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lightning

Member Since: 23 Apr 2009
Location: High Peak, Derbyshire
Posts: 2834

Can l get the radio to stay on?

.....with the ignition off?
lt stays on for a few minutes and then demands l press the start/stop button but that fires up all the vehicles systems
Then if you press the button again it all goes off, including the radio!

Frustrating

1st Dec 2022 1:06pm

macfrank

Member Since: 05 Nov 2015
Location: somewhere in the north
Posts: 1081

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 SW Keswick Green

Seems to be a very annoying "feature" of many (all?) modern cars... Radio is not just a radio anymore, but a power hungry big-screen infotainment system which sometimes also acts as communication gatway for other ECUs and performs all kind of other tasks. In a VW architecture there will be only three big ECUs left instead of many small ones. Wake them up and battery is discharged in no time... When my little Citroen gets on my nerves shutting off the radio while I wait in the car, they euphemistically call it "eco mode" - yeah, thanks...

1st Dec 2022 1:30pm

lightning

Member Since: 23 Apr 2009
Location: High Peak, Derbyshire
Posts: 2834

okay l guessed it might be something like that!

Can l stop the headlights from staying on after l leave the vehicle, it's not necessary for me to have this feature.

1st Dec 2022 6:08pm

macfrank

Member Since: 05 Nov 2015
Location: somewhere in the north
Posts: 1081

https://www.ownerinfo.landrover.com/docume...c/G2452507
?

1st Dec 2022 6:20pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17437

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

lightning wrote:
okay l guessed it might be something like that!

Can l stop the headlights from staying on after l leave the vehicle, it's not necessary for me to have this feature.

I've never really understood feature given that it is against the law to have headlights on on a stationary vehicle other than a vehicle stationary in traffic, and for that matter illegal to have headlights on when reversing. The majority of modern cars appear to compel you to break the law.

1st Dec 2022 8:43pm

Tim in Scotland

Member Since: 23 May 2007
Location: The Land that time forgot
Posts: 3753

See attached from the iGuide

Click image to enlarge Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed!

2nd Dec 2022 10:00am

macfrank

Member Since: 05 Nov 2015
Location: somewhere in the north
Posts: 1081

That's were my link points to...

2nd Dec 2022 10:10am

Farmerben

Member Since: 16 Jan 2017
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 605

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 HT Keswick Green

blackwolf wrote:
lightning wrote:
okay l guessed it might be something like that!

Can l stop the headlights from staying on after l leave the vehicle, it's not necessary for me to have this feature.

I've never really understood feature given that it is against the law to have headlights on on a stationary vehicle other than a vehicle stationary in traffic, and for that matter illegal to have headlights on when reversing. The majority of modern cars appear to compel you to break the law.

Where does it say that in the highway code? https://instagram.com/bentheoandrews

2nd Dec 2022 11:24am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17437

It doesn't, but the HC is far from the definitive list of motoring laws.

It will be one of the following, but I cannot offhand remember which nor do I have the time nor immediate motivation to find it:

It is also possible that EC law has superseded the UK legislation.

2nd Dec 2022 11:52am

LR Nuts

Member Since: 10 Aug 2022
Location: UK
Posts: 1140

Waiting and parking (238 to 252)
Rules for waiting and parking, including rules on parking at night and decriminalised parking enforcement.

Rule 239

you MUST switch off the engine, headlights and fog lights

Is this what you are looking for ??

2nd Dec 2022 12:11pm

lightning

Member Since: 23 Apr 2009
Location: High Peak, Derbyshire
Posts: 2834

Well, l've turned the feature off.

Thank you for the link to the owners handbook online.

2nd Dec 2022 12:42pm

Farmerben

Member Since: 16 Jan 2017
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 605

LR Nuts wrote:
Waiting and parking (238 to 252)
Rules for waiting and parking, including rules on parking at night and decriminalised parking enforcement.

Rule 239

you MUST switch off the engine, headlights and fog lights

Is this what you are looking for ??

I get that one. Was more the being illegal to reverse with headlights on, which, in the dark seems a bit ridiculous/unsafe.

The headlight delay is (I'm assuming) for people who have private driveways without lights on a PIR so you can see where you're going to get to your door. https://instagram.com/bentheoandrews

2nd Dec 2022 5:07pm

diesel_jim

Member Since: 13 Oct 2008
Location: hiding
Posts: 6093

blackwolf wrote:

I've never really understood feature given that it is against the law to have headlights on on a stationary vehicle other than a vehicle stationary in traffic, and for that matter illegal to have headlights on when reversing. The majority of modern cars appear to compel you to break the law.

Similar thing from back in the late 90's.... I used to have a Peugeot 405 estate, had snazzy fog lights on the front that you could turn on with just the sidelights, to give that (in a 20-something year olds mind) cool look of bright fogs and dim headlights.

I got tugged by the police and told off for having front fogs on (when the viewing distance was clearly more than 100yds... anyone remember that? rears for 50yds and fronts for 100 or something similar).
Anyway, roll on a few years and every car has "driving lights" that are always on dazzling everyone.

Bah humbug moan whinge modern tech moan ad infinitum......

5th Dec 2022 6:49pm

J77

Member Since: 04 Nov 2019
Location: Fife
Posts: 3404

Farmerben wrote:
LR Nuts wrote:
Waiting and parking (238 to 252)
Rules for waiting and parking, including rules on parking at night and decriminalised parking enforcement.

Rule 239

you MUST switch off the engine, headlights and fog lights

Is this what you are looking for ??

I get that one. Was more the being illegal to reverse with headlights on, which, in the dark seems a bit ridiculous/unsafe.

The headlight delay is (I'm assuming) for people who have private driveways without lights on a PIR so you can see where you're going to get to your door.

Exactly that, it’s called follow me home lighting. 24MY 90 D250 HSE, Tasman Blue

5th Dec 2022 7:22pm

lightning

Member Since: 23 Apr 2009
Location: High Peak, Derbyshire
Posts: 2834

What's with the ridiculous "single fog light" illumination when you go round a corner? l can tell that my Defender does it, but it has no apparent use whatsoever

5th Dec 2022 8:13pm

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