[SuicideHz]

My cigarette lighter, outdoor temp guage and PRNDL lights went out.



Fuse #11 is a 15A fuse and I found it blown. Put another in. Blew it too. Nothing recent added to car and it's bugging me.



Anyone know of any common gremlins here?

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[Darryl]

Pull the cig lighter out of the socket and then replace the fuse with the lighter out. There must be something shorted causing the fuse to blow. I can't seem to locate a fuse table in any of my 968 stuff, but fuse 11 on late model 944 (which was blown when I got it) caused the ineterior lights, cig lighter and clock among other things to stop working. The clock on the 944 is in the same location as the outdoor temp on the 968.

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[Kim]

You might also check the little light that lights up the ashtray. Take the ashtray out and you will see it just in front to the centre console. On my car it got squeezed a bit and grounded and I seem to recall that this blew out the fuse for all the stuff that you mention.

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[SuicideHz]

[quote name='Kim' date='Sep 20 2006, 06:38 PM']You might also check the little light that lights up the ashtray.  Take the ashtray out and you will see it just in front to the centre console. On my car it got squeezed a bit and grounded and I seem to recall that this blew out the fuse for all the stuff that you mention.

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I did have a passenger in the car the other day playing around in the ashtray bitching about the fact that I had stuffed paper in there. I'll empty it and check.



But, the clock is stopped dead at the approximate time I may have tried using the cigarette lighter one morning...



Darryl- I'm not sure what you are getting at. I can name at least 4 things that don't work because of this fuse. I just want to know why it's blowing. Maybe you are trying to give me more places to look?

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[Darryl]

[quote name='SuicideHz' date='Sep 21 2006, 09:34 AM']I did have a passenger in the car the other day playing around in the ashtray bitching about the fact that I had stuffed paper in there.  I'll empty it and check.



But, the clock is stopped dead at the approximate time I may have tried using the cigarette lighter one morning...



Darryl- I'm not sure what you are getting at.  I can name at least 4 things that don't work because of this fuse.  I just want to know why it's blowing.  Maybe you are trying to give me more places to look?

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Yes, correct. The fuse chart should give you a list of things to check. It helped me tremendously when I blew the fuse and could figure out which fuse it was based on all the stuff that wasn't working. I got lucky and replaced the fuse and it didn't blow!! I just noticed the clock stopped one day and then the rear hatch wouldn't pop. As mentioned, there has to be something shorted causing a current overload. Usually when light bulbs blow, they open, not short, but I guess it's electrically possible that it melted closed and is shorted, so I'd check all bulbs on this circuit. Remember, the posted chart is for 944, so it may not correlate 100% for the 968.



- Darryl

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[Nenehubert]

Umm, I have a quick question. Is light behind the temp gauge easily accessible? Mine blew.

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[Anchorman]

It depends on how you define "easily". You have to remove the dash trim piece that's between the airbag and the glove box. That means that the little hose that connects to the plastic "grill" - which is the interior temperature sensor - will be disconnected. Once you deal with the bulb - which I found difficult to remove but it does, in fact, twist out - (it's a bulb that I could only get it from Porsche) then the trick is to get that hose reconnected. The only way I could find to do that was to remove the glove box, otherwise there's no apparent access. "Lucky" for me, I did this bulb replacement as part of replacing the entire dashboard, so the glove box had to come out anyway.

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[Kim]

(it's a bulb that I could only get it from Porsche) - part number 94464190000. Archorman is right - only from Porsche.

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