That annoying beep

Post by **Bennoz** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:01 pm

To those of you handy with wire cutters & soldering irons, has anyone figured out how to disable that annoying noise the car makes when the keys are in the ignition & the door is open??

onnzo · Post by **onnzo** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:42 pm

Yep

A how to is on the ftooc forums. I also disabled the annoying reverse beep.

Mike

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:21 am

reverse beep?

fto's have a reverse beep?

FTO338 · Post by **FTO338** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:41 am

Yeah on the Tip thereâ€™s a continues beep when you put it on reverse, is a safety device, but my friends thought it was a parking sensor, how embarrassing.

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:20 pm

Thanks Mike,
Dont spose you have a link for it? Been searching ftooc for a while now & cant seem to find it

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:32 pm

All good, got it!
http://www.funky-fto.co.uk/reverse_beep.html

onnzo · Post by **onnzo** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:46 pm

Edit - it looks like you beat me to it! I'm on dial up speeds

That is the link to get rid of the reverse beep. The ignition reminder beep is on the same circuit board. To disable it you have to remove a different diode or resistor if I remember correctly.

Mike

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:26 pm

Ahhh... thanks mate - I'll double check before I go hacking with the side cutters!

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:38 pm

Ok, bit more homework into this & those 3 diodes do 3 different things:
1 is key in ignition bleep, 1 is reverse bleep in Tip & the other is headlights left on bleep... gonna take my soldering iron & try until I find.

BuCkEt · Post by **BuCkEt** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:00 pm

Hahaha, you're game enough to do that?

Or are you going to get a few beers into your first?

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:13 pm

Heheeeee, beer first mate!!
Im too bad with the old soldering iron - good for lighting the cigs with as well! Got one of them wizz bang ones with the interchangable size tips - just make sure I got the little one on for this

onnzo · Post by **onnzo** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:53 pm

Yeah that looks familiar. I didnt know that FTO's had headlight reminders?

Mine didnt. I bought a headlight reminder kit from Jaycar and installed it after a flat battery!

In any case it is pretty easy to do. Good luck.

Mike

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:43 am

Thats one beep I don't mind hehe... have run the battery flat one 2 many times with lights left on