A few years ago, I just replaced my cigarette lighter with the American
version bought at a FLAPS.  My cell phone and CD adaptor fit it
perfectly with no adaptors.  It looks sort of VW-ish, but has the North
American diameter.  It also has the lighted green ring around the
circumference.

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Donald Baxter  Iowa City, Iowa
(319) 337-0494
www.mindspring.com/~onanov

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Steve Hoge
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:39 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Cigarette lighter socket standard

Dave M wrote:

>In the Vanagon it fit very loosely, flopped around,
>and would not stay secure

Wow, I thought it was just mine. I've tried a couple of lighter socket
accessories in my '89 dashboard and they never fit snugly, worked
intermittently, fell out, etc.  Any hints for retrofitting a "real"
socket?

-Steve