Somewhere on my 2007, there must be a switch to allow the cigarette lighter plug to remain on after the ignition switch is turned off. I need this to recharge my phone ovenight while in the car.
Now the phone never gets fully recharged because I am always turning the car on and off during the day.
Nope...sorry. You'll have to wire a new outlet, or rewire an existing one to get thet.
No switch. You could rewire the lighter to functiuon that way. Why not charge it inside with AC adapter?
There is as everyone else has said NO switch.this would be a breach of design regs to make the car safe after ignition has been isolated.ISNT THERE ENOUGH CAR FIRES????as for wiring it that way ...............ISNT THERE ENOUGH CAR FIRES??????
Wouldn't a fuse take care of most safety issues?
Then again, the original poster runs the risk of draining the battery faster...
Not enough car fires over here. But we just had a big truck fire a couple days ago:
Michael
Plenty of vehicles have "live" power points. My Nissan Frontier has one of each (one always on and one switched with the ignition). Most Fords have always on cigarette lighters (well, they call them power points now). Some Buicks have the ability to change theirs from switched to always on by moving a jumper in the fuse box.
Ed
Ok thanks for the info , In Australia this is not the case , im trying to find a vehicle in our market that has this , but so far no luck ,ill keep looking.
My last three Fords had two live power points - one was the "cigarette lighter" the other was just a utility plug. Both stayed "hot" when the car was turned off - but there was a "battery saver" feature that turned off all of these points (and the headlights) after, I think, about 45 minutes. I seem to read that my 2007 Camry has a similar feature. But I notice that the headlights turn themselves off when the engine goes off.
BTW, my old Moto phone had two chargers, one for AC and one for DC (auto). The AC was a "trickle" charger and would take several hours to charge. The DC was a high speed charger and could re-charge the battery in about an hour. But it also had a tendency of shorting out and blowing the fuse...I got pretty adept and crawling under the dashboard to replace these...
My new phone charges on AC very quickly so I almost never use the charger in the car.
BTW, to the original poster...just curious why you can only charge your phone in the car...?
~j
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