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penny in the cig. lighter = dead radio... help? by atleastitruns
Started on: 09-27-2004 07:35 PM
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Random Lessons of Life presents...

Things to Teach Your 16 y/o Sister:
DO NOT PUT PENNIES [or other conductors of electricity] IN THE CIGARETTE LIGHTER!!!
- moral of the story: if you value your radio, don't have your sister get the change from when you fill up w/ gas.

Question: which fuse deals with the radio?

Janell
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Report this Post09-27-2004 07:45 PM Click Here to See the Profile for fierofetishSend a Private Message to fierofetishDirect Link to This Post
Hi Janell
the fuse you are looking for is the middle one on the row but one from the bottom..it has radio written just belowe it...the only problem
i can see, is that this is not the fuse for the cigarette lighter...that is the one just above it, to the right, with BAT written below it.I really canīt see how it is possible to blow this fuse by shorting out the lighter, but there you go!!
Good luck!!
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Report this Post09-27-2004 08:02 PM Click Here to See the Profile for atleastitrunsSend a Private Message to atleastitrunsDirect Link to This Post
the radio fuse isn't blown, but it looks like we don't have a fuse for the cig lighter. uh oh.

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It's the Ctsy fuse.. i did the same thing ... damn pennys! if the letters on ur fuse block are worn off use the diagram in your owners manual.. and if you still cand find it just pull all of them and test them. I will bet you cash that its the CTSY fuse , and not the rear ctsy fuse , theres 2 .. i got them confused and spent 2 hours trying to figure it out....
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Report this Post09-27-2004 08:23 PM Click Here to See the Profile for atleastitrunsSend a Private Message to atleastitrunsDirect Link to This Post
GOT IT!!! thanks weponhead. it was exactly that fuse. got it fixed!

now to remember how to set my clock

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If you don't smoke (I hope you're not that dumb), disconnect the wire to the lighter and it will never happen again. You might want to check the back of the fuse block to make sure it didn't melt anything for other curcits.
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Report this Post09-27-2004 08:49 PM Click Here to See the Profile for atleastitrunsSend a Private Message to atleastitrunsDirect Link to This Post
 
quote
Originally posted by Francis T:

If you don't smoke (I hope you're not that dumb), disconnect the wire to the lighter and it will never happen again. You might want to check the back of the fuse block to make sure it didn't melt anything for other curcits.

I use it for my cell charger... or else I would have disconnected it awhile ago. and thanks for the tip on the back of the fuse block. I'll go check now.

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Report this Post09-27-2004 08:52 PM Click Here to See the Profile for ricreatrSend a Private Message to ricreatrDirect Link to This Post
oh yeah, lots of times, and people get real upset when you tell them the pennys arent covered by warranty!

please dont kill the cig lighter. i need it to plug in the tech 1 for service!

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