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How to get my cigarette lighter power to turn off with car engine?

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I have a GPS hooked up in my car that I want to turn off on its own as the engine turns off, rather than me manually doing it each time. Both of my cars power ports are always on. What's a solution I can do to fix this? I am trying to find some type of port adapters on Amazon, only two I found that might work are:
this and maybe this.

Other than that, what can I do? Take it in somewhere to rewire?
Thanks
 
Some vehicles have a fuse that you can move to make one of the power ports operate with the key.

What vehicle?
 
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I don't see that option for your car.

Looks like shabby's suggestion is the best, or just wire one of the outlets to a key on circuit and reserve it for low powered items.
 
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