Car Cigarette socket issue

floydmoon1 · 10-07-2010 2:08pm #1

Hey lads.
I have a citroen berlingo multispace 1.4l and the front cigarette lighter outputs 12v.
There is a cigarette lighter socket in the boot but it only gives out 8V.
Any ideas what the issue could be.

Thanks for the help.

colm_mcm · 10-07-2010 3:54pm

contacts at the back may be rusty, of plug itself may be.

floydmoon1 · 10-07-2010 5:17pm

I have taken it apart and testing the wires itself still get 8V.

Max_Damage · 10-07-2010 8:26pm

Well, going by your sig, if you're taking it to Mongolia, the cigarette lighter is going to be the least of your worries!

floydmoon1 · 10-07-2010 9:40pm

Max_Damage wrote: »

Well, going by your sig, if you're taking it to Mongolia, the cigarette lighter is going to be the least of your worries!

Well yes it is going to Mongolia so would like to get the cigarette charger worker

Any help would be nice.

Eric Cartman · 11-07-2010 2:31pm

does the socket stay on while the cars on and off ? or does it only come on with the engine started ? if the latter there may be a relay broken somewhere that could be adding resistance and dropping it to 8 volts, if not id say it could be a bad ground or some cable thats been spliced to install some piece of aftermarket gear (fan, lights, heater, more sockets, cb radio etc...) and is leaving that 8v drop accross the socket

Car Cigarette socket issue

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