Hi all....l had some change lying around and a penny fell into the lighter is well and stayed lodged there awhile till l got it out. After that, the lighter wo not work and l can not charge my cell phone inside my car!

Curiously, l can not fine the repair solution ANYWHERE in my new store-bought book (from Barnes and Noble) on how to repair most car problems......

Is this a fuse problem, as one friend suggested?

Regards - S.

This is a fuse,......the coin shorted between the power point(center) and the ground (outside ring)

Find the fuse box, If you don,t know which one get you a test light and you will find it , What you do with the test light turn on the switch (don,t crank ) turn on parking lights , Ground test light clamp it to some metal non painted and touch both sides of the fuses they should all light up when you come across one that don,t light up take it out and look at it, If it Is blown and replace it , Have some fuses with you. good luck

It could very well be a fuse problem as your friend suggested.
If you have an owners manual you should look that up.
If you do not have a manual, l will provide the link to download:

http://motorcraftservice.com/pubs/content/~WOWCON/~MUS~LEN/41/98conog1e.pdf

see pages 109-119

If you cannot download the manual from here, please email me & l can walk you through another way.

l hope this helps!

Yes, the coin did blow the fuse just replace fuse #14 with a 20 amp fuse.