charging from lighter socket

Mate I wouldn't use the cigarette lighter for nothing.

My wife had her phone charger in the cigarete lighter socket in me Camry, I started the car pulled the plug out the socket backed out the driveway and drove 10 metres before I smelt smoke, I shut the engine off! ran to the garage to get a spanner to cut the battery power within 40 seconds.

And in that time the wiring loome was rooted I re wired wired a lot my self then another 800 bucks form the local auto sparky to fix other little shorts through out the wiring loome i couldn't track down.

All because the lighter socket fell apart, shorted then the fuse only melted but didn't blow, apparently a fairly common Toyota issue.

Cheers

what i was hoping to achieve was a trickle charge into spare battery ---would definately want another fuse in line

" then the fuse only melted but didn't blow, apparently a fairly common Toyota issue. "

Then it's not of merchantable quality - I'd put in a written complaint to Dept of Fair Trading - this is not limited to the warranty period.

Actually your probably right, but if I remember it was a cheap no name spade fuse that did not blow. So it would of ended up my bad I think. But then again the cigarette lighter should not have fallen apart either.

thanks for info will look at them.
i have instead of a cig lighter holder in another place in van a 2 pin plug that i use, i think safer to connect to-----same thing only different lol

agree with comments --- i use a 2 pin connection with in line fuse for extras