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Hi,
I have a tyre pump which plugged into the cigarette lighter socket in my old car. I discovered this morning that it doesn't make a connection with the 12v socket in my polo.
Do I need some sort of adaptor and if so does it need to be vag specific?

Regards

Pete

Did you have the ignition turned on? - the 12v socket isn’t live until you switch the ignition on. I have 2020 GTI+ and my tyre compressor works fine in my car, but only with the ignition on.

Doh!
Never occured to me that it might not be live.
Hopefully that's the issue.

Thanks