Mystery cheep from dash area

Post by **cumbriankeith** » 25 Aug 2006, 11:49

Help me out - I'm puzzled...
I have heard on various, seemingly random, occasions a series of about 10 cheeps coming from the dash area on my camper. They are about 2 per second, there may be 9 or 10 or so at a time and I cannot figure what they mean - if anything.
I changed the instrument panel for one with trip counter and a clock on the right - from a slightly later model of van - it has a temp gauge as well as a petrol one so is from a watercooled van (mine is a/c)
Anyone??

Post by **HarryMann** » 25 Aug 2006, 12:19

The only cheep-cheeps or occasional warbles I get are when I've left the fan blower on setting No. 1 and forgotten -

I've given the dash a good speaking to but says it doesn't want to come out right now, 'cos its enjoying the summer far too much.

Speedo cable routing Keith?

Post by **cumbriankeith** » 25 Aug 2006, 13:05

Hmm - great ideas but no cigar. The noise I'm talking about it definitely sounds like it's electronically synthesized.

I have no heater fan (well I added an inline booster but seldom use it and it gives a gentle or enthusiastic roar depending on which speed setting it's on) and the speedo cable has been renewed and well lubricated to try and rid it of the twitch they all have by all accounts.

Post by **HarryMann** » 25 Aug 2006, 20:49

MY horn/hooter makes that sort of noise, but only when I push the the switch on the steering wheel - yours couldn't be shorting out occasionally - in desperation

Website · Post by **CovKid** » 25 Aug 2006, 21:13

I've been off, watched a bit of telly and been thinking about this one. I cannot think of ANYTHING on a T25 dash that would make that noise at all apart from some small digital device (like a clock) that has disappeared down a vent or something. Mind you, I do know someone who had a mouse in his Type2. It got right inside somehow and in between the bodywork and inner panels and made itself nice and cosy in there. Took him months to get rid of it.

Post by **HarryMann** » 25 Aug 2006, 22:13

Right! and if in the heater system, you don't want to blast it all out with a fan - droppings are nasty in dust form!

Post by **Aidan** » 26 Aug 2006, 11:43

buzzer of doom ? If late dash then will have dynamic oil pressure system, with warning buzzer, and it won't be getting the signal it wants from your engine unless you have altered the multipin wiring and earthed the high op contact.

Post by **Aidan** » 26 Aug 2006, 11:43

buzzer of doom ? If late dash then will have dynamic oil pressure system, with warning buzzer, and it won't be getting the signal it wants from your engine unless you have altered the multipin wiring and earthed the high op contact.
Buzzer of doom is continuous though and very annoying, eh Clive ?

Post by **HarryMann** » 26 Aug 2006, 12:02

Think you might have got it Aidan, that can cheep, cheep, under some conditions - well done sir! usually when traversing through the 200rpm range and back, when it think its in range but the built in lag tells it not to bother, by then the pressure's Ok again.

Keith?

Post by **cumbriankeith** » 26 Aug 2006, 13:24

That's sounds more like it Aidan!
You said

unless you have altered the multipin wiring and earthed the high op contact.

but you kind of lost me slightly - do I need to earth something on the back of the instruments to stop this sounding or can I connect something to use this function?

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