{"id":798,"date":"2021-10-17T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=798"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:25:23","slug":"dummy-cigarette-lighter-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/dummy-cigarette-lighter-element\/","title":{"rendered":"Dummy Cigarette Lighter Element"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I had the center of the dash apart to fix the heater controls, I also replaced the cigarette lighter socket.\u00a0 I don’t smoke, but I wanted the socket to work so I could charge my phone, or run a GPS.<\/p>\n

The lighter element was rusted into the old socket, so when I pulled on the chrome knob, it pulled off of the rest of the lighter.\u00a0 I didn’t want to put the old rusty element in my nice new lighter socket, so I made a dummy one to hold the chrome knob so nothing looked like it was missing.\u00a0 I created a 3-D printer design for this, which I uploaded to Thingiverse.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:5136514<\/p>\n

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The final photo shows it in the dash, and the flash managed to highlight all of the dirt and scratches on the dashboard.\u00a0 It looks better in person.<\/p>\n

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When I had the center of the dash apart to fix the heater controls, I also replaced the cigarette lighter socket.\u00a0 I don’t smoke, but I wanted the socket to work so I could charge my phone, or run a GPS. The lighter element was rusted into the old socket, so when I pulled on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro","category-interior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}