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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:02 pm 
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Whats the difference between the two radio surrounds i have seen for the EF EL.
A mate told me the EF had the surround that had the lighter hidden and the EL had the exposed lighter, but i have had 2 EFs and they both had exposed lighters and i thought it was the EL that had the hidden lighter.
Any1 know the answer ??

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:06 pm 
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Series One EF had drop front ash tray.
Series Two has later EL type.

Some of them broke and were replaced with EL type.
being a 12y.o car, this may have happened prior to your ownage!

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:59 pm 
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Yeah exactly, by the way is it just me or do others prefer the hidden lighter.
Although it was a pain having the ashtray down i guess, when you have a charger in there, ohwell I threw a second one in the back of the dash, charger plug sticks through the map pocket, hehe.

 

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:05 am 
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I like the look of the hidden lighter as well i think it cleans the dash up a bit.

 

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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:22 pm 
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you will find that the hidden lighter one was found on fairmonts dashes
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 10:20 pm 
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I don't believe your correct their, I had a series 1 gli hidden lighter I have a series 1 Fairmont hidden lighter, I have seen seen series 2 and el Fairmonts down the wreckers, no hidden lighter.

 

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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:56 pm 
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i have never noticed a hidden lighter...pic or somthing..
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:17 pm 
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i have a series 2 fairmont ghia that has the hidden lighter.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:46 pm 
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I've got a '96 EFII Futura with the lighter out on display for all to see.

 

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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:13 pm 
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I have a 96 series 2 Ghia and the lighter is on display???
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:27 pm 
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meh,

The Hidden were the first type.
There was some issues with the mechanism not catching.

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Ford changed them sometime around series 2 EF.
Im sure... they used them all up and the next batch was the later type.

 

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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:34 pm 
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1996 EF series 1 GLi. exposed lighter.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:35 pm 
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Krytox wrote:
meh,

The Hidden were the first type.
There was some issues with the mechanism not catching.

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Ford changed them sometime around series 2 EF.
Im sure... they used them all up and the next batch was the later type.

Interesting, come to think of it when i first got my car the tray wouldn't stay up, so i changed it for my spare, didn't think much about it though, but that explains it, meh, I got a nice smoke free one in now as a result. 8-)

 

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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:49 pm 
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FaBz wrote:
i have never noticed a hidden lighter...pic or somthing..


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