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Lighter works, but not with USB charger 700 1990

posted by  oldyellr on  Sat Jul 16 16:01 CST 2016
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I used my cigarette lighter socket for for my MP3 FM transmitter and and it was intermittent from time to time. It wasn't bad enough for me to dig into it to see what was wrong. I've now decommissioned my Volvo and replaced it with a Dodge Magnum because there were just too many things that needed fixing that I'd let slide and the last straw was another leaking steering rack.

Anyway, The Magnum's cigarette lighter socket was much worse and only worked intermittently 10% of the time. So I got a Dremel with a burr tip and cleaned up the rivet in the middle at the bottom of the socket. It now works all the time. It looks like when these are used for lighting cigarettes that rivet, which is where all the chargers make contact, gets badly corroded from the toxic fumes.
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1992 745, >500k km






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