So about 3 days ago the radio in my 08 Fit Sport would still play for about 2 seconds after I turned off the car and removed the key. Now, I didnt think too much about it because my 95 Civic used to do that from time to time but it started bothering me for it being such a new car. I asked the Honda dealer here and they never saw it.

Now I work at an Acura dealership as a tech and a guy i work with used to work with Honda so I asked him and he had saved all the S/B's and S/N's from when he worked for Honda. We looked through them and found a ServiceNews about the radio playing after key was off for Civic's. It said the cause was cell phone chargers in the accessory socket keeping enough charge to run the radio for a couple more seconds after the key was off.

Well I didnt have a cell phone charger plugged in but I did have a small power inverter plugged in, that I just happened to plug in about 3 days ago and I used to plug it into my Civic. Well I unplugged it today and no more problem. The radio turns off right when the key turns off.

I know that I've read other people having this problem, so I hope it helps you all.

 

on my MINI i can play the stereo without the key at demand...

so i never really thought of that being a problem. hahaha.

 

oh thanks! i've never had this problem but that was pretty interesting to read.