Ok so I have a base model 1986 Camaro. This morning when I turned it on the cigarette lighter sparked and my radio turned off. I have a kenwood radio that's wired to the original harness, and I checked the one fuse for the radio and theres a 15 in it. The car is completely off but when I touch the fuse to put the new one in it lights up. That would mean that there's a wire touching on the cigarette lighter right? Or do I have to buy a bigger relay or something to run the radio? Also can someone post a picture of an accurate fuse diagram please, all the ones on google are different, want to see what fuses I should actually be running.

 

IIRC, there are two fuses for the radio. One for the keep alive radio memory. And another that is from IGN+ switched to power the radio.

As for the lighter, same issue with my '92. Jiggle the push-in piece and it pops a fuse. That portion now resides in the console. Although the socket portion can still be used for DC invertors and such.

RBob.

 

The fuse that powers both the cig lighter and the radio memory, as well as the "courtesy lights" (dome and footwell lights), is blown. It's labelled "CTSY".

Meanwhile, your cig lighter is AFU. Replace it before changing the fuse, as it will just blow a new fuse the same as it did the old one.