Date:         Wed, 9 Apr 2014 10:31:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cigarette Lighter
Comments: To: vw woody <vwwoody@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Sooner or later you are going to have to master the Bentley wiring diagrams,
and you'll be glad you did.  Start with the explanation on p. 97.4.
Sometimes I'll photo copy a page and use colored pencils to trace the wire
color(s) along the lines.

Otherwise you are flying blind, and with the diagrams you can tell pretty
easily what a PO may have buggered up and fix it.

Hours of fun!

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
vw woody
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 9:52 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Cigarette Lighter

To the listees smarter than me, all of you !
I am stumped. I have completed dozens of electrical mods over the winter.
All successful and working fine.The last on the list was replacing the damn
cigarette lighter as it was spinning in the dash and occasionally shorting
out.I am replacing it with the GoWesty illuminated replacement. No
problem...easy as hell right....Well, the wires are barely long enough for
me to crimp on the connectors needed to combine the 2 brown wires and the 2
red wires.I didn't feel like removing the stereo.In pulling the wires out of
the dash to crimp on the female connectors I must have pulled something
loose. For the life of me I cannot figure out which connection I messed up.
This circuit is suppose to be hot at all times, #3 fuse is fine. Replaced it
anyway. I now have no power to everything on the #3 fuse ( interior
lights,clock,radio, lighter) Any help would be VERY much appreciated. I
don't ask for help very often, but this easy fix has been anything but easy
for me. At this point I could run a whole new wire , but I would rather keep
it stock. I don't have a good full size schematic and the Bentley schematic
is hard for me to decipher.
I have the instrument panel exposed, stereo out, glove box out , and fuse
box lowered , and I can't find any loose connections.

Thank you in advance !!!!

      woody
"keep on pushin"                                          =