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Is the passenger side footwall plug always hot? Meaning even with ignition off? I want to source a power for my Garmin and was thinking about it.

My apologies again as I could not think up the correct keyword search string.

Short answer is Yes, considering you have a 2001. Long answer is that I believe BMW made some changes during the 2005 production run and the outlets in the passenger compartment go off after a certain period of time. It was around that same time they introduced a new BMW charger that had alligator clips and not just the cigarette outlet socket.

There is though another way to do it that works around this problem.

My 03 is always hot