Date:         Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:26:22 -0500
Reply-To:     James Fritz <jfritz@willinet.net>
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From:         James Fritz <jfritz@willinet.net>
Subject:      Long live the list!!!
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Thank god for the list!!

Tim Hannink had figured out how to remove the cigarette lighter without breaking it.  Give that man a cigar!  Thanks Tim!

Happily, I was able to do it in less than 5 minutes once I had some clue how.  Not a big deal.  If you've fought with it before check out Tim's instructions (pasted below)

We leave for Colorado in an hour.  Everything is cool.  I couldn't do it if it weren't for you guys/gals.  Thanks a bunch!

Jim in Iowa
91 Passat Wagon GL
89 Westy
66 Beetle

Tim Hannink wrote:
OK, I couldn't remember how exactly I got my lighter out, so I went out to
the Turtle and removed it, just to make sure I really had done it before.

Unplug the electrical connection from the back of the lighter. You can
remove the glove box for visual support, but watch your head on the hinge
bracket when you try to look back there.

Remove the lighter itself from the socket.

Look inside the socket. You will see a set of parallel slots about 1/16"
wide and 3/8" long with a rectangular slot behind it about 3/16" wide by
1/8" long. There should be two sets of these slots, opposite each other
inside the socket.

In the rear rectangular slot, there should be a green plastic tab filling
the slot.

Take a small regular screwdriver, put it between the green plastic and the
rear part of the rectangular slot, and bend the metal on the rear of the
slot upward (toward the center of the socket) slightly.

Stick your finger inside the socket and pull forward, it should come right
out.

Tim Hannink