEvil]

Oh.. my apologies... I should have mentioned that this is the method for manual shifter surrounds. No idea with an auto.

But I second the auto sparky. If you don't know how to use a multimeter, it's probably best that they check the wiring for you, and then decide on the course of action depending on what is actually wrong with it.

thanks mate.. yeah i'll go to a auto electrician (ayone have good recommendations in sydney? live in hurstville, work in westmead)

cheers

[HolyEvil]

went to the auto elec.. told him the problem, he tried it and was kinda puzzled by why it's like that.. then he went hmmm.. went off..came back with a sharp screw driver sorta thing.. starts picking at the insides of the cig lighter. plugs in the charger, the led lights up.. turns to me and say.. yeah a dirty connection..

woohoo.. don't need to change..

[RANDY]

lol! You know there's about 5 dudes sitting infront of their pc's right now going "Man! I thought that was too obvious to mention!" ;op

I was kinda getting at the connection thing though... assuming the contacts were clean, I thought they just weren't touching. Turns out they weren't touching because they had old cigarette all over them! lol

Glad to hear you got it sorted though!

[HolyEvil]

haha yeah ..i think some would be.. but it's great that i found this board.. heaps of helpful pple around.. especially for guys like me who don't know much about cars..

thanks for all your help mate!

cheers