Radio automatic turnoff: nothing can go wrong go wrong go wrong

The cheap radio I bought at a K Mart store for my van quit working years
ago.I get nervous listening to a radio when I am driving.I will not
replace that old radio.
cuhulin

Hi!

> I think I found a bug^undocumented feature of wildcard utility...

> Some minutes later you go back to the car and discover that the radio
> is still on! Yep, the computer is only smart enough to offer a
> radio auto-offer via the dome light switch in the driver's side
> door.

I'd be very surprised if the radio would play until the battery was dead.
This is not exactly a new feature (my 2003 S-10 has it!), and in every
manual I've seen, GM says the retained accessory power feature will turn off
in twenty minutes.

It works on my truck...

William

"William R. Walsh" m>
wrote in message news:zCsuj.39965$9j6.16311@attbi_s22...
> Hi!
>
>> I think I found a bug^undocumented feature of wildcard utility...
>
>> Some minutes later you go back to the car and discover that the radio
>> is still on! Yep, the computer is only smart enough to offer a
>> radio auto-offer via the dome light switch in the driver's side
>> door.
>
> I'd be very surprised if the radio would play until the battery was dead.
> This is not exactly a new feature (my 2003 S-10 has it!), and in every
> manual I've seen, GM says the retained accessory power feature will turn
> off
> in twenty minutes.
>
> It works on my truck...

It actually isn't a new feature at all. My 1996 Bonneville has it.