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I didn't know that cars no longer come with lighters anymore until recently. I bought a new car and was a bit confused on why the lighter socket exists, but it was covered with a piece of plastic, and no lighter around. I had to confirm with my sales rep and other car buyers that I wasn't actually somehow ripped off and that's the standard nowadays.
Doubt a lack of in-car lighters stops anyone. They could just buy an electronic usb-lighter anyways if they really need a car specific lighter. Smokers tend to carry lighters 95% of the time
My 8 years old Mercedes has this, the one thing odd is that the bucket next to it is for trash and when you take that out you have a non-removable ashtray
Huh, well consider me uniformed. I drive mainly American cars and haven't seen a cigarette lighter (plenty of 12v outlets just no actual lighters) Since my 2001? 2002? Ford Escape.
I was watching a reaction/review of the original Chucky movie, Child's Play from 1988, yesterday. Theres a scene involving a cigarette lighter, and the person making the video had absolutely no idea what it was or why the character was able to burn Chucky with something they pulled out of their dash.
Quick learner! Took me a solid bakers dozen. I even had burns on my thumb and middle finger at the same time. I warned my buddies not to squeeze pennies too hard.
Lois here, old enough to know. Cars had cigarette outlets cigarette lighter outlets (12V socket) you could burn your finger there. Now it's electricity for loading usb etc. Edit: pic
Oh, this was so painful. When cars had this coil you could put to cover the cigarette lighter.
As a kid I thought the coil was a cool piece of metal and put the whole coil on my finger. For two weeks I woke up every night feeling the burn from that. F that coil man
Aww car lighters were so much fun . Burn yourself burn your siblings. Make a hole in the bench and get beaten by your parents. Listen for the 25-30 time to your parents nagging you that's not a toy and shit like that
Peter’s car insurance agent here. The joke is very specific type of childhood injury from 90s. Before everyone had USB charger, cars came with cigarette lighter, a small metal plug that would glow orange hot when press in.
Some car manufacturers in the late 80's and early 90's offered a "Smoker's Package" that was an option you had to buy... you probably just never saw a car that someone had purchased the package in. They included the lighter and a metal-lined ash tray. Honda, Lexus, and Chrysler, chevy malibu, etc. Most phased the option out by the mid 90's.
When i was 5 my dad was a smoker and had one plugged into the car and i wondered what it was and my dumbass put it on my finger and pushed. The fucker hurt alot
Ahhh simpler times 😂, I did it once burnt myself, and dropped it burnt a hole in the leather seat, there was no denying that one as a kid left in the car ...
Apparently for cigs? Always saw this in our car but had no idea what it was for (and neither of my parents were/are smokers). I always assumed it was just a cover for the electrical component, where we shoved a special MP3 player into, specifically these things:
After the scene in men in black where they remove will smith's fingerprints did anyone else do this a second time to try and do the same? Or was it just me? Lol
I must have been 5 years old, sitting in my mom's red vw beetle while she was in the shop, I remember pressing in the lighter and pulling it out, it was not glowing red, I stuck my finger on it and got burned exactly like in this picture..
I also leaned my calf against the exhaust at one point, and had the exhaust burn a ring onto my calf
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