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Originally Posted by raleedy
A slightly different question is whether the iPod charges when the car is switched off. Anybody know? It's a little hard to tell, because there is more than one state of "off" — there's the state when the car has just been switched off, and then the deeper sleep that comes a few minutes later after the doors are closed and locked. Finding out what happens then is a little like trying to find out whether the refrigerator light goes out when the door is closed.
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no. after about 10 mins or less the power to the socket is removed. like the E60 there seems to be a deliberate time period where some elements of the car will have power for about 10 mins after you've shut things down kind of like difference between a laptop going into standby first then going into complete shutdown/power off.
next time you wash the car with all OFF leave the armrest open and you'll see after about 10 mins you should see the BMW logo on the ipod goes away as the ipod goes to sleep...if you wake the ipod you should also see it is not charging anymore.
in answer to the original question....yep ipods always charge when connected and car is ON. my ipod also lives in the armrest permanently and never have to bring it out to charge it only to put new music on it.