Help, anybody know what this is?

[damronjr]

Anybody know what the small clip with the green wire near the shift display at the bottom of the pic attached to the harness that goes into the lighter and home power adapter is? Right now my dome light, door blinker, and reading lamps don't work, so I think this might have something to do with it, but as you can see, I took my dash completely apart and couldn't find where this connector hooks up in the car.

[kevera]

This one,

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[northvibe]

I think thats the built in cable for the electric supercharger.....

[ColonelPanic]

It's green, right? The positive voltage for instrument panel illumination is a green wire, although I can't remember if it had a stripe or not. Check to see if that wire matches color with one of the other switches that light up (such as rear defrost or hazard.) If it is lighting, it doesn't go into the inverter does it? Or clip to the other side of the lighter socket for the LED that lights the ring? Or go to your electric supercharger like northvibe said?

[RIT]

Is there a light done there?I couldn;t find it in the Factory Service Manual.Thelight would need both a positive and negative, so I really don't know. Sorry.

[damronjr]

Yes, the one circled is the 1 I am referring to. It has 2 wires, 1 green, the other white. As far as I know everything on the car has seemed to work so far minus what I listed above. I looked all over behind the dash in that area (the wires are short, so it can't go far either) but couldn't find any open plugs missing clips. It is kind of hard to see back in there though. It doesn't go into the invertor or lighter, 1 single harness goes into that area for both of those, and that opening on the back of that area that looks like a plug is not, it's just a plastic opening with no terminals or anything. All the dash lights are working fine as well. I am thinking MAYBE it was something for the radio, but it looks to be coming from a stock harness like it was there from the factory.

[ragingfish]

I believe it activates the AC compressor when you engage either defrost mode.

[NascarXprt]

No.Jason it is for the Cigarette lighter light, i beleive.it does not plug into anything that you have, i have the same thing.

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by NascarXprt »No.Jason it is for the Cigarette lighter light, i beleive.it does not plug into anything that you have, i have the same thing.Huh, the cig lighter works right now and it (that green/white wire plug) is not plugged in. The off-white funky shaped plug goes to the cig lighter as you can see in the pic. Are you saying yours is just dangling back there, too? If so, then why the hell is all my **** jacked up right now?!?!?

[joatmon]

I'd say it is not the cigarette lighter power, but it is the cigarette lighter backlight illumination power. But I'd have to take mine apart to be sure.In ragingfish's write up of how to remove that center console http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=5940 he posted this picture:did you check your dome fuse?

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »I'd say it is not the cigarette lighter power, but it is the cigarette lighter backlight illumination power. But I'd have to take mine apart to be sure.In ragingfish's write up of how to remove that center console http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=5940 he posted this picture:did you check your dome fuse?Thanks!!!! Looks like it's time to take the dash apart again! But if that is the case, I'm wondering why everything else is screwed up! Could the problems all be tied into the radio somehow?!? Guess I won't know until I get it installed!

[ColonelPanic]

I don't think any other problems could be attributed to that wiring being disconnected. All that thing does is provides power for only the lighting for the cigarette lighter, nothing else really cares whether it is connected or not. The only negative not having that connected would be that you won't have that nice backlit ring around the lighter at night.

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »I don't think any other problems could be attributed to that wiring being disconnected. All that thing does is provides power for only the lighting for the cigarette lighter, nothing else really cares whether it is connected or not. The only negative not having that connected would be that you won't have that nice backlit ring around the lighter at night.As far as that goes, I destroyed the dash again today and still couldn't find where that clip goes. There were no adapters on the cig lighter that weren't used, and none anywhere else I could find. My bro-in-law thinks it was never used. Kind of hard to believe, but if someone does know where it goes (MIKE - aka RAGINGFISH!) fell free to let me know and post some pics!

[kevera]

Did that green ring around the lighter ever light up.Because when I installed my gauges,I tapped into that connector so the gauges were controlled by the dimmer.

[zionzr2]

My vibe does not have the green halo for the cig. lighter outlet.

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »My vibe does not have the green halo for the cig. lighter outlet.I don't think mine ever did either.Quote, originally posted by kevera »Did that green ring around the lighter ever light up.Because when I installed my gauges,I tapped into that connector so the gauges were controlled by the dimmer.Was that connector just dangling back there when you tapped into it, or was it connected somewhere?

[dianebrat]

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »My vibe does not have the green halo for the cig. lighter outlet.I have a hunch.. could it be that you only get the lighter lamp if you get the smokers package with the cigarette lighter as opposed to those of us that just have it as a "power outlet"?

[WaveAction]

im gonna say its a....wire..with a thing a majigger at the end..

[ColonelPanic]

Quote, originally posted by dianebrat »I have a hunch.. could it be that you only get the lighter lamp if you get the smokers package with the cigarette lighter as opposed to those of us that just have it as a "power outlet"?Good call! Damron, does your lighter have the flip-down cover thingy on it and it didn't come with the actual cigarette lighter piece? If you just got the power outlet and not the lighter, I can see them still using the same wiring harness to save costs. So the wire could have been hanging out all this time being unused...

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »Good call! Damron, does your lighter have the flip-down cover thingy on it and it didn't come with the actual cigarette lighter piece? If you just got the power outlet and not the lighter, I can see them still using the same wiring harness to save costs. So the wire could have been hanging out all this time being unused...I'm thinking this is correct as I did not get the smokers package!

[kevera]

Colonel is right,I have the smokers package with that connector used to power that Halo around the cig lighter.So,you don't have to worry about that connector then,it's not used.

[joatmon]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »did you check your dome fuse?was it the dome fuse that the shop replaced

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »was it the dome fuse that the shop replacedI'm assuming, they didn't specify, just said they found a fuse somewhere that was blown (15A) so they replaced it.

[smack31]

Hey everyone... I JUST noticed that my cigarette lighter ring is lit up. I'm not sure its ever been lit up before. (Could be that I never noticed?) I do not have a cigarette lighter attachment (its just a hole!) and was wondering if the ring lit up around it is supposed to be lit up or if by chance something was pushed in there to activate it. A response would be much appreciated!!!!