If you don't use it, or only use it as a power supply connection, please test your cigarette lighter for "length of flight" and "distance traveled" ....
But do it when your leg isn't near the (potential) trajectory.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
wow, a hot cigarette lighter - maybe John Edwards will take the case.
2 posted on
08/07/2004 7:39:04 PM PDT by
oceanview
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
HEY!!! I have a Ford Focus and mine does that too!! I thought it was a freak thing with mine, but I have learned to hold the lighter when I push it in to catch it.
Wow.
3 posted on
08/07/2004 7:39:59 PM PDT by
sandbar
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
...please test your cigarette lighter for "length of flight" and "distance traveled"...LOL
6 posted on
08/07/2004 7:45:39 PM PDT by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
yeah, thats it, recall the car due to a faulty lighter.....
7 posted on
08/07/2004 7:46:29 PM PDT by
TaxPayer2000
(The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Owned a Focus for 3 years- no problems here.
9 posted on
08/07/2004 7:48:18 PM PDT by
lawgirl
(is RNC bound! W here I come!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
My dad used to have a Chrysler that did that, quite the adventure
12 posted on
08/07/2004 7:54:53 PM PDT by
UB355
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Hey...I rented the same model car...and it did the same thing. It freaked me out. I was trying to light a cigar (while driving), but my lighter was out of fluid. So, I pushed this little lighter in and BOINK! That sucker shot right out.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
So, you have discovered ANOTHER reason why smoking is dangerous to your health. Hmmmmmmmm?
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
This is not a case of blaming the lighter for a burn from other causes is it?
18 posted on
08/07/2004 8:16:39 PM PDT by
BJungNan
(Stop Spam - Do NOT buy from junk email.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Light your cigarette off the carpet...problem solved. Next.
20 posted on
08/07/2004 8:24:21 PM PDT by
reagan_fanatic
(No animals have been hurt in the making of this tag line)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
This a Ford product so you should have expected this. Your fault.
21 posted on
08/07/2004 8:27:29 PM PDT by
Arkinsaw
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Best advice: give up smoking.
22 posted on
08/07/2004 8:32:55 PM PDT by
Tall_Texan
(John Edwards - the political embodiment of breast implants.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
It is the Chinese manufactured lighter plug. The quality testing on their springs has been found wanting. There have been some tragic pogo-stick accidents as well.
24 posted on
08/07/2004 8:55:11 PM PDT by
Ghengis
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I had to think back, because it's been quite a while since I got a Focus for a rental, and about as long since they accidentally left the cigarette lighter in the car...
It was a 2003 white Ford Focus; used the lighter only twice, both times it went shooting out about 18 inches. Both times, luckily, I wasn't on the road at the time, and was able to get it rather quickly.
Most of the cars I've rented in the last two years don't even have a 'cigarette lighter', only a cover for 'power port' or whatever the particular manufacturer wishes to describe it as.
26 posted on
08/07/2004 9:17:36 PM PDT by
kingu
(Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
A hot lighter in the lap?
Now that would RElly be "driving while distracted!"
27 posted on
08/08/2004 2:10:34 AM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
28 posted on
08/08/2004 5:45:04 AM PDT by
Conspiracy Guy
(They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
To: mhking
Thought I'd a fire under your "Just damn" consideration.
29 posted on
08/08/2004 5:14:26 PM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly ... But Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS press corpse lies every day.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
30 posted on
08/09/2004 5:01:18 PM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly ... But Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS press corpse lies every day.)
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