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• blinker bulbholder cover
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 29 Mar 1997 09:42:48 -0900
  ...the other one rusted away.) Love, Lotus vwvan82@ptialaska.net < Zero cigarettes since 6-3-96 ...> "Bring the soul to the hole." ----- Dr. J -----
• Re: power in bus for a PC (little Vanagon)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sun, 28 May 2000 09:46:04 -0700
  ...One is a power inverter that plugs into the cigarette lighter and > then has a box that has a standard american 120V type plug...
• Re: Cigarette Lighter
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:52:12 -0700
  ...Mark vw woody wrote: > The last on the list was replacing the damn cigarette lighter as it was spinning in the dash and occasionally...
• Re: [NVC] Possibly the most useful camping gadget ever
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:30:03 -0800
  Re: "*I got a neighbor two houses up the street with an enormous cigarette boat trailered in front of his house. He likes to...
• Re: Strong dual USB?
  Historical mailing list - Eric Caron
  Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:33:01 -0400
  ...I'm not an electrical expert. > > The cigarette lighter outlet, brake lights, interior lights, are on an > 8 Amp fuse. > > The internet shows charge...
• re:MRE's & Spam (umm,umm,good)
  Historical mailing list
  10 Oct 95 18:26:00 -0500
  ...and you don't even get the John Wayne Toilet Paper or the John Wayne >>Candy Bar anymore. :) or the cigarettes you could trade...
• Re: Strange hole in dash
  Historical mailing list - Chris Holtz
  Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:06:27 -0800
  ...Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:05:51 -0800 > >Anybody know what the little hole about 6" to the right of the cigarette >lighter is...
• Re: Truth in Advertising - Friday Funny
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:20:50 -0700
  ...He very pointedly looked at the drink, looked at the cigarette, looked at her and said: 'I think maybe you're really just a...
• Solar Panel Sale
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:30:54 -0700
  ...to a battery, or various types of voltage connections including a cigarette lighter type, 9V, �etc. �Sale price: �$169.99� I've never used...
• Re: Does JCW sell exhaust for '84 Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:16:14 -0900
  ...Or call 321-431-6102 (I have no connection to this, or any other company.) Love, Miz Lotus-Woman vwvan82@ptialaska.net < Zero cigarettes...
• Re: Canadian border/was police searches
  Historical mailing list - Robert A. Alexander
  Mon, 16 Nov 1998 17:18:27 -0500
  ...in NC who told me about how he's been smuggling cigarettes into Canada for years and bringing animal pelts back to NC with...
• Re: cigarette lighter behind drivers seat
  Historical mailing list - Kris Estes
  Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:48:42 MST
  Hello all, Can anyone tell me how that power connection works behind the drivers seat. It looks like a standard cigarete lighter connection but...
• schrader valves/cig lighters
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:51:50 EST
  ...Ditto cigarette lighter size - My Valentine One radar detector plug, (american standard size) falls out of my folk's '00 GTI/VR6, and their...
• AC Controls
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 17 May 2008 21:45:59 -0700
  ...from the duct above down to the dash next to the cigarette lighter? I'm cataloging the year to year differences and I'm...
• RE: alt. & OXS lights freaky
  Historical mailing list - Michael A. Radtke
  Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:34:25 -0700
  ...the cigarette lighter socket will do fine ... and when you catch the vanagon with the idiot lights on: 1) Turn on lots of stuff...
• mystery silver box?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:36:18 -0800
  ...And I still can't figure out what that silver box about the size of a pack of cigarettes is that is mounted up...
• Q: How do we clean the headliner?
  Historical mailing list - Michael S. Nichols
  Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:10:28 -0400
  Hello from Atlanta Ga.---My headliner is cigarette stained caused by previous owner.I noticed this really well when we took overhead A/C...
• Re: Cigarette lighter socket standard?
  Historical mailing list - Dan Aldrich
  Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:57:54 -0500
  This sounds like the European standard plugs. I have the same problem in my Saab. Fortunately the adapters aren't hard to find. Sprint...
• Re: Power Outlet (Cigarette Lighter) Rotating
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:13:37 -0700
  ...http://www.autobarn.net/xxx8714series.html ) that plugs into the 12v Cigarette lighter outlet. It is great so my soon-to-be-ex-wife...
• Re: A "Get High Campout." What does it mean?
  Historical mailing list - Aristotle Sagan
  Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:28:19 -0800
  ...If I had to deal with cigarettes or drugs I >would not complain, I would just leave unless there were special >circumstances, like in...
