Q: Car radio won't turned off.

asked by on October 10, 2017

My car radio won't turn off when I press off button but it turns off when the car ignition turned off and remove the keys. That is the only way to turn off the car radio.

My car has 22000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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