Cigarette Lighter sockets

David Day wrote:

OK.  I actually read your post this time.  (((c:

Somewhere like Maplins might be able to do you a low profile cigarette
lighter plug.  I dunno for sure but its the sort of place I'd start,
there or Halfrauds.

If you have any bodging capability at all:

Maplins'll also do cigarette lighter socket kits.  You could plumb a
second socket into your glovebox for instance, or into where the rear
ashtray would be.  Perhaps there is an option on your car for an
auxiliary socket somewhere, you could gather the bits from a scrappy or
dealer and plumb that in instead.

Cigarette lighter sockets are cumbersome though.  I'd be after something
more subtle.  I'd chop the end off my satnav power connector (fnarr),
bung some sort of fuse in and wire it up to something like the back of
the cigarette lighter.  I'd fit the same power connector with a little
trailing cable perhaps to my other cars so's I could swap my sat nav
over between them.  Cigarette lighter would then be free to light
cigarettes or charge phone depending on requirements.

Sounds a bit clever eh?

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Douglas

The only place I coudl find one was in a shop in Chorlton-cum-Hardy. It
seemed to be Handy Ahmed's Finest Fish Bazaar and Car Spares Emporium
because it was one of those places that sells everything. And it's a
crackingly good adapter, three sockets and the plug flods over to make a
compact shape for storage in the glove box. Cost pennies and works well.

I have another one from Maplin, four sockets on a lead also works well.

The big problem is the word "Astra" because the ciggy lighter on Astras
is bloody useless. It only seems to fit the Astra lighter. Everything
else I've tried to use with it (my GPS, phone charger, Belkin adapter
for iPod, charger for laptop) all fall out of the socket which just
seems to be badly made/out of spec.

I think you meant to type 'I've' but obviously you are incapable of the
simplest etc etc etc and I've been on usenet longer than you  etc etc etc
and you somehow managed to misconstrue my last post entirely which is not a
surprise considering etc etc etc and please stop top posting in HTML etc and
here's your post's header information presented in a vaguely threatening
manner and I've informed your ISP so there etc etc.

produce the following words of wisdom

Leave the poor sod alone. He's got an Astra. He deserves all the help he can
get.

Motor World etc do cig adapters but Ged only knows how good they are.


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