hi I'm Mike the 1a auto we've been
selling auto parts for over 30 years
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it's pretty common today that people
have phone chargers plugged in these 12
volt outlets that are here basically
this is what used to be your cigarette
lighter so some people still call them
cigarette lighters even though they
don't have the element anymore and it's
just a 12 volt socket now and you can
plug your phone charger in there or GPS
or whatever else you're using you know
some people charge their computers
because they're on the road working but
whatever you can blow the fuse and those
pretty easily especially if you put in
something that draws too much power or
sometimes the way these are mounted in
the car
spare change can fall on them and short
it out and you'll blow the fuse so
there's a fuse for this one then in this
particular car there's another one also
in this car there's a power socket that
is in here and so that can be used to
charge something that's in your center
console but if they stopped working and
the outlets aren't providing power to
your devices you're going to want to
check the fuses so going down here you
can pull open the fuse panel just pull
it down it's got the fuse all the fuses
are March on the panel that's up in here
so you're reading this this arrow is
pointing up it's just like you're
looking at the fuse panel and right here
so one of these is marked cigarette or
cigar lighter and then the other one is
not mark front power socket so that'd be
the one in the console in this car you
can see one is a 15 amp and one is a 20
amp so if you've got like a high-powered
device that's drawing a lot of power
like say a computer charger or something
it keeps blowing this front one 15 amps
you should maybe try this other one
that's got 20 amps it's got more it will
take more power to blow that fuse so if
you need to change it you go up and
you'd find we're looking at this so the
20 amp is the bottom one that's our
spare then these are all color-coded and
each color represents an amperage so
20 is this yellow 15s are this blue then
so now we're up for this next 20 is the
front power socket so you can either use
take needle nose pliers and pull this
out or at the very top of this fuse
panel there's often a tool to help to
remove the fuses does it need to change
it just push this over and pull the fuse
out and then it's gonna come right out
like that and to tell if the fuse is
blown it's right in here to tell if the
fuse is blown there's a little loop of
metal these fuses are translucent if the
fuse was blown you'd see that that metal
loop was broken sometimes there might be
some burning or melt into this plastic
and that's what when it reaches the
amperage capacity of this so 20 amps it
goes beyond that it melts that metal and
blows the fuse and breaks the circuit so
you don't damage the wire in the car
this one's in good shape it's perfectly
fine I'm gonna put it back in Reverse
take it out push it in
and changing any other fuse would be the
same way replace the door when you're
done and all set oh don't forget to put
your little tool back in I left that in
my hand so I'm gonna put that back in
place clicks into place put the door
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