Superb Elegance 2009. Both of my internal cigarette lighter sockets have no power. The one in the boot is fine. I have checked the fuse identified on the fuse list and it is OK. Any ideas?

Just how hard do you have to pull to remove a side light? Assuming it IS a straight push/pull fit?

In the Octavia the child lock button? disables the power sockets. I drove around for a long time before I found that out.

Probably the same in the Superb.

 

Scott  

Edited 14 February, 201412 yr by smc998

As far as I can see I only have the child lock setting on each rear door. Put both to "normal " but didn't make any difference. There is no reference to any safety interlock with child lock/cigarette lighter in the manual so I'm no further forward.

Many thanks for your answer.

I think it is the switch beside the electric window switches on the drivers door armrest he is talking about. It isolates the lighter sockets and stops the rear windows being opened when operated.
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Many thanks for your reply. Have tried the switch you mention, with the child locks deselected, and ----- no luck.

Had exactly the same problem and it didn't surprise the dealers. The fault was a wire that had detached on the rear seat lighter socket which blew the fuse immediately. When I bought the car at 4 months old they didn't work and there was no fuse in the holder. The dealer fixed it in 2 hours. The power point in the boot is on a separate circuit so worked fine.

All of the power sockets are permanently live in the Superb.  Which fuse did you check?  The one in the boot has its own fuse (dash board, assigned #26) and the front & rear lighter are on the same fuse (dash board, assigned #35).

 

It wouldn't be the first time that the fuse box layout and assignment in the manual is different to the layout and assignment of your actual fuse box, especially if RHD.

Hi,

 

This has just happened to me as well.  Fuse was fine but I replaced it anyway; also replaced the 25A one next to it.  Also tried the isolation switch in the driver's armrest. No joy.

 

Any new thoughts, anyone?

 

Cheers.

I've fixed it, but I'd value an opinion on whether I've done it safely!  The cigar lighter fuse location had been used by the guy who fitted my active subwoofer; he installed a 30A fuse and then piggy-backed a lead from one side of it to some location under the dash.  I was looking for a 25A fuse as per the manual, so was looking in the wrong place.  

 

Anyway, this 30A fuse had blown but was still able to feed the piggy-backed lead: sub-woofer still working, but no cigar lighters.  I've now put the "blown" fuse into a spare socket in the panel and the subwoofer continues to run; I've replaced the 30A fuse in its original location with a regulation 25A fuse and now the cigar lighters work.

 

As I say, fixed!  Was I OK, though, to plug the blown/piggy-backed fuse into a random spare socket?