Cigarette Lighter

[duglia]

Well, i don't know if cigarette lighter is its official name but, anyway, i hope you'll understand what i am speaking about.
Sorry for my English, I'm Italian and i don't know exactly all names :-)

In fact i was following GaryM help for fitting the OBC by myself, and it is all OK, except for a minor damage that occurred at the bottom of that #?@*+§ cigarette lighter.
I removed the +12 and ground for the lighter itself without problems (my button takes its vital energy from there) but, when i was trying to disconnect the orange light +12, the entire plug fell (male and female together, with male partially broken):-((((
It's not a big damage, i thought.. it's just a matter of fusing some stain on the male and plug again :-D
But, a few @#£$%#+<# again, i couldn't understand how can i get the entire steel body of the cigarette lighter out of its place :-(( i am able to rotate it, but i can't find the way for extracting it :-O
How can i do?

PS: i posted this message also in Interior&Ice, but i think this place is more appropriated :-)

[duglia]

Please help me? No one knows what to do?

[TonyM]

Hi

Sorry for the lack of response but I guess this is quite an unusual request.

I don't know for sure but I would think that the cigarette lighter has a retaining clip behind the plastic housing so that, when it is assembled in the factory, they just push it in and the clip expands behinds the housing.

I would think you would have to remove the the plastic shell that surrounds the handbrake lever, cupholders etc. To remove that you would have to remove the vertical columns each side of the centre coonsole.

Sorry I can't be more help.