A penny got caught in my cigarette lighter and now my My cigarette Lighter is not working and now my A/C switch is not working I changed the fuse

Some radio power sources also tie into the cigarette lighter and power adapters. You mentioned fuses appear ok, if you dont have a test light to test both sides of the fuses try swapping the fuses around from another location and see if that changes anything.. Oh and if the penny is still in the lighter try a ball of tape of the end of a pencil to pull it out.. Look for a fuse listed aux. power or radio/cig lighter. Most likely the fuse is inside the car not under the hood..(usually)..

Check the fuse box there is one for radio but sometimes lighter shares the same fuse as radio.

hi,

there must have been a weak connection somewhere in the line.
use a volt meter to trace from the lighter to the fuse box.
I have also seen the wire connection go bad during a short in the back of the fuse box itself where the wire goes in.
follow the 12 volts and you will find your problem.

chris...

The lighter socket or the element.
Check the element for burn marks and the socket for debris blocking the contacts.

You may want to remove the penny from the cigarette lighter...

However it sounds as though you should take another minute or two and check all your fuses and replace the ones affected if any.



Good Luck and Happy Motoring

Respectfully

Dig the penny out first with something like tweezers..then change the Cigarette lighter fuse in your fuse panel. Location is on side of dash on drivers side behind the fuse panel. The cigarette lighter shares the same fuse as the door locks.

Fuse is located under the spare tire well and is in the fuse panel and is an 20 amp fuse that is slightly misaligned on the middle row of the box. This will fix cigarette lighter in ash tray in lower middle cluster of radio and a/c.

sounds like you have blowen a main fuse in engie bay

This is normal. Your cigarette lighter fuse is most probably blown and needs replacement. Check out user manual for fuse number.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b40/webby242424/fuselocations.jpg

http://www.neocarz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/2007-05-20_toyota-radio-fusebox.jpg

replace the fuse anyways... actually tho.... does the radio work as it is usally on the same fuse