re: 89 200TQ Fuse Blown

["frank j. bauer" <frankbauer@thevine.net>]

At 11:34 AM 6/17/99 -0400, Phil & Judy Rose wrote:
>Do you have the cigarette lighter installed in the rear? Has anyone been
>using it lately?
>
>Recently I encountered fuse #4 blowing while I tried to re-establish the
>function of the rear-seat cigarette lighter (rear center console). Once I
>reconnected the lighter's power (it was disabled by the PO) I discovered
>that there was a short circuit in the lighter(which appears improbable, but
>it did indeed blow that fuse.)

i had this problem after my son put a dime in the rear cig lighter.
i also can't imagine how it can short internally, but it is indeed shorted.

frank