We have a Fabia mk2 1.4 2007.

We recently plugged in a basic 2 port Anker USB car charger for charging phones and the like.

Also to enable some basic music playback via bluetooth we added a UGREEN Bluetooth aux adapter which uses one of the usb ports and plugs directly in to the audio aux next to it.

 

This setup is working great, really pleased with it, the quibble I have is:

• The auxiliary power port seems to be always on.
• Im not hugely concerned about this from a power consumption point of view.
• Because the bluetooth adapter is always on it seems to have connection issues with our phones if we leave the car and come back to it.
• We often pull the usb adapter out and plug it back in to power cycle the bluetooth adapter which forces it to reconnect to our devices.

 

The ideal scenario here would be that the auxiliary power port was linked to the ignition.

To that end I return you to the original question in the title of this thread.

 

Can I switch the auxiliary power port to only come on when there is ignition?

 

Edited 22 October, 20214 yr by WezFab
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I would assume you would need to find the permanent live feed and swap it for a live feed that only comes on with the ignition. I doubt many many have bothered to do this as generally, people might want things the other way around, so to speak.

Is there a fuse in position 30, neighbour of 47 in the other row?

I might have an idea if there isn't.

25 minutes ago, mrgf said:

generally, people might want things the other way around, so to speak.

 

Yeah I did think, in general I can see why it's this way around.

 

9 minutes ago, Wino said:

Is there a fuse in position 30, neighbour of 47 in the other row?

 

I'll have a look at this and get a photo of the fuses posted, I was hoping that there might be a simple solution like this tho.. shifting a fuse in to a different route or something.

Looks like it's taken

 

Edited 22 October, 20214 yr by WezFab

That might still be OK.

Piggy-back fuseholder (example) in that position 30 with 15Amp fuses in both parts, then cut up a spare fuse to leave just one bare contact and solder it carefully to the end of the wire coming off the piggyback. Make sure the whole part that normally goes into the fuseholder is as it was. Plug that into the contact of position 47 that isn't always live (the one going off to the accessory socket).

Ooo Nice, looks like a fun little mod, will give this a go 👌