Cigarette Lighter, Clock And Climate Control Fuse #11 Burning Out

[mnesbit]

I have a 95 LS 400 and yesterday the lighter (which I use to charge my cell phone), climate control and clock all stopped working. I have checked fuse #11 which was burnt out and replaced it. The systems all worked for a few seconds and then the fuse burnt out again. I believe it is caused by a fault in electrical for the lighter as when i was pulling out my cell charger from the lighter connection, the lighter connection broke lose. So I am assuming I may have short circuited the electrical.

My question is: Does anybody know how to remove the whole ash trayassembly (the one with the closing door) from the console?

And any other suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks, Mike

[fsuguy]

mnesbit,

my '92 has a similar problem without the fuse blowing out, but I have not taken out the ashtray to check it; there is a good tutorial on lexls.com for removal, if I recollect correctly.

hth