Date:         Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:02:25 -0500
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From:         JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cigarette Lighter
Comments: To: vw woody <vwwoody@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Woody,

You have run headlong into  Brother Murphy's admonition:

"If anything can go wrong, it will!!"

Now that it has gone wrong - I sincerely hope you find the solution soon!

John

On 4/9/2014 11:51 AM, vw woody wrote:
> 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"                                          .
>