• Re: 12 Volt Outlet - Source?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:37:23 -0700
  ...All of the outlets I've found online are designed >>>> to plug >>>> into the existing cigarette lighter. An archive search did not >>>> answer this...
• Re: What is that darn silver thing on my Westy diesel dash???????
  Historical mailing list - OOMKES Robin
  Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:49:53 +0200
  ...detector/phone charger/vacuum cleaner/cooler/breakdown light comes with a cigarette lighter plug, not with the silver thingy. Yet we get the silver...
• Re: New Microwave oven
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:20:40 -0800
  ...Mark Dennis Haynes wrote: > Maybe it has a low power setting for "cigarette lighter socket" operation. > 660 watts @ 12 volts is 55 amps. Evenif...
• Real Men/Cupholders
  Historical mailing list - Charles \"luke\" Lukey
  15 Nov 96 23:26:53 EST
  My brother-in-law can drink a cup of coffee, smoke a cigarette and eat a donut while driving his Mazda 5-speed pickup...
• Re: Round silver thing under clock?
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Sat, 25 Jan 1997 13:59:59 -0800
  ...that round silver thing under the clock, that looks like a cigarette >lighter is. I've looked through the books and nothing is mentioned...
• more on silver sockets
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:38:03 -0800
  ...trivia masters I just came upon several NOS (I think) VW cigarette lighters. The part number is ZVW171109 They are Manufactured by Casco Products...
• Re: Solar Panel - Diode question for Westy
  Historical mailing list - ralph meyermann
  Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:42:24 -0600
  ...I don't know if this has a diode or if a diode is in the cigarette lighter.
• Re: Great John Muir Article Compleat with Video!
  Historical mailing list - James Henry
  Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:58:44 -0400
  ...And I did not even have to wait for the time it would take to roll a cigarette. Many smiles Jim Henry 84 westy...
• Re: loose cigarette lighter
  Historical mailing list - honemastert
  Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:47:19 -0700
  On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:30 PM, The Westy man <zolo@foxinternet.net> wrote: > As far as I can remember, it is...
• Re: Voltage surges
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 22 May 2010 10:47:01 -0400
  At 08:12 AM 5/22/2010, Steve Williams wrote: >A classic ground loop, right? The cigarette lighter plug isn't >grounded in the...
• Re: /f in Defense of Spam
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:08:25 -0800
  ...and you don't even get the John Wayne Toilet Paper or the John Wayne >Candy Bar anymore. :) or the cigarettes you could trade...
• Re: Oil Drip...
  Historical mailing list - Courtney Snow
  Sun, 16 May 1999 22:01:10 -0700
  ...What would be the easiest way to fix this? > > Also, anyone have a cigarette lighter from an '85 in good shape they'd sell...
• Re: Strange hole in dash
  Historical mailing list - Steve Lashley
  Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:17:37 EST
  ...including a plug that fits both the silver socket and your cigarette lighter outlet, as well as a 3 way adapter. Steve Lashley SKL...
• Re: The good trickle charger
  Historical mailing list - -- Dan Roberts
  Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:48:25 -0400
  ...I was a bit surprised to see you suggested connecting the charger through the cigarette lighter. That is more convenient, of course, but I...
• Re: [NVC] ABC News: Embalmed in Your Own RV
  Historical mailing list - Matt Roberds
  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:40:07 -0500
  ...Driving up a mountain really fast (OK, maybe not), chili dinners at campouts, the cigarettes that only get stubbed out in the special ashtray...
• Re: XM 1000 by Xantrex
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:37:46 -0700
  Is there a 12-volt (cigarette plug) adapter for the MacBook? That would be more efficient. If not, then I have used plenty of...
• Re: Mystery dash outlet '83.5 GL Westy
  Historical mailing list - Turner,Ronald L.
  19 Jan 97 02:04:58 EST
  ...Anyway, the '74-'75 westy air compressor pump plug fit in here, and I have seen a small cigarette lighter fit in here. This...
• Trickle charger on hard to access House Battery
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Sat, 24 Oct 2020 22:05:22 +0000
  ...hole just behind parking brake lever to add a 12 VDC cigarette lighter socket; the idea was to have a convenient port operating directly...
• Re: 12 Volt Outlet - Source?
  Historical mailing list - Calle Fallberg
  Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:44:04 +0200
  ...12 Volt Outlet - Source? > I reckon what Chris is looking for is a panel-mount dual 12V "outlet" -- > two "cigarette lighter" sockets on a...
• High quality two pole 60A wiring connectors
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:41:23 +0100
  There was a thread the other dayabout wiring connectors, cigarette lighter plugs, etc.� I bought some of these http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...
