ok i'm no electrician, especially when it comes to vehicles, so does anyone have any easy starting points i could look at to try and figure out why my cigarette lighter isn't working?  i did check the fuse and the back of the lighter to make sure it was plugged in and it is so now what?    could it be the lighter itself not making good contact?  i guess i could take a voltmeter and test the power wires running into it eh and run back from there?  guess i just answered my question too   oi...

mike

I would test the wire at the back of the lighter socket with a voltmeter. If it has power then either the lighter or socket itself is bad. Both the socket and the lighter itself have been generic parts in every vehicle that I've ever messed with in the past. I would assume these are too. In my zuki the socket itself is rusty so it is hard to get anything to make contact in it.

The lighter socket is only hot when the key is on,
have you tried the lighter only when turned off

lol, yeah i tried it on, off, with the lights on, with them off...  you name it

mike

did you test for power.. could be just the little lighter thingey thats burnt out,, try plugging something in there light a phone charger. or some 12v acc for a cig lighter.. or a test light

you could always quit smoking
j/k

in my sammy i used a heavier wire on both the hot and the neutral so you could run hi power stuff off of it(spotlights, inverters)
and it works all the time
jason

you could always quit smoking
j/k

in my sammy i used a heavier wire on both the hot and the neutral so you could run hi power stuff off of it(spotlights, inverters)
and it works all the time
jason

Yup. just wired mine directly

you could always quit smoking
j/k

in my sammy i used a heavier wire on both the hot and the neutral so you could run hi power stuff off of it(spotlights, inverters)
and it works all the time
jason

lol.  that's mainly what i want it for,  spotlight,  phone charger etc etc...  that's an idea though, rewire it. 

mike

maybe just a blown fuse?

ok, i'm just an idiot   i guess the lighter part just doesn't stay pushed in until it's hot but if i hold it in it'll 'fire' up so to speak....  someone make this a sticky as "ddevil is an idiot" please 

mike

But isn't it nice when the solution is easy 

You won't soon forget this learning expierience 

lol, yeah it is rather nice. 

mike