Where is this thread? "Keep your radio on until you open the drivers door"

[ozzie_online88]

Hey guys, before the site went down a couple of weeks ago I found a thread telling you how to hook up a few relays in a VR commy to keep the radio on until the drivers side door was opened.

Any one able to repost this in the how to section? With pics and all?

I would really appreciate it

[AttaBoy]

Have to tried the search function??? Hope its not gone because of the down time in the past few weeks.

[lgnd3800]

id like to know how to do this aswell..

[dufus]

I just did a quick search and couldn't find it, unfortunately it was proberbly lost in the host change

[TheForgotten]

it's still on the other commodore site (the red one) just look in FAQ section

[nick88]

man i hope that hasnt gone....cause i bloody did the how to! lol.....its gotta be somewhere i hope, if not ill try and think of it all again n do another
Nick

[nick88]

ok ive jsut re-posted the how to, its jsut waiting to be approved
Nick

[ozzie_online88]

Thanks heaps nick..hopefully it will be approved soon

[nick88]

How To: Keep your radio on until you open the drivers door

[markovr]

How about this circuit..anyone see any glitches? It doesnt need a extra relay to stop the sequence when the engine is running and you open the door and only uses one special normally closed contact type relay and one normal type and when you shut the door everything is off after getting out of the car .Probably doesnt need the diode across the coil on the first relay.Just tried it in my car and it works the way it should...used relays from a vs that are only half the size of your standard bosch relay so they dont bulk around the fuses.

[markovr]

Added a extra push button switch that is used as the boot release on some vr/s in the glove box .
In the loom there was 2 extra wires a orange/red and a black /red that are normally used for it but my car has a cable operated boot release so it doesnt use these wires. Orange/red had a hard 12 v on it so I connected it to one side and ran a wire to the other side back to the relays in the place shown.
Now with the door shut with a momentary press of the switch you can turn the radio on without the key or if you want to listen to the radio outside just wind the window down and from outside open the glovebox and press the switch and the radio comes on.Open the door to turn it off like before.