Interesting Thing Happened Today.

[ctrcbob]

In a neighboring town (Tavares FL), they opened a "Sea Plane Base" a couple weeks ago. Well I decided to go there and watch the Float Planes come in and take off. Parked my car in the parking area, opened the windows, put the car on ACC and sat listening to the radio. After close to an hour, I received a phone call on my Bluetooth phone, so while talking to my buddy, (remember the car was on ACC and radio playing for somewhere around an hour), the ACC suddenly shut off, the radio shut off, the seat went back to the off position, and the Bluetooth went off. It was as if I had shut everything off by pushing the start/stop button, but I didn't. Strange.

Did not really bother me, but wonder if the system was designed like this or not.

 

[ctrcbob]

In a neighboring town (Tavares FL), they opened a "Sea Plane Base" a couple weeks ago. Well I decided to go there and watch the Float Planes come in and take off. Parked my car in the parking area, opened the windows, put the car on ACC and sat listening to the radio. After close to an hour, I received a phone call on my Bluetooth phone, so while talking to my buddy, (remember the car was on ACC and radio playing for somewhere around an hour), the ACC suddenly shut off, the radio shut off, the seat went back to the off position, and the Bluetooth went off. It was as if I had shut everything off by pushing the start/stop button, but I didn't. Strange.

Did not really bother me, but wonder if the system was designed like this or not.

Now that I think of it, I was talking to my buddy in Roswell, and I wonder if an Alien sent some kind of signal through the mothership to shut my car down.

 

[nearwater]

lol. Maybe you should wear a tin foil hat.
Seriously though, I think there's some kind of battery saver mode to protect it from discharging.
An hour without engine running? I think it's very possible that it went into standby mode by design.

Dan

 

[mikec]

The 17-speaker Tech package system (I don't know about the 14 speaker or base system) will auto-shutoff after 1 hour if the engine is not running. While the system is ON, engine OFF, it will display the nag screen every few minutes warning you about battery discharge. After an hour, it says "enough" and shuts down to save the battery. You can tap the START button and resume for another hour. I let my car sit in the driveway with the Nationwide race blaring through the open windows while I rebuilt a throttle assembly for a different car. Two and a half hours of audio (LCD was shut off via the DIS menus). Car started just fine after that too. The one hour shutoff, and the nag screens, are too conservative it seems.

mike c.