• Re: Lovin' my new GPS!
  Historical mailing list - Chris Szpejankowski
  Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:28:09 -0400
  ...08:26 szpejankowski@gmail.com napisał(a): > Cut off the GPS cigarette plug and wire it directly to power at fuse box. > > Wysłane z...
• Re: Mini Fridge
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:40:02 -0500
  ...The thing is I already have a 300 watt inverter that plugs in the > cigarette lighter socket and I have my son's dorm...
• Re: Bus Boys Back, Catalogs Anyone?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:57:24 -0900
  ...Love, Lotus (Flower of the North) vwvan82@ptialaska.net < Zero cigarettes since 6-3-96 ...> "Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the...
• Re: Smoked Tailights Interested??
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 22:21:05 EDT
  ...Kyle >> First it was cigarettes. Then Oysters, Ham, and Turkey. What will they smoke next? gmbulley cary, nc p.s. Will the first five...
• Re: Voltmeter
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:51:38 EDT
  ...Any suggestions? I have a tiny little digital battery meter made by Whistler that plugs into a cigarette lighter outlet. They cost about $11...
• Re: westy silver socket - where to get plug?
  Historical mailing list - Don in North Carolina
  Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:51:56 -0400
  ...for the silver socket that will convert it to a > regular cigarette lighter plug? I heard bmw uses same type for their > motorcycles but...
• Re: Problems with cigarette lighter?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:02:28 -0500
  ...Maas <katherine@kjmaas.com > >wrote: > > > Anyone else had problems with cigarette lighter blowing when you plug in > a > > computer with an inverter/adapter? I...
• Re: Solar Battery Chargers
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:34:01 -0700
  ...up to my Westy's cigarette lighter and the other to my '92 Ford > T-bird Super Coupe cigarette lighter (loved that car, have...
• Re: USB power?
  Historical mailing list - Shawn MacDonald
  Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:54:48 -0400
  ...You'll never use a cigarette lighter socket again... 'cept for a lighter Shawn 87 Syncro "Eeyore" 86 Westy Weekender
• Re: VW Solar Battery Charger Part No. 1CO 915 687- Any experience?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:24:04 -0800
  ...IIRC it is meant to be plugged into the cigarette lighter socket. Theoretically it could be used to charge or maintain other devices. But...
• Re: "Koolatron" cooler
  Historical mailing list - William A. Killian
  Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:30:16 -0500 (EST)
  ...It says the cooler is powered by > regular 12v car battery current, and can be plugged into your cigarette > lighter. We have an Igloo...
• WTB: Digifant Idle Stabilizer Control Unit
  Historical mailing list - Dave
  Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:28:53 -0500
  ...s the black box about the size of a pack or cigarettes that is located behind the passenger side tail light. TIA Dave Filcoff...
• Re: USB power?
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 6 Sep 2011 18:33:56 -0700
  ...I > installed extra cigarette lighters so 12V is still available. > > In fact, I have two cigarette lighters buried in the dash, one with a...
• Re: Cigarette lighter wiring
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:56:48 -0500
  > > > The vans are 1990 Carat, 1990 tintop syncro, 1989 GL tintop. >> > Look at Bentley page 07.215, track 132. You can get easy access...
• Re: Last air cooled model?
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Wed, 6 Feb 2002 12:18:20 -0600
  ...The engine was also coated with an engine oil and cigarette ash mix.) Seems that 81 was a good year for Vanagons. Wonder what...
• Re: loose cigarette lighter
  Historical mailing list - Allan Streib
  Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:04:58 -0400
  I know what you mean, but the nice thing about the stock lighter socket is that it's illuminated. I'd just like to...
• Re: Good stuff from JC Whipme?
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:25:11 -0700
  ...Anyway, for about $40, they list one of those solar panel charge through your cigarette lighter deally bobs. That size panel will ONLY provide...
• Re: Lousy Cigarette Lighter Plugs was inverter lighter plug cable?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Fri, 1 Sep 2006 07:35:22 EDT
  ...In vanagons especially, the jacks were designed for lighting cigarette lighter, not powering laptops, GPS units, ipods, cellphones, and the refrigerator all simultaneously. I...
• Re: /f in Defense of Spam
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Stivers
  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:48:04 -0400 (EDT)
  ...and you don't even get the John Wayne Toilet Paper or the John Wayne > Candy Bar anymore. :) or the cigarettes you could trade...
• Re: AC power in a Westy
  Historical mailing list - Wes Johnson
  Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:29:56 -0700
  ...auto adapter for your brand of laptop and plug into the cigarette lighter. While you are driving, the laptop will run off the car...