Cig. lighter cord does not work in my car???

I bought a Roadmate 850 recently. I have a 1988 model Toyota. At first
it appeared I had gotten a bad cig. lighter DC adapter from Magellan.
The cars' lighter works fine. The adapter cord appeared to plug in
fine, but was inop. I checked it with a DC bench power supply and
found that it does put out 5 volts. It is not making connection to the
receptacle.
Someone told me that the cig. lighter receptacle design has changed in
recent years. It looks like a major job to pull out the current
receptacle/outlet and change to some other one. Is there some sort of
an adapter made for this problem?

correction: its a magellan 800, not 850.


wrote:

I bought a generic cellular phone charger which had a sleeve which fit into
a larger cigarette lighter socket. The cars I used did not need it. You
might be able to find one of those and use the sleeve part to make your plug
fit in the larger socket of your car.


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Earl F. Parrish

Well, that sleeve is the adapter I need apparently. Where to find one?

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:54:02 GMT, "Earl F. Parrish"

geronimo wrote:

If that is what I think it is, it is a thin plastic sleeve with a slit
in one side that can slide up over the contacts and will stay in place
by itself to make the body of the plug larger to better fit the socket.
The contacts on that type have enough flexibility to make contact in
either the larger or smaller sockets.

So if you can piece of plastic tubing about the right size you may be
able to make one.

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)