Radio keeps switiching itself on

HJL · 17-01-2008 2:44am #1

05 Vauxhall Vectra CDTi [pre facelift]
Lock it up and about 10mins later the radio comes on.
Car stays locked.

Anyone got any ideas?

kleefarr · 17-01-2008 3:07am

HJL wrote: »

05 Vauxhall Vectra CDTi [pre facelift]
Lock it up and about 10mins later the radio comes on.
Car stays locked.

Anyone got any ideas?

Remove the fuse for the radio when you get out of the car. If it still goes off then... :eek:

promethius · 17-01-2008 4:59am

Yes if your radio is out of control like that it's possible that your car is in fact a transformer with a faulty vocalisation module and is trying to communicate to you through your radio.

I'll get me coat........

Tomas_V · 17-01-2008 7:30am

HJL wrote: »

05 Vauxhall Vectra CDTi [pre facelift]
Lock it up and about 10mins later the radio comes on.
Car stays locked. Anyone got any ideas?

RDS Traffic Alert?

kleefarr · 17-01-2008 9:56am

Tomas_V wrote: »

RDS Traffic Alert?

While the cars locked? (And I assume nobody is in it.)

Alun · 17-01-2008 10:05am

Anyone ever see the film Christine ..... ?

Mr.Diagnostic · 17-01-2008 10:07am

The radio in that car is a control unit which is on a network of control units. The fault could lie in the radio but more likely in another unit on the network. That is a job for either a dealer or a very good opel specialist.

Alun · 17-01-2008 10:11am

Mr.Diagnostic wrote: »

The radio in that car is a control unit which is on a network of control units. The fault could lie in the radio but more likely in another unit on the network. That is a job for either a dealer or a very good opel specialist.

Good ol' CANbus eh?

Tomas_V · 17-01-2008 10:38pm

Alun wrote: »

Good ol' CANbus eh?

Or it's using the Mikero$oft Kar (Home Edition) (tm) operating system.:eek:

crosstownk · 17-01-2008 10:46pm

Tomas_V wrote: »

RDS Traffic Alert?

More likely to be TIM - Traffic Information Message - practically the same as TA, but the message is stored and replayed the next time you turn on the stereo. I haven't seen TIM in years so I doubt it's on an 05 Vectra.

OP - turn off your TA and see if it still happens. But I'd be more inclined to think that the problem lies in the CAN gateway (or whatever Opel call it).

HJL · 20-01-2008 6:03pm

Thanks for the replies, getting it checked out by garage.
But a tempory solution is to switch the radio off by hand BEFORE taking the key out of the ignition, rather than letting the radio auto switch off by taking the key out.
Ill post the outcome once it gets sorted properly.

20-01-2008 7:47pm

Had a 1.7CDTI 06 Astra, same thing happened. The car was new at the time, and was taken to the garage. They replaced the radio under warranty. That fixed it.

http://www.reviewcentre.com/vt113430_start0_orderasc.html

its a common problem do a google search - dont let opel tell you otherwise and demand it to be done without charge. Its a flaw.

Radio keeps switiching itself on

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