axnutty 10 Posted June 18, 2007 I cant turn my radio off! If I have my car running the radio works fine, can turn it on and off etc. If I turn the key to ignition (engine off) it also works fine. Now if I turn the key to off altogether (irrespective off if the radio is on or off before hand) it goes off and powers down the screen, but you can here static (no disernable radio station) from the speakers! If you remove the face plate it still does it! At the moment Ive had to pull the radio out and pull the leads out of the back with fear of the battery going flat over night. It doesnt do it everytime, and sometimes it can be "off", but then come back to the car an hour later and its "on"! So seems to have a mind of its own. Its not a fancy radio (Ministry of Sound one) but at the moment am unsure if its the radios fault or the cars? Any ideas? What should I check first? Not too sure if this has anything to do with it, but I havent used my car for a couple of weeks until today and we've had some heavy rains up here end of last week so the cars possibly been a bit damp unfortunatly...if that coudl be anything to do with it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Richie-Van-GTi 71 2 Cars Posted June 18, 2007 does it store radio stations OK? could be the permanent and switched lives are the wrong way around. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
axnutty 10 Posted June 18, 2007 Yeah it stores stations fine and has been working fine up until now since installed 4months back. I will have to run a VU meter off the pins I suppose and see if its getting a feed it shouldnt be. Or get another radio and try that! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jrod 7 Posted June 18, 2007 Is it all or just 1 speaker? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars Posted June 19, 2007 a friend of mine had a similar problem with his cd player randomly turning itself on when the car was off, that managed to fix itself after a few weeks strangely. i have had a problem with an amp in the past where it has been turned off but still giving a small amount of static type noise, quiet enough that you wouldnt notice untill you found out you had a flat battery, i ended up putting a switch in the live cable and used it like that for a while untill i could afford a new one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
axnutty 10 Posted June 19, 2007 (edited) @Jrod - seems to be both speakers - but one more so than the other. @johnny - I did think about doing that. As you say its a very quiet static and if you arent listening for it you wouldnt notice it. I also have noticed something else - The car has had an aftermarket immobiliser fitted, one of those ones where you have a small key fob on your keys, and then theirs a transponder fitted so it senses the fob and disarms the system. No pushing a plug onto a sensor. Now if I go into the car without the keys as of yet the radios always been off. But if I go in the car with my keys in my pocket for instance the radios been on. Now I cant say for certain if its everytime the case... so may not be anything to do with this - ill have to do some more investigation. Edited June 19, 2007 by axnutty Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob_the_Sparky 9 Posted June 19, 2007 Take the radio out and check it is dry back there! As I know to my cost (twice grrrr) if the heater matrix springs a leak then (due to the way teh heater is made) it will dribble antifreeze on the back of the radio or on the connectors. On both my radios it shorted out some of the power pins causing a number of odd failures and yours could easily be this. Rob Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TT205 42 Posted June 19, 2007 I was also going to say - I've had radio problems in two 205's and on both occasions it was the heater matrix leaking on them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
