Does anyone why the 12v car socket both the one in the armrest and the one below the console all of sudden stop working. I don't use it much, but I needed to put air in my tire this morning and none of the socket worked when I plug in the air compressor. I checked the owner's manual just incase if there is a switch that you can turn off, but didn't find anything. Any ideas will help. Thanks!

 

It might be the fuse.

 

Does anyone have a screen shot of the fuse diagram? Thanks

 

Look underneath the fuse cover. Should be a diagram there.

 

Owner's manual, pg 248.

 

I checked the fuses below the steering wheel and even took my dash apart to check to see if the plug was plugged in to the power outlet.

I still cannot get it to work though. The fuses I changed even though they were good, and the power outlet was plugged in the entire time.

Does anyone know what else could be causing this? Is there a fuse inside of the hood that also needs to be checked? I can't imagine what else it could be.

 

Here's the schematic diagram for 07/08.

There is a relay in the interior fuse box in addition to the fuse and there is another fuse in the engine bay fuse box.

3 fuses in total could cause your problem.

#9 in the cabin is the accessory fuse and would prevent power from making it to your accessory sockets.

#32 in the cabin is for power to the relay and if it blew would prevent the relay from ever energizing thus preventing power from ever making it to your accessory sockets.

#15 in the engine bay feeds power to your #9 fuse in the cabin.

If the accessory power socket relay went bad you would also have this problem.

See schematic.

I'm assuming your car starts, so #22 and #23 in the engine bay that are also part of the circuit are good, if either of them went the car wouldn't start.

 

Just as a sanity check, you do have the ignition in the ACC or ON position - right?

 

I checked number #15 in the engine bay and it was good, but I replaced it anyway. Unfortunately it is still not working. So far I've replaced all three of the fuses that you said.

Is there anything else that I'm missing?

Haha, yes I do make sure that the ignition is on the ON position.

 

Check whatever it is you are plugging into the outlet; turn the plug a little bit to make sure the contacts on the plug are touching the outlet walls.

Better yet, get a GPS or cell phone charger that works in another vehicle and plug it into the outlet to see if that device works.

G/L.

 

If you have a DMM you can measure voltage on the accessory socket to see if it's present.

Or a test light, clip it to ground and then probe the center terminal of an accessory socket.

If it lights power is present, if not then something is wrong.


There's a relay in the interior fuse panel, it may be bad or may have come loose.

 

Both outlets in my 05 RL suddenly stopped working. Sure enough it was a blown fuse (fuse #9, 20A, drivers side interior). Works fine now after changing fuse. (Fuse box in engine compartment has a fuse puller tool).

 

Welp, ya searched!

 

My yellow fuse #9, 20A, drivers side interior in engine compartment keeps blowing. Changed it 3 times and it still keeps blowing. Any ideas as to what's causing it?

 

 

can you show me the relay loca in 09 base model? I don’t know which relay to test