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Both my cars have that misfeature, but vary in details. Both take just long enough to start playing that they usually start blaring music as I'm backup up. Nor
by pavon 5y ago
Both my cars have that misfeature, but vary in details. Both take just long enough to start playing that they usually start blaring music as I'm backup up. Nor have I found any way to disable the feature on either. It took months for me to get into the habit of sitting and waiting for it to boot so I could turn it off before I start driving.
The Honda CR-V is like you say, it will only turn on if you had the radio on when the car was shut off (makes sense), but turns on long before it is capable of responding to the off button.
The Chevy Bolt infuriatingly turns on (almost) every time you get in the car regardless of whether the radio was on or not when you last used it. For the life of me I cannot figure out what heuristics cause it to (very rarely) not turn on. At least its off button is functional at the time it starts playing.
- csours 5y agoFor the Bolt - was it connected to Bluetooth when the car turned off?
- pavon 5y agoI don't know. My phone isn't paired with the car, but my wife's is. If I drive the grocery store and back, the radio will always turn on when I'm leaving the house (after the wife used it last), and it will usually (but not always) turn on as I'm leaving the grocery store. It is possible that the car is intermittently connecting with her phone (which is inside the house) before I leave. In any case though, it always starts up playing radio even if it was playing via bluetooth on the last trip (and that same phone connects with the same apps open).