Iv had the intention of chaning most of my interior lights from the shocking green to a nice blue so with things already in the pipe line i decided id do the cigarette lighter first.
Firstly onto ebay to find one in blue
having previously removed the ashtry to inspect th cigarette lighter there is 2 orange connectors one to power the cig lighters 12v and a seperate connector to power the bulb.
when fitting the blue surround has to go in first followed by the lighter barrel. the portion of the blue surround that holds the bulb should be hard up against the clear plastic of the ashtry (final pic will make sense)
knowing this i seperated the surround from the barrel. i used an awl to prise away the two clips on the surround from inside the barrel and then prised it further with a butter knife
you can replace the clear bulb and it will be good enough but i wanted it to really stand out so i swapped mine for LED bulb again from ebay
when it came to seperating the old cigarette light from the ashtray IT WAS NOT EASY and i did some rather unsavoury things to get it off! luckily no injury was caused. on removal i noticed that there was a size difference
this wasnt so drastic that the new one wouldnt fit i just applied 2 small dots of good glue when fit to stop it moving in the recess.
the red and black wires need to have connectors attached the red came pre done but the black needed one so i did this with left overs from when i did the auto-fold mod.
when fitting back in the car the blue surround goes first then insert the barrel and then attach the connectors underneath with the black wire screwed into the bottom
and then she's all done
iv used cheap parts at my own peril, if the barrels had been the same size id of stuck with the original ford item but unfortunately i couldnt i may change at a later date for peace of mine if i can find a correct size surround in blue.
Firstly onto ebay to find one in blue
having previously removed the ashtry to inspect th cigarette lighter there is 2 orange connectors one to power the cig lighters 12v and a seperate connector to power the bulb.
when fitting the blue surround has to go in first followed by the lighter barrel. the portion of the blue surround that holds the bulb should be hard up against the clear plastic of the ashtry (final pic will make sense)
knowing this i seperated the surround from the barrel. i used an awl to prise away the two clips on the surround from inside the barrel and then prised it further with a butter knife
you can replace the clear bulb and it will be good enough but i wanted it to really stand out so i swapped mine for LED bulb again from ebay
when it came to seperating the old cigarette light from the ashtray IT WAS NOT EASY and i did some rather unsavoury things to get it off! luckily no injury was caused. on removal i noticed that there was a size difference
this wasnt so drastic that the new one wouldnt fit i just applied 2 small dots of good glue when fit to stop it moving in the recess.
the red and black wires need to have connectors attached the red came pre done but the black needed one so i did this with left overs from when i did the auto-fold mod.
when fitting back in the car the blue surround goes first then insert the barrel and then attach the connectors underneath with the black wire screwed into the bottom
and then she's all done
iv used cheap parts at my own peril, if the barrels had been the same size id of stuck with the original ford item but unfortunately i couldnt i may change at a later date for peace of mine if i can find a correct size surround in blue.