Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:09:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@CYBERTRAILS.COM>
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From:         Geo & Kathleen Hahn <ahwahnee@CYBERTRAILS.COM>
Subject:      Re: removing stock lighter socket
Comments: To: George Thorburn <thorgk@ACCESSCOMM.CA>
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---- Original Message -----
From: "George Thorburn"
>Does anyone have a quick "how to" for removing the stock dash mounted
>lighter socket?

From a long ago post or webpage (sorry, don't know who to credit):

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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.