12v sockets

[DDWH]

Is there a way to set the front 12v sockets to shut off when you turn off the vehicle? I thought they turned off after say 5 mins or so like the radio does. But 30mins later they where still on. Long story short wife got me a gps w/msn traffic dealy for Christmas and I would like to keep the adaptor pluged in and not have to keep pulling it out.

thanks!

[MattRoberts123]

Go to radio shack.... get an additional cigarette lighter adaptor....

Either take it to a car stereo shop or do this yourself... install the new adaptor up under the dash and have it connected to the vehicle accessory wire... now run your power wire from your gps unit underneath one of the A pillars and down behind the dash. Plug it into your new hidden cigarette lighter adaptor..... that way it turns on and off with the vehicle.

Plug your new unit into it, and you are good to go... now you have use of all the factory plugs, no messy wires around the dash, and the unit turns on and off with teh car.

[DDWH]

Yeah, didn't want to cut the factory wires. I will use it in the wifes car when it's just us and not the family type trips.

Just figured the sockets would go dead like the radio after a certain time and I thought I read somewhere on here that was possible....I think I will just get some factory type switches and wire them up to be off or on.

[MattRoberts123]

Don't have to cut any wires... just get the wire tap devices from an autoparts store.