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David Johnson
David Johnson Posted on Sep 02, 2008
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Radio and cigarette lighter

My sister plugged a defective cell phone charger into the cigarette lighter of my 92 Mazda Miata. After that, the radio and the cigarette lighter(that I would like to plug my own working charger into) would not work.I checked the fuse "box", but could not identify which fuse protects the radio and cigarette lighter part of the circuitry. I don't have an owner's manual and the two parts stores that I went to in town could not help me locate the correct fuse.How is the fuse that I am looking for labeled? ..or how do I identify the culprit fuse? Thanks, DAVE

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  • Anonymous Mar 16, 2014

    the lighter/ac adapter plug in went out, checked fuse and fuse is ok

  • Anonymous Mar 23, 2014

    cigarette lighter no work radio does. fuse is good. is there another fuse somewhere???

  • Anonymous Mar 24, 2014

    It's a verizon charger and I have been reading that there have been other people with the same problem

  • Anonymous Mar 24, 2014

    It's a Verizon charger

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You can pull the fuses one at a time and look at them.You will know the bad fuse when you see it.

  • Tali Zahed
    Tali Zahed Dec 06, 2013

    Mechanic used the special device and all the fuses went on, showed the light on the divice. Still we could not work it out which one was the lighter and the description on the box had no fuse number indicating lighter or cigar!

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