tomjoycey

Hi,

Can anyone tell me where I will find the fuse for the boot comapartment cigarrette lighter on a 2000 A6 Avant Quattor please? I have checked the manual, the fuse pnale on the drivers door pillar and the front and centre sockets work. My towing lights take a feed from the socket and won't work either. G

Grateful if you can help.

Thanks

Tomjoycey

tomjoycey

[QUOTE=tomjoycey;24449610]Hi,

Thank you, this has been a great forum, I will go elsewhere to seek the answer,

Tom

4Driver4

U mad bro?

tomjoycey

Not mad, just slightly disappointed that no one offered any help or advice, but thanks for replying,

Regards

Tom

4Driver4

Could be that no one knew. I've been around a long time and never seen that question before.

tomjoycey

Oh, ok my apologies. It is strange as the other sockets work and I have checked for voltage and there is none suggesting the fuse has gone. The trailer lights are run from that circuit and they have stopped and a trailer specialist said find the fuse for the boot 12 volt socket and you will fix it. There is no mention of it on the fuse panel. I wondered if there was a hidden panel I wasn't aware of.

Thanks

GTA_Driver

Try pulling fuses one by one and check them, see if any are burnt. Not sure what else to suggest.

tenspeed

I don't know your A6 but generally, the cigarette lighter fuses are yellow 20 amp fuses in other cars. They are also located in the engine compartment fuse boxes.

The Audi might have them in a different location since some have a fuse panel and the battery in the trunk.

To check the fuses, you don't have to pull each one. Use a volt meter, put one lead on a good ground connection and put the other lead on the small metal tab on the top of the fuse.

Check both sides of the fuse. One side should be hot if power is present. The other side will be hot if the fuse is good. Some fuses are hot only when the key is on.

tomjoycey

Thank you, I will have a good look in the places described and thanks for the top on checking fuses, will let you know how I get on. Clearly not a straight forward one. Thanks

Jcamaro123

I believe it is a 15 amp (unless someone replaced it with a 20) but if your other cig lighter is working and your trailer lights (which are hooked to that lighter as you say) I would say that they didn't connect the wires very good - I would pull out the lighter itself and redo that connection (or take it back to whomever did it and tell them too)