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<blockquote data-quote="Hopeless" data-source="post: 8416416" data-attributes="member: 667023">Hi guys,I was wondering if you could please give an idiot some advice.Years ago I bought a Kenwood car stereo. I don&#039;t know much about stereos, but it plays without any problems and can play my MP3 CDs in random order, so it has kept me happy on many a long journey. Every time I have bought a new car, I have taken the original stereo out, and installed my trusty Kenwood instead.Today I traded in my 2003 Astra and bought a 2009 Passat, and immediately proceeded to swap over the stereos. I bought a conversion kit that contained all the connecting wires, and I connected the main block of wires and the antenna using these. The stereo works fine (though, as always, the steering wheel controls don&#039;t work, which is fine).The curious thing is that the stereo does not switch off when I take out the key. In all my previous cars, once I turned off the ignition and took out the key, the stereo would switch off, and continue playing where it cut out when I re-started the engine. Now, however, it just keeps playing. The Passat has a fob instead of a key, but otherwise the set-up is the same, and I have not changed any settings or wiring on the stereo.I presume there is wire connected that takes power directly from the battery whether the key is in or not, but I haven&#039;t a clue where to look for it, how to change it and where to plug it in, and can&#039;t seem to find the answer online either. Could anybody give me any idea what to do, in idiot-proof terms please?Thanks very much.Hopeless</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hopeless, post: 8416416, member: 667023"] Hi guys, I was wondering if you could please give an idiot some advice. Years ago I bought a Kenwood car stereo. I don't know much about stereos, but it plays without any problems and can play my MP3 CDs in random order, so it has kept me happy on many a long journey. Every time I have bought a new car, I have taken the original stereo out, and installed my trusty Kenwood instead. Today I traded in my 2003 Astra and bought a 2009 Passat, and immediately proceeded to swap over the stereos. I bought a conversion kit that contained all the connecting wires, and I connected the main block of wires and the antenna using these. The stereo works fine (though, as always, the steering wheel controls don't work, which is fine). The curious thing is that the stereo does not switch off when I take out the key. In all my previous cars, once I turned off the ignition and took out the key, the stereo would switch off, and continue playing where it cut out when I re-started the engine. Now, however, it just keeps playing. The Passat has a fob instead of a key, but otherwise the set-up is the same, and I have not changed any settings or wiring on the stereo. I presume there is wire connected that takes power directly from the battery whether the key is in or not, but I haven't a clue where to look for it, how to change it and where to plug it in, and can't seem to find the answer online either. Could anybody give me any idea what to do, in idiot-proof terms please? Thanks very much. Hopeless [/QUOTE]

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