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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / May 2004Cellphone charger
I got a new Civic and I'm having a problem with its power-outlet, or socket (formerly known as a cigarette lighter). Anyway, I need it to recharge my cellphone, but when I try to remove the cellphone charger/adapter from the socket, it doesn't want to come out. At one point I couldn't remove it at all and took it in to the dealer. He said there's different sizes of sockets, and that to remove my cellphone charger from it they'd have to remove the whole panel just to get to it. Well, I decided against it and finally managed to remove it myself. So what now? Does anybody know about these things? How many different socket sizes are there? Do I need a different size other than the one that comes standard? Thanks. > I got a new Civic and I'm having a problem with its power-outlet, or > socket (formerly known as a cigarette lighter). Anyway, I need it to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > How many different socket sizes are there? Do I need a different size > other than the one that comes standard? Thanks. Go to AutoAone & buy an extension--leave the male plugged in all the time and just use the female end when you need a charge. A splitter would serve the same purpose. HTH, sdlomi2 Theres only one size cig lighter plug. If its stuck check to be sure the metal side tabs are not bent. AND put a SMALL amount of lub on the metal taps or in the female plug, patrolium gel or greaes. Electronic stores have a lubiracating contact gel. > I got a new Civic and I'm having a problem with its power-outlet, or > socket (formerly known as a cigarette lighter). Anyway, I need it to [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > How many different socket sizes are there? Do I need a different size > other than the one that comes standard? Thanks. >Theres only one size cig lighter plug. If its stuck check to be sure the >metal side tabs are not bent. AND put a SMALL amount of lub on the metal [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >> How many different socket sizes are there? Do I need a different size >> other than the one that comes standard? Thanks. Update: I tried squeezing the charger's side tabs using pliers so it would fit. I also lubed them. (BTW, I got the cellphone charger from 'Batteries Plus"). Unfortunately the charger "head" got separated from the adapter completely, and got stuck in the socket. I had to go back to the same dealer, and they removed the part that was stuck, but unfortunately they did damage to my dash. So I have to make another trip to them to get the socket AND the dash fixed. I also have to get a new charger, since the old one came apart. So beware people, of adapters that don't smoothly fit the car socket!! |
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