Date:         Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:48:28 -0800
Reply-To:     kayakjr@JUNO.COM
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From:         John Reynolds <kayakjr@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lighter plug in dash a big joke...
Comments: cc: tolga@MAC.COM
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Tolga,

        To hold the lighter socket in when the tabs are broken is to cut a short
piece of appropriate size rubber heater hose to fit around the back of
the lighter socket.  You might have to slice the heater hose lengthwise,
can't quite remember.  Put the socket back in the dash, put the heater
hose over the back and using either a hose clamp or a Nylon zip tie
tighten up the rubber hose.  Have the hose tight against the back of the
dash before tightening.  I didn't quite have a hose clamp that was narrow
enough to work, so I used the zip tie.  Seems to hold great.  Tain't
going nowhere now.

If you need the large heater hose, I believe that I have some left over -
send me a p-mail.

A radar detector I bought once came with a thin narrow round tube to
place in the lighter socket to use on European cars.   Perhaps making
some circular shim, will work for you.

John
81 Westy -
no longer for sale and now people call me back - what do I do?