Bongo Fury

Can anybody tell me if the rear ciggy lighter can be made to work with the ignition off

Mine is wired to my leisure battery

I rewired my blinds, radio and ciggy lighters so they are always available. Cant remember the details but I did put them on here. I think the info came from Pippin originally but if I find the post I'll send a link.

Word or warning, the wire used by Mazda for the socket is really thin (on mine at least), I only use it for a GPS but if I wanted something heavy duty (fridge or inverter etc) I'd think seriously about putting in something more robust.

Details of rewiring fusebox, compliments of Pippin:-

Look at the fuse board by the drivers right knee.
Remove the fixing screws and wiggle it forwards so that the rear is visible.

Counting from top left to right the numbering goes 1 to 8.

Fuses 1 to 5 are fed by a thick white/red from fuse BTN under the bonnet, which is always live.
(the fuse, silly, not the bonnet!)

Fuses 6,7,8 are fed only when the ignition is on via the thick red/black wire.
6&7 are curtains L&R, 8 is cigarlighter & mirrors.

1] If you do not have a secondary battery:

You can either select just the cigarlighter/mirrors or probably easier and handier select those and the curtains so that you can operate them without the ignition on.

Cut the thick red/black wire going in a couple of inches from the rear of the fuseholder for 6,7,8. Insulate the end that comes out of the loom.
Use a short length of similarly sized wire to extend the end going into 6,7,8 and tap it into the thick white/red that feeds fuses 1-5.

If you want to select just fuse 8 for the cigarlighter/mirrors then you would have to identify the blue wire coming out of fuse 8, cut that and insulate the end coming out of the fuse 8. The blue wire going into the loom would then need an in-line 15A fuse fitting and then tapping onto the aforementioned thick white/red that feeds fuses 1-5.

2] If you have a secondary battery you may wish to feed things from that rather than from the engine battery.

The instructions above are modified only by disregarding tapping anything into the aforementioned thick white/red that feeds fuses 1-5.
Instead you would need to connect it/them into an appropriately fused wire connected to the secondary battery.

While you are at it you could also feed all the internal vehicle lighting from that source as well.
To do so, cut the blue/red wire coming out of fuse 1 and insulate the end coming out of the fuse. Fit an appropriate 10A inline fuseholder to the end disappearing into the loom and connect it to the secondary battery.

Thanks for the info will print it out ,sounds easy well nearly.

vanvliet wrote:Mine is wired to my leisure battery

You got your relay yet VV??????

Dandy I need to ring you The relays are in stock in Edinburgh and I will pick one up when i nip across .The builders arrived so i am a little preoccupied - laying foundations

I wired mine into the rear courtasy (spelling) light. The one activated by the tail gate. It has a permanant live feed. Not the thickest wire but fine for running the waterpump for the sink unit. Would'nt plug a fridge/coolbox into it though.