Cigarette lighter not working? Radio? Windows? Could be a bad wire, motor, or something else. But, the easiest thing to check is something called a fuse. A fuse exists to break the electrical connection in the event of a power surge to prevent damaging the components. Locate your fuse panel in the car. Its somewhere under the dash or under the hood.
Heres where mine is in the Subaru Outback. Its behind the pocket in the dash on the drivers side.
Remove the pocket and you can see the fuses there in the plastic panel.
I don't have a picture of this, but on the back of the pocket there is a diagram showing which fuse controls which component. Some cars have a fuse puller tool in the panel for easy use. Mine doesn't so I have to use long nose pliers to pull the fuse.
Here is a fuse. This one is called a Mini ATO fuse, there are larger versions of this fuse. This fuse is functional, if the metal in the middle of the fuse was broken then it would need to be replaced.
ALWAYS replace fuses with the same fuse, they are rated by what Amperage (electrical current) they can carry and they have corresponding colors, with the numbers printed on the top.
If you change a bad (or blown) fuse and it blows again, then you have another problem.
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