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Cigarette lighter socket not working

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28 Jul 2014 10:27 #120864 by minibbb
Right..... Turns out the wire at the back had been cut off and taped over! The rear part of the lighter socket itself is also missing as you can see straight through it!! The car was owned by the beachy head chaplain team before me so I'm guessing they removed the socket to wire in their searchlight.
On eBay there are lighter sockets advertised as fitting the jimny for about £4 delivered. Reckon these would fit ok?

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28 Jul 2014 12:31 #120872 by minibbb
God knows how you remove the lighter socket! All I've managed to do so far is nicely scratch the surround!

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28 Jul 2014 18:57 #120883 by helijohn
Replied by helijohn on topic Re:Cigarette lighter socket not working

minibbb wrote: God knows how you remove the lighter socket! All I've managed to do so far is nicely scratch the surround!


Somewhere here there is a detailed teardown of the part of the dash to get at the cig lighter.

What I did recently was fit one of these directly to the wiring and did away with the standard socket.
cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321350784414


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28 Jul 2014 19:30 #120887 by Rhinoman
What year is it? on the later ones the surround just pulls off from the bottom.

Some Suzukis and a bunch of motorcycles.
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28 Jul 2014 20:34 #120894 by minibbb
Thanks guys, its a 2005 but pre VVT so the old dash layout

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28 Jul 2014 20:34 #120896 by Bits4Vits
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I took mine out and fitted a USB charger socket for my iPad (running MemoryMap for 'laning) -



(With thanks to Gary "funkyjimny" for getting the socket from an expedition show)

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