This is me taking it upon myself to move the POWER OUTLETS section of the Ash Tray? thread into a thread all it's own.
History: I purchased my very first Subaru, a 1999 30th Anniversary Edition Subaru Legacy SUS, on February 21, 2014. The car was sold to me for $1200 by the original owner, a wonderful older lady. It had been her husband's vehicle and had 131.4 thousand miles on it.
I've been fighting the heating issues of this little car since then, but I think AND HOPE I have it licked. But now, there is one annoying detail about this car I have to get fixed by the end of March.
I ABSOLUTELY NEED at least two power ports as I am a modern-day Pizza Delivery Dude who drives a Subaru and has to be able to power --at the very least-- a pizza-store identification car-topper, and a GPS. (I wouldn't bother with the GPS except for the fact I drive 99% of my deliveries in the dead of night, when a map, compass, flashlight, and mailbox numbers are just a little impossible to use with five cars up your muffler with their brights on, honking, and their drivers cussing you out as they try to get you to do 50 down a road you don't know!)
The power port in my Subaru was registering "hot" on a multimeter, but it wasn't powering anything, so I removed the socket. The VERY NEXT DAY, I discovered Ash Tray? and the DIY installation thread on this site and realized "Well, that was stupid of me."
But then I discovered the part in the DIY had been discontinued years before I bough the car...
So here and now, I ask the SLI Tech Geniuses (you guys know more about Legacies than I do, so you are all Geniuses and gurus) about this part I found at my local O'Reilly Auto Parts store. Is this thing is worth the $14 and my time, SLI Tech?
Or am I just freakin' screwed and have to figure out how to reinstall my cig-port and buy a P.O.S. splitter that will last me two weeks before I have to replace it again and again and again and again until I get too frustrated with wasting my money and just lose my job over late deliveries, getting lost, and not having a lit car-topper? (one of these)