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uvachief
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Light bulbs or electrical problem brewing?
Since March, I've had the driver's fog light and both left and right front marker lights go out. They are the original units and bulbs from 1986. Chalking it up to the bulbs giving up the ghost finally and about to place them. However, I noticed today that the cigarette lighter is also out. Do I have an electrical issue brewing? Where is the fuse for the cigarette lighter?
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Sincerely, uvachief  1986 944 NA Red 5SPD |
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05-02-2013, 07:52 AM
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Frankly my dear....
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Looking at the circuit diagram it appears that for USA cars the cig lighter shares a feed with the clock and glovebox lights. If these are still working then the fuse to that circuit is OK. Is it just the light around the cig lighter that has gone, or the operation of the lighter?
TBH - I don't think you have an electrical issue brewing, you have been very lucky to have the original bulbs last that long! Your new ones will probably not last anywhere near that time, as production quality these days is not what it used to be!
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Porsche - accept no substitute Blue 1999 Boxster - Brief encounter! Black 1988 944S - Ongoing project Black 1987 944S - Gone but not forgotten Metallic Black 1980 924 - Those were the days.... Red 1979 924 - Hmm Minerva blue 1979 924 - Where it all began! |
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05-02-2013, 08:07 AM
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The clock is definitely still working. I have not checked the glove box light. Basically, my cell phone charger is no longer pulling a charge when plugged into the cigarette lighter and the element doesn't heat to light a cigar. Prior to the 4-20-13, it would pull a charge for a cell phone charger and heat but you had to hold it physically down to heat. It would not hold and then release itself.
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Sincerely, uvachief 1986 944 NA Red 5SPD Last edited by uvachief; 05-02-2013 at 08:37 AM.. Reason: misspelling |
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05-02-2013, 08:37 AM
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My cigarette lighter holder wouldn't work with anything that was plugged into it. I had to go to autozone and get a generic one and install it (a little mod) so my phone charger or radar would plug in and stay in.
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3 944's, 2 Boxsters and one Caman S, and now one 951 turbo. Really miss the Cayman. Some people try to turn back their "odometers." Not me. I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. |
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05-02-2013, 11:28 AM
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Porsche 944 NA
1986 Porsche 951
