USB ashtray

[FitzWill]

Greetings folks, just a quick post about a happy little solution I found. The dash in my 99 Burban has gotten kinda hacked up by previous owners, and the lighter sockets had been cut out. I wanted some quick 12v and found this little USB/12v socket brick at wally world. 11 bucks, and it fit about perfect into the ashtray. I hole-sawed a 7/8" hole in the back of the ashtray to run the wires out and allow the brick to sit a little farther in. I've got the top edge of the brick under the steel cover, which holds it in place. Ashtray even closes properly, and there's a red pilot light as a bonus.

 

[stafford0620]

Do you have a link to this? I kinda wanna do this to my blazer. Ive been wanting to do something like this and keep a factory look as well.

 

[TechNova]

I was just mocking up a way to mount USB port in my 91 ashtray. Dash is too good to cut, I have a spare ash tray I don't mind cutting.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Greetings folks, just a quick post about a happy little solution I found. The dash in my 99 Burban has gotten kinda hacked up by previous owners, and the lighter sockets had been cut out. I wanted some quick 12v and found this little USB/12v socket brick at wally world. 11 bucks, and it fit about perfect into the ashtray. I hole-sawed a 7/8" hole in the back of the ashtray to run the wires out and allow the brick to sit a little farther in. I've got the top edge of the brick under the steel cover, which holds it in place. Ashtray even closes properly, and there's a red pilot light as a bonus.

Did you find this in electronic department or in automotive department? Since I go in several wm's weekly for work, this is something I will look at. My 2021 model phone doesn't think my 1999 model truck and old charger are very compatible with it, and charges slowly. Proof nobody back in the 90s predicted how ubiquitous personal electronic devices would be by now ( or they figured we'd all be in newer vehicles by now!).

 

[FitzWill]

It was in Automotive. EverStart brand, model 5135. I snapped a pic with my wallet to estimate size before i bought it.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Thanks, I will check it out tomorrow!