I seem to have blown an internal fuse in this item (in the dash to the right of the radio).
Does anyone know how to access the back of it so I can remove & fix it?
(I THINK I have eliminated a blown fuse in a fusebox as the cause of the lack of volts).
This may help
One fuse may be on a fuse-board under the bonnet and the other on a fuse-board internal to the car, probably under the vertical front carpet in the driver or passenger footwell or behind the glovebox.
Thanks for the research, but I’ve been there, done that and got the T shirt (and watched all the “Fix the cigar lighter” videos on YouTube (All of which just tell you how to fund and replace a fuse).
My car has 3 fuseboxes (unless maybe there us/are more)…
One under the bonnet. There are about 15 items shown on the picture inside the lid, but only about 3 big items (80A, 120A) in the fusebox and none of these even vaguely resemble Cigar or Accessories.
There is a small fusebox on the end of the dash on the drivers side (imagine the dash is a four foot length of 4x2, its on the 4x2 face.
There is an ACC fuse in there. Its not blown. If I remove it, the rear cigar lighter and the radio don’t light up (I suspect the front socket is also fed by this fuse).
There is another fusebox behind the glovebox. This has a 15A fuse with a suitable name. May also be ACC, but again, it is good (tested by substitution and visual inspection).
We had another Toyota years ago and one of sockets didn’t work. I found the earth wasn’t connected, so made one up……
This made no difference to the problem.
I then checked the unit itself and found that there wasn’t continuity between its positive feed and the centre connector for the plug. I concluded that it had had a piece of wire as part of that path that was sized so as to act as a fuse in the case of short circuit / overcurrent. I suspect this has happened with my current car.
The first link shows how easy it is to remove the connector that is located to the side of the radio. The video is about removing the radio but the 12V cigar/power connector has to be be removed first. This is one of the questions you asked.
Are you sure that there is not a blown fuse in the plug? On many the centre connection on the plug is one side of the fuse holder. The centre connection may/will just unscrew.
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Apologies!!
I will give it a watch
I plugged my LED voltmeter & USB charger into the socket, and my Bluetooth / FM doobry.
Neither worked in that socket anymore, but do still work elsewhere.
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