At 01:54 PM 7/2/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Aha, so my stupid is now showing. So, that's why my electric, 12V air
>compressor plug won't stay in the lighter socket unless I hold it in.
>Thanks for the info .... now, to install the magic "Silver Socket".

Umm, no...  That's just another one of the idiosynchrosies of the vanagon
that keeps us all loving them so much.  The vanagon cigarette lighter is a
different size than the cigarette lighters of most vehicles, but if you jam
the stick from a wooden match in there with your compressor plug you're in
business. The silver socket is an even smaller diameter than normal size
cigarette lighters which are smaller than vanagonian cigarette lighters.