Electrical Power Outlet quit working- fuze replaced, no joy

[DBrundage]

The electrical power outlet just below the ash tray quit working. I use it to charge my phone, mostly. The one in the fold down console works fine. Fuse looked good but replaced it anyway and still doesn't work.

Any ideas?

 

[jakprince]

What year truck is it?

 

[Crunch]

The electrical power outlet just below the ash tray quit working. I use it to charge my phone, mostly. The one in the fold down console works fine. Fuse looked good but replaced it anyway and still doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Did you actually test it with a meter, or what you had plugged into it? I've found that sometimes the connection is bad, and removing and reseating the plug helps. Sometimes just twisting the plug fixes it. I run a "Y" splitter out of my unswitched power so I can power a CB and navigational unit. If they are both out I know it's the main plug.

 

[monkeyman]

I will tell you that on my 2002 same thing happened, Power Outlet itself was bad, got it at dealer.
Rick

 

[DBrundage]

Electrical Power Outlet quit working

Thanks.

My truck is a 2003. Yes, I did check it with a multi-meter. Shows open on the ohm meter and dead for voltage. I wonder if it is a physical break or simply a bad outlet like Monkeyman said. How hard is it to get the panel apart to change the outlet?

 

[monkeyman]

Mine came out from the front, they show a special tool but I used a snap ring pliers,the new one just snaps in.
Rick

 

[DBrundage]

Replaced the power outlet today. It does indeed just pop out- thanks Rick. It has a cannon plug on the back. It is cheaply made and the back rivet on my was loose, causing the electrical contact to be incomplete. New one works just fine.
Donald

 

[monkeyman]

My pleasure I agree made like crap!
Rick

 

[Jim Brewer]

I was getting intermittent connection with the passenger side power outlet and just replaced it today. The part was something like $29 at the stea1er.

To remove the bad one, I twisted it in the dash until one of the clips on the bezel popped out through a slot in the dash hole. Then I compressed the other clip on the bezel and it all came out of the dash.

The socket from the stea1er didn't include the bezel, which was held onto the socket with two seemingly uncompressable tabs. So I took some channel locks and just bend the bad socket together to release the tabs and the bezel came off undamaged. The bezel snapped onto the new socket and that assembly snapped into the dash easily.