Make ACC socket full time

Neil-in-Arizona · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2009, 09:52 PM

I just got an '09 Fit Sport and am disappointed that the power socket is only active with ACC or RUN. I hate having my GPS restart after gassing up or having lunch. Anyone changed the wiring to be full time on (not switched) and how did you do it?

Daelb · #2 (**permalink**) 07-30-2009, 12:07 AM

I'm interested too. Anybody?

polaski · #3 (**permalink**) 07-31-2009, 12:58 AM

Hondas have been like this pretty much forever. I've been kinda leery about messing with it though after my last Honda. If I left something with decent draw plugged in, say the Peltier-type cooler I used on my last long road trip, even though the ignition was off and thus the cooler was off, in almost exactly 5-minute intervals the car would unlock itself. I kid you not. There's a gremlin in the harness.

Myself I would bypass the entire shebang and run wires from the engine compartment with an inline fuse. To make it really different I would run it through a 3-way toggle switch, where one side is always on, the other ignition-switched, and center off.