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I did this mod a few weeks ago and only thought about posting them just now.
Being a non-smoker and not allowing anyone to smoke in my cars, the D22 having 2 ashtrays really bugged me as they are a waste of space. Well the D22's only got 1 outlet so I had to do something cos were going to Fraser in a few months and we also want to run a small fridge (6A) on the back seat, the GPS (1A)and a DVD player (1A)for the Kid. All up thats only 8A so here's what I did.
I removed the center dash fascia and found that the ashtrays are held in place by 4 screws. I removed them and used some 1mm aluminum plate that I had lying around and fabricated 2 angle brackets carefully shaped to fill in the holes left by the ashtrays and held in place by the ashtrays 4 screws . I went to Supercheap and brought 2 12V panel mount outlets. I then drilled & filed the plates to fit the outlets and painted them satin black then mounted them and the outlets to the Fascia. I dont plan to run anything that pulls too much current so I elected to power the outlets by piggybacking them off the original cig lighter. First I determined which of the pins for the 3 outlets were the Negative pins and I soldered a piece of 20 amp wire across all 3. I then spliced into the cigar lighters 12V supply wire and added 2 more plugs onto it. This way all 3 outlets are powered by the original 12V 15A supply. It means I'll need to be careful how much current I'll pull from all 3 but It also means it's easy to do and I like easy!!
All up this project took about 2 hours.
Being a non-smoker and not allowing anyone to smoke in my cars, the D22 having 2 ashtrays really bugged me as they are a waste of space. Well the D22's only got 1 outlet so I had to do something cos were going to Fraser in a few months and we also want to run a small fridge (6A) on the back seat, the GPS (1A)and a DVD player (1A)for the Kid. All up thats only 8A so here's what I did.
I removed the center dash fascia and found that the ashtrays are held in place by 4 screws. I removed them and used some 1mm aluminum plate that I had lying around and fabricated 2 angle brackets carefully shaped to fill in the holes left by the ashtrays and held in place by the ashtrays 4 screws . I went to Supercheap and brought 2 12V panel mount outlets. I then drilled & filed the plates to fit the outlets and painted them satin black then mounted them and the outlets to the Fascia. I dont plan to run anything that pulls too much current so I elected to power the outlets by piggybacking them off the original cig lighter. First I determined which of the pins for the 3 outlets were the Negative pins and I soldered a piece of 20 amp wire across all 3. I then spliced into the cigar lighters 12V supply wire and added 2 more plugs onto it. This way all 3 outlets are powered by the original 12V 15A supply. It means I'll need to be careful how much current I'll pull from all 3 but It also means it's easy to do and I like easy!!
All up this project took about 2 hours.
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