12v Cigarette Lighter Wire Color

[KenTK808]

I just broke my multimeter and I need to know which wires on the center console cigarette lighter is the + one. I think its the white wire. I'm using it as the power to a switch I'm using for fog lights.

Your help is greatly appreciated

[greencounty]

The cigarette lighter socket in the console has an all white wire for the +12V and the one in the glove compartment is white w/a black stripe.

[canyons]

confirmed, the glove box lighter socket has +12v switched accessory power on the white wire w/black stripe.


I needed accessory power in the engine compartment, and it was fairly easy to vampire tap this wire and run a shunt wire through the nearby rubber grommet using a coat hanger. If you try this, i recommend you strip the insulation from the factory wire before applying the vampire tap. The factory wire coating is quite tough and the vampire tap may not puncture it.

Apologies for resurrecting a dead thread.