RoyClark
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- Joined
- Nov 21, 2013
- Messages
- 11
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- 5
- Location
- Stafford
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Dash Cam
- Blackvue DR380G-HD x 2
We went shopping at Asda this morning, I left the rear camera plugged into the cargo area power point, came back to the car after about 3/4 hour (didn't unlock the car) and the camera was still on, so looks as though the cargo area socket is permanent power.I'm sure you have checked, but I would double check that - a lot of modern cars the ciggy is can-bus activated, so will switch off a while after the ignition is off.
So if you're just testing it might give the appearance of working after the ignition has switched off, but it might then disable after a certain amount of time.
I know in my car the ciggy activates when I unlock the car, and if I don't touch anything at all and just sit there it'll go off after about 2 mins. - I needed to hook into the fuse box to get a 'true' perm live (which if I remember, I took off the OBD socket fuse).
When we got home I plugged a 5w bulb into the ciggy lighter socket, left it on for 1/2 hour and it was still on, so can definitely say that the ciggy lighters are permanent power. I did this first with the car unlocked, then with the car locked.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, my car could have easily been the same as your VW, Audi being in the same group.