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Rekna · 08-02-2009, 10:33 AM

My wife was recently pulling her car charger out of the accessory outlet in her 2005 Mitsubishi outlander when the charger fell apart inside of the outlet. She removed the parts from the outlet but the outlet no longer works. I decided to try and fix it myself. I removed the panel that holds the accessory handle in place and made sure everything is still connected correctly and it is. I then used a multimeter to test the two wires connecting to the outlet to check for resistance (short the wires together using the multimeter). There was no resistance. I then figured it must be the fuse, so I located the fuse box and found the cigarette lighter fuse. I pulled out the fuse and checked it with a multimeter for resistance. The multimeter showed the fuse had resistance meaning the fuse was not blown.

Anyone have any idea what else might be causing the problem?

---------- Post added at 06:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:12 PM ----------

Both the front outlet and the rear outlet do not work. I have checked all fuses and they are all fine. Somewhere the circuit is broken but I don't know where.

I noticed on the fuse box there are little black boxes plugged into the fuse box that don't appear to be fuses. These are larger (maybe a half inch squared) and are on the left side of the fuse box panel. What are these?

08-02-2009, 10:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
Rekna Junkie	Accessory Outlet Problems My wife was recently pulling her car charger out of the accessory outlet in her 2005 Mitsubishi outlander when the charger fell apart inside of the outlet. She removed the parts from the outlet but the outlet no longer works. I decided to try and fix it myself. I removed the panel that holds the accessory handle in place and made sure everything is still connected correctly and it is. I then used a multimeter to test the two wires connecting to the outlet to check for resistance (short the wires together using the multimeter). There was no resistance. I then figured it must be the fuse, so I located the fuse box and found the cigarette lighter fuse. I pulled out the fuse and checked it with a multimeter for resistance. The multimeter showed the fuse had resistance meaning the fuse was not blown. Anyone have any idea what else might be causing the problem? ---------- Post added at 06:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:12 PM ---------- Both the front outlet and the rear outlet do not work. I have checked all fuses and they are all fine. Somewhere the circuit is broken but I don't know where. I noticed on the fuse box there are little black boxes plugged into the fuse box that don't appear to be fuses. These are larger (maybe a half inch squared) and are on the left side of the fuse box panel. What are these?