Plugged a heater/fan into cig lighter socket rather than 12v socket and cd &dvd player won't work.I know where my fuse box is but don't know which fuses I should look to replace. 2005 CRD plus Voyager

for the heater fan-yes the fuse and fusible link are under the hood
for the cig lighter-no only the 15A cig/radio fuse power it

The fuse box ibnside the car is the one that has that fuse, check there.

Look at the wires coming into the radio, check for an inline fuse.

for my 2008 650i convertible I tried the socket 87 located in trunk, in front of battery, it takes yellow 20 amp, it worked, i had a penny fall in the cig lighter and shorted it. Thanks to Kudos98

if you plugged the fan into the cig socket you may have spread it out to far but the sockets unscrew from behind i donot remember if the panel pops off and there may multiple fuses as well

you could do this by running 2 wires directly from the battery to the back of the cig lighter and by fusing the positive.if it is only when using the cig lighter and not when charging a phone ect.it could be element on the cig lighter shorting

check the wiring behind the lighter and recheck fuse panel for a designated lighter fuse or the lighter housing may be bad if u have power to the lighter than replace lighter unit any auto store sells them

while snagging your tunes, these guys may have disconnected a ground wire, pull out the heater fuse, check to see if 12v is getting to the fuse at box, if so and the fuse is good,it's a ground or switch issue,they probably have a book on your car at the library with the wiring diagram, they have a copier too

Hi, grab a voltmeter and test volts at car lighter connector, near to car lighter socket, if there is volts in there (uncommon) , then check for short or broken contact on car lighter socket, or replace the first socket connected in line.

If there is no voltage getting to cig lighter, check the two connections at the back of the fuse box, on the cigarette lighter fuse.

If there is volts only on one side, then fuse is gone again, in that case there is a short on wiring, maybe on one of lighters, locate it and fix it.

If there is power on both sides of the fuse, then fix or replace wiring between fuse box and cigarette lighter, one wire is broken.

If there is no power on both sides of lighter fuse, then fix the wiring between fuse box cig. lighter contact and battery, if this is too complicate you can even build a new wiring and solder in place of the old one.

If the lighters have more than one fuse, do the same job for both lighter. Cig. lighters do not use a relay, and there is no additional fuse, the above procedure is enough to fix any possible problem on such a simple device.

If you have no practice with this kind of repair on car electrical system, then better to go to a car electrician or mechanic rather then messing up the car electric system.

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Many thanks.

check the actual socket,use another cig lighter