need some help melted wires

[gore666]

had a cheap phone charger fall apart in the cigarette lighter port next to the drivers leg and it melted the wires going to it. I separated the wires and replaced the fuse and it blew as soon as I put it in. so I need to find where the wires go just thought I would ask before pulling the dash apart.

I now have a check engine light on and I cannot get power to the obd port to see whats wrong. any help or advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[big_b_in_PA]

Make sure the wires are separate as far as you can see them. Then if they are, leave the lighter socket unplugged and see if it blows the fuse. If not there's something still in the socket. If so, then you need to dig further. I'm just suggesting this to hopefully save you work.

 

[gore666]

thanks for the reply I have the socket cut off and first 4 inches of wire from the socket cut off that's all that looked melted the wires going into the dash look fine. looks like ill have to start taking it apart.

does anyone know where the cigarette lighter connects and powers the obd port?
under the drink holders is a larger wire connecter and I think I see the wires in there ill have to ohm test to be sure but I don't want to just cut it there if it doesn't fix my obd issue

 

[Bomba02]

this happened to me my friend, i ended up having to gut my entire dash out cause it burnt/melted wires to the engine bay fuse block. The cigarette wiring runs up behind the radio hooks a left behind cluster dives down near pillar and then out a grommet to engine bay.
Took me prob 4 days total of 8-10 hours to fix it. It also hooked into any rear ones if you have them in your center console.
Yes it powers the OBD II.
Hopefully its not that bad you can get to it. I had three circuits that kept blowing fuses cause they were welded together.
Good luck man, this is what it looked like at one point