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[Terbs]

Anyhow, thanks mate...I still have the other one to extract at some point.

[YZ250]

Anyhow, thanks mate...I still have the other one to extract at some point.

No problem.  It is very fiddly trying to line up the plier tips with the plastic tabs. I shone a torch down there to see what I was doing a bit better. 
If you search, you will find that I asked the same question a couple of years back and the answer was to smash it out, so you are not alone. I'm just very inquisitive about how things fit and eventually came up with the pliers idea. 
Good luck with the other one. 

[05omegav6]

It's one of those jobs I have done, and is quite fiddly... far easier to do than to explain, for me anyways...

Easier done methodically off the car

Moral of the tale? Always get loom tails whenever you buy any electrical spares

[Terbs]

Ironically, Alan, I searched through 7 pages before I posted. I did see the destruction post

And, as Al says....much easier for access off the car

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

My experience witht he evil cig lighter was my attempting to fit the springloaded 12v cover as on Vectra Cs, which we considered a nicer solution compared with the floppy rubber affair on the Omega.

Did this work? I'm making a little pile of bits to improve my pair, but in a factory+ way.

Still don't know if my shiny new USB/ cigar lighter panel will fit in the glovebox out of the way... 

[05omegav6]

My experience witht he evil cig lighter was my attempting to fit the springloaded 12v cover as on Vectra Cs, which we considered a nicer solution compared with the floppy rubber affair on the Omega.

Did this work? I'm making a little pile of bits to improve my pair, but in a factory+ way.

Still don't know if my shiny new USB/ cigar lighter panel will fit in the glovebox out of the way... 

Late Omega facelifts already have this feature

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

My experience witht he evil cig lighter was my attempting to fit the springloaded 12v cover as on Vectra Cs, which we considered a nicer solution compared with the floppy rubber affair on the Omega.

Did this work? I'm making a little pile of bits to improve my pair, but in a factory+ way.

Still don't know if my shiny new USB/ cigar lighter panel will fit in the glovebox out of the way... 

Late Omega facelifts already have this feature

Shows how much attention I pay... I'm sure both mine are floppier than a floppy thing!

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Always thought it would have been a good mod on the production line to have these, glad they did it, but to Gastro - yes, worked great, and after many years of use was still fine. On a PFL requires cutting into the panel on which the 12v socket sits, for anyone wishing to try it on older cars 

[05omegav6]

Always thought it would have been a good mod on the production line to have these, glad they did it, but to Gastro - yes, worked great, and after many years of use was still fine. On a PFL requires cutting into the panel on which the 12v socket sits, for anyone wishing to try it on older cars 

Rear panel is very different... due in no small part to the differences between the centre consoles

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Yes, indeed, much differences. I did it on both PFL and FL cars. Stating that the process for FL doesn't require and chopping into the actual car trim, whereas on PFL it does, as the 12v outlet is recessed on PFL/MFL cars 

[05omegav6]

Might be slightly at cross purposes...

Later facelift Omegas look like this...



Obviously an Elite one, heated rear seats, but 12v socket identical