Hello techs, I have recently discovered that my cig lighter doesnt work because of under dash lights that some dumbo wired into the lighter. Ive undid all of that wiring and put all the wires back to spec.

White with blue stripe back to cigarette lighter socket and grounded it. Yet no power to the lighter still. So I whipped out the multimeter and tested the wire and the socket and both are getting 12.1 volts with key turned to acc.
No fuses blown, but I cant get the lighter to heat up and pop back out or the cell phone charger to charge even know the socket has 12v. Any help would be appreciated!

 

I would only suspect the cigarette lighter socket or the cigarette lighter element has failed in some sort of way, most likely a connection problem between the two because of this.

Does a cell phone charger or navigation unit charger work in the socket?
If not I would double check and possibly replace/repair the socket.

I would look towards replacing the cigarette lighter itself if other accessories are getting power.

 

I am going to grab a universal one really quick and see if that does the trick. Will report back.

 

Did you test the ground wire with a multimeter or test light?

 

Multimeter, but its okay it was the socket. Thanks ron & bee