hey gang, i've had my car for just over two weeks now and yesterday upon plugging my cell phone charger in, I noticed that the accessory power adapter plugs no longer worked...after popping open the fuse box and checking, sure enough the fuse had blown...has anyone else had issues with a fuse blowing so soon after ownership begins? I realize that it's just a fuse and fuses blow, but it seems pretty early for something like this to take place...TIA

 

I would check to see if there's anything inside the socket to short out the circuit.

 

If my memory serves my correctly, all the cases here with blown accessory fuses are due to foreign objects in the socket.

 

ok, so i found a penny in my socket! why does everyone keep bringing that up???

 

I had that happen to me once. That was because of cheap car chargers. When plugged the same charger in my friends car, his phone blew up. So I am guessing that it was the charger. Blew up the fus on mine, and phone in my friends car

 

it's a Verizon brand car charger for a Treo 700...I would think i should not have to go buy the Palm brand and that the Verizon branded one would be fine, but I'll just test it out...there was nothing else in either socket at the time, so i'll have to do some testing to see what caused the short...bought some fuses and replaced the blown fuse on my way back from lunch, so when i leave work i'll check it out...

 

remember you have two sockets running off the same line/fuse. check them both.

 

wow... i am not the only... i WAS LIKE W T F....... SAME PROBLEM WITH ME MAN.

two chargers, one is for Treo 700W and another one is for i870... A&&hole dealer says it's the charger. I tried both of them in other cars and they work fine.... my car is 7 months old.

both sockets dont work.

why me? i need my phone charged all the time, stupid dealer doesn't get it!!!! ahhhhh

 

i have an inline filter connected to my nav/dvd cnonverter box and my dvd player on the front socket (spliced in) and my cell phone charger (treo 650) and ipod charger on the back socket all at the same time (chargers are both always plugged in on a splitter). no problems. i use the sprint charger also.

 

I had my car for about two weeks as well when my 12v went out. I took the car in for service. I happen to be friends with a few of the service guys at the local dealership here. The first thing they said to me when i mentioned the fuses was Verizon! They said that there is something about the TSX and the Verizon car chargers that do not mix. I was told that probably 95% of the fuses blown on the TSX is from the verizon charger. I don't know how much truth this holds but thought I would share. And hey if nothing else I got a free wash and vacuum lol!

 

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY MY ACURA DEALER AS WELL.

I double checked it myself. only verizon charger blows....

i am stuck with a bad charger... I hope verizon burns in hell....

 

mine did the saem thing. turn out the phone charger tip came loose and fell in, shorting it out. I do wich acura had not put slots in the bottom, the tip fell all the way in and is gone. ARRGh.. another .005 ounces of weight to hurt my acceleration.. LOL

 

consider yourself lucky you have an acura. my mothers Grand am had a penny incident many years ago and when a new fuse was put in the electronic odometer magically changed form 27K miles to 107K !!!! the Dip%&its at pontiac changed the speedo and then the car had 0 miles. i know blaphemy to talk about that here.

maybe you charges draws too much power if its not a foreign object.

 

other charger works fine.... it's def the Verizon Charger