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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: Oddball on May 03, 2009, 10:26:45 PM

Title: Warning buzzer on constantly.
Post by: Oddball on May 03, 2009, 10:26:45 PM
Another one for you experts out there.

I ran my girlfriend home whilst testing the brakes (O/S/F overheating is now minimal). I stopped at a shop to get some stuff, leaving her in the car with the radio on. I took the key in with me. When I came back she told me a buzzer had started going off, about a minute after I got out. This buzzer is somewhere under the steering column. It sounds as a constant high pitched buzz. It stops when I turn the ignition on, but it won't stop when the ignition is off, or even when I get out and lock the car.

Help me PLEASE!!!! :cry:

1998 XJ
Title: Re: Warning buzzer on constantly.
Post by: Oddball on May 03, 2009, 11:55:51 PM
Went back down to see if the buzzer was still going, and it seems to have stopped now. I drove around for 20 odd minutes, stopping switching off and starting a few times. No more buzzer. Not sure what caused it or if it'll do it again. Ahh well, such is the joy of learning a new car's quirks.
Title: Re: Warning buzzer on constantly.
Post by: gazjeep on May 04, 2009, 06:54:59 AM
Just a thought, have a look at the door switch / contact. Had to replace one on mine as it was sticking & left the interior lights on, drained the battery overnight