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Hey Guys. 98 TJ 4.0. Aftermarket Kenwood Stereo. Stock cigarette lighter.
I've spent the last hour searching for an answer to this one. A while back my cigarette lighter stopped working. Thought I had checked all fuses, but my friend made me realize I was wrong on that. While tearing apart the dash, I noticed that the radio had been wired into my cigarette lighter.
Replaced the bad fuse; cig lighter works fine now. But that has almost left me with more questions than answers. Is it normal for someone to wire the radio into the cigarette lighter? Why would the radio keep working even when the lighter didn't?
I was thinking about running the radio wire back to the fuze box and attaching it to the proper radio fuse. Good idea? Though, when I have made that wire contact that #15 spot (even without a fuse in it), it hear a click that sounds like it's coming from the steering column/ignition switch area. Again, normal?
Thanks guys
I've spent the last hour searching for an answer to this one. A while back my cigarette lighter stopped working. Thought I had checked all fuses, but my friend made me realize I was wrong on that. While tearing apart the dash, I noticed that the radio had been wired into my cigarette lighter.
Replaced the bad fuse; cig lighter works fine now. But that has almost left me with more questions than answers. Is it normal for someone to wire the radio into the cigarette lighter? Why would the radio keep working even when the lighter didn't?
I was thinking about running the radio wire back to the fuze box and attaching it to the proper radio fuse. Good idea? Though, when I have made that wire contact that #15 spot (even without a fuse in it), it hear a click that sounds like it's coming from the steering column/ignition switch area. Again, normal?
Thanks guys