 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | looove 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 04-16-2024 01:18 PM 0 Replies, 1,922 Views | |  |  |  | |  11-18-2007, 06:14 PM | #1 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London Posts: 16 |  electric plug thing..
eeeeer well heres a little story for you......
i was trying to plud in the adapter for my phone, and for some reason it wouldnt fit, so i looked inside and saw a penny.. it was jammed i couldnt take it out, but then eventually i did,, but the damn thing doesnt work anymore!!
why?? how can i fix it??
thanks.. |  |  | | 11-18-2007, 06:19 PM | #2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 |
Where was the penny?
Sounds like something is shorted. __________________ ...steven
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| | | | | 11-18-2007, 06:19 PM | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: state college, pa Posts: 3,431 |
In the lighter socket? It probably blew the fuse. __________________
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ZOMBIES. | | | | | 11-18-2007, 07:31 PM | #4 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 |
Hopefully it blew a fuse rather than cause a short somewhere else. Does everything else work? My lighter kept popping out too early before it even got hot enough to light a cigarette. It would jump out of the socket and fall onto the floorboard, almost caused me to wreck the first time it happened. Anyway, I tried to use a pencil to bend the tabs in. BAD idea, the pencil started smoking(not cigarettes, it caught on fire). __________________ 4 MORE YEARS BABY!!! | | | | | 11-18-2007, 07:37 PM | #5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SW Florida Posts: 4,275 |
lol __________________ 
Sean
1995 Active | | | | | 11-19-2007, 05:03 PM | #6 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Eugene Oregon Posts: 6,182 |
haha thats random i bet someone dropped that penny and was like
"sh***********t
well to late now whatever!" __________________
-Josh
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| | | | | 11-20-2007, 11:52 AM | #7 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London Posts: 16 |
hehe.. welllllll... i found another lighter socket in the boot, i tried that one and it doesnt work either.... so i guessing it might just be the fuse?? now.... who knows where the fuse is so i can give it a go..  | | | | | 11-20-2007, 12:13 PM | #8 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 188 |
You can find the fuse under the hood, you wil see a smoked fuse:-). | | | | | 11-20-2007, 12:40 PM | #9 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London Posts: 16 |
thanks for that.. you know i took my car in for a service a couple of weeks ago, when it came out the engine light was on, and it was the cam shaft sensors, so they fixed that and when it came out another light was on indicating a fault in the gearbox, this something to do with torque control now, and the car is being stupid, then this happened, and now the left side light isnt working, but its not the bulb.... gonna get the gear box fixed this week.... whyyy ohhh whyyy!?!? | | | | | 11-20-2007, 06:35 PM | #10 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: state college, pa Posts: 3,431 |
What kind of shop are you taking it to? Reputable? __________________
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ZOMBIES. | | | | | 11-20-2007, 06:57 PM | #11 | | NOBODY F's with the Jesus Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura California Posts: 7,824 |
Waaaaaiiiit a minute, they have pennies in London? I remember carrying a bunch of coins, but pennies  __________________ 4 MORE YEARS BABY!!! | | | | | 11-20-2007, 07:16 PM | #12 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 2,525 |
The english have been using the term penny for their coinage longer than the US has been a country, something like 750AD... | | | | | 11-20-2007, 11:34 PM | #13 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London Posts: 16 |
Quote: Originally Posted by aceyx  What kind of shop are you taking it to? Reputable? | well,, my family get all their cars done there, weve never had a problem before, for me it seems to be a strange coincidence or maybe they are doing something wrong without realising... i dont know..... i should take it to bmw so they give it to engineers that know it inside out, but who knows, that costs a bomb and those problems may have been inevitable.. yeah we have 1p and 2p coins in england.. | | | | | 11-21-2007, 02:51 PM | #14 | | Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London Posts: 16 |
hello!! the fuse isnt under the hood, the battery is in the back but its not there either, its not in the passengers side in the glove compartment.. the only place i think it could be is on the right in the drivers side, theres this thing but i dont have the balls to pull it out.. i dont want to break anything.. | | | | | 11-21-2007, 07:41 PM | #15 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: state college, pa Posts: 3,431 |
RTFM. __________________
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