I have an '03 Z touring with about 35kmi on it, i got it used 2 months ago with 30kmi, in excellent shape.

I just bought a car charger for my verizon chocolate the other day...plug it into my passenger side cig lighter outlet mounted behind the passenger seat, and it doesn't work. I had ciruit city test the car charger unit itself in the store, and it is functional. So the problem is with the Z:

Am I missing something simple here? like a switch to "activate" the outlet? Is there another outlet in the Z better suited for this application? Or do I have a broken outlet?

I searched for an hour or so on this sight, and even cracked open my owners manual, with no results.

 

blown fuse?

 

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Had same problem.

 

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It is not powered when the car is off, do you have the key turned in the ignition to at least the accessories position?

Chris

 

Car was powered on. If it is not a blown fuse, than I suppose the previous owner could have tampered with the wiring to add mods, hardwire a radar detector, but given the condition of the car that is unlikely.


So the 03 Z's only have that one outlet? ( my jeep had 2: one 12v all the time-even when car was off, and the other was a 12v accessory only when car was on, hence my confusion)

 

I have the same crappy phone and charger. I also have an 03 with a V1 hardwired on the same circuit as the cig lighter. While I only need to charge my phone maybe once every six months, I decided to one day and blew the fuse on the circuit. I ended up replacing it with a heavier fuse and it worked fine.

I think to get it to work I had to put the charger in and rotate it until I saw the light come on. The charger from verizon is a pos (like the phone) and it only makes contact at a certain angle.