Heya everyone. This is my first post in the forum, wonder if anyone can help!?

I have a 5dr 1.2 Stilo Active and would like to change the cigar lighter. It doesnt hold my Mp3 player plug well as it just keeps popping out and doesnt charge it up. My SatNav one still doesnt secure properly but at least it can get a charge going. Went to Fiat the other day and they said it would be about £15 to buy a new one which aint that bad, but then they wanted like £60 to fit it, which I thought was steep for a silly lighter lol

Does anyone know how I could change it myself? Think the middle section might need to be taken out, but havent a clue where to start with that lol My sister has just bought a new Punto Grande and they have power outlets instead of cigar lighters....would prefer one of them!

Thanks

I too would like to know more about this since the one in my car you have to turn the satnav charger thing around slowly untill see green light on it so it will charge :/ so could do with new one.

I would think it's easy enough to change it, but what I've done is actually take a feed from the battery into the upper glovebox and wired in a 4 way cigar socket splitter. You keep it looking original and give yourself 4 more sockets without cables all over the cockpit.

Be a lot easier to extend it towards the front of the car surely :chin:

I've done that to mine - just used a double socket

Was easy enough, but I already had the feed from when I had the amp in the boot. It's only one cable and it's near enough exactly where you need it coming through the bulkhead.

Mine works finely

only problem is that its set quite far back, so you have trail the sat nav lead all around to the front of the windscreen .

i try and charge my satnav up before i set off (home charger), and prefer it to be at the right hand side of the windscreen where its out of the way, and a little bit easier to see

Joshua Frost-Lunn said:

only problem is that its set quite far back, so you have trail the sat nav lead all around to the front of the windscreen .

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Another reason I put an auxilliary fuse box and feed in the upper glovebox.

ChrisMClark said:

Another reason I put an auxilliary fuse box and feed in the upper glovebox.

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I dont use mine that often to justify having to do that

My satnav has a decent battery life of about 4 hours, which is about as long as i travel for

It's useful though, it means if I want to charge my phone, headset, sat nav whatever I can sling it in the glove box so no trailing cables everywhere.

ChrisMClark said:

It's useful though, it means if I want to charge my phone, headset, sat nav whatever I can sling it in the glove box so no trailing cables everywhere.

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true

the stilo needs a secret coin storage place. near the gearstick isnt good enough, and if you load it up some of the coins fall out

my micra used to have a little pull out drawer just below the cd player

As Chris has said it's much neater and more practical if you add an adapter.

Here's mine down by my left feg.



My coin holder is always full and coins never fall out.

You don't want instructions on what coins to fit do you

Joshua Frost-Lunn said:

true

the stilo needs a secret coin storage place. near the gearstick isnt good enough, and if you load it up some of the coins fall out

my micra used to have a little pull out drawer just below the cd player

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Its called the ashtray!!!

i hardly ever use the coin tray, always have my wallet on me

yea i wudnt mind changin this myself?
see the one from Fiat, is that just a replacement for the actual charger itself, you have to use all the original trim i presume?
i like Chris's idea, i mite do that as phone charger and sat nav tucked away neatly wud be nice
for me thats my Subway cupboard it fits a 12" beautifully

tho i have had this problem with coins of the fallin out quite a bit, problem is, when they fall out they fall on the subframe of the seating and my guess is that something is stuck in the release for the seat, cz it doesnt slide foward nemore when i pull the lever to tilt the seat foward (3 door) bt it does slide foward when you pull the tab under the seat up, weird one

I had one of those splitters in the same place Argo, but this plug kept falling out, and it meant I couldn't use the lighter (I'm a dirty filthy tabbing b*st*rd ) so I opted for the hardwire approach. Wasn't difficult at all, hardest part was getting the cable through the bulkhead when I fitted my sub. Took the sub out after the amp drained my battery and used the live feed for the auxilliary fusebox in the upper glove box.

Steely said:

Its called the ashtray!!!

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it was actually a coin holder not an ashtray

i still have a fault somewhere on the fag lighter meaning the fuse keeps blowing.

Does it blow when you plug in a mobile phone charger by any chance??

There's a size difference!

Just a general point and probably one that is completely USELESS to everyone here, but something I discovered years ago...

European lighter sockets are BIGGER than Japanese or American lighter sockets (really, I'm not making this up). I discovered this by accident when I tried to fit a FIAT lighter plug into a replacement socket that I had purchased, and it didn't fit.

Conversely the Belkin Auto Kit (iPod charger/lineout converter) was always a slack fit in my Alfa and a lottery in my X1/9 (twist until the light comes on, etc.)

It's not a fault with the socket, it's a size thing!

To get around it, you can purchase a replacement 'general purpose' socket (from Halfords perhaps?) which will be smaller if it's the Japanese/American standard, and then carefully replace the original with this (will need to crimp/splice the wires), and suddenly everything will be a nice tight fit.


Cheers,
-Alex

Hi, I'm in the similar situation; mobile holder charger cable is too short to cig lighter.
Want to run a cable from the battery, as mentioned in this thread, but not sure where to get the suitable bits from.
Does anyone know if you can buy a extra cig lighter wiring kit?

I.e.

length of suitable grade wire, with fuse

Cig female adapter

Fittings etc



Thanks