I know you can buy 4 way socket adapter that have 10a fuses but how does one go about making their own to hide away behind the dashboard?

Thinking of taping into the current cigarette wires or do you recommend another method?

Looks to power a phone charger and a GPS charger.

I'd be inclined to break into the cigar lighter feed with these snap on splices.

Then use a series of these spades for the multiway.

Maplins should hvae all those.

Paul

Personally I got another cigarette lighter female adapter wired it into the fuse box by the right of the driver, plugged my TTG 700 Feed into that, taped it all up and hid it within the fuse box area behind the cover. Found you can get two singles in there quite easily. Plus any issues with the leads you can just unplug and you don't need to hard wire in. Works well for me.

If you are just after a 2nd 12v socket rather than 4 i would put a fuse into the current feed to the lighter socket and then split that two ways with suitable cable. One into the curernt lighter and a second into another lighter or 12v socket in a correct place.

It shouldn't be difficult to cut a hole and mount it if you can find a suitable piece of trim and want to mount it this way.

Sounds like more of a permenant thing than just the convenience of using cigar lighter sockets... generally people just use those cos you can get splitters, whereas they end up being bulky. If the device isnt going to move, and it'll only be taken out when the car is replaced, I'll tend to wire stuff in directly, and not fuss wiht the crapness of cigarlighters.

Depends what you want from it though.

Thats for the info.

helpmedisappear - yeah, so ingenious, yet so inconvenient

My friends S80 had about four cigar lighter sockets distributed around the cockpit, typical Volvo!