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1993 Mercury Tracer cigarette lighter

The cigarette lighter quit working while useing a cell phone charger. Removing part of the console found the outer caseing loose tightened everthing back and checked the fuses. No fuse for the lighter. Still no power?

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I assume that you tried the cigarette lighter itself and didnt rely solely that the charger was working properly. When you tightened the ring on caseing did you see that the wire connected on the back of the lighter was properly attatched, sometimes a good connection loosens up especially if caseing was found to be loose.. Well assuming it was properly connected you could test the circuit with either a multimeter or 12 volt test light if power is found at connection then you problem is definetly the cigarette lighter assembly itself.. I hope this was helpful...Let me know I would appreciate it

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Your lighter should be on a twenty amp, assy fuse I believe. Have you checked to make sure you have no voltage at your lighter, if so it is the fuse. all assy on every car have fuses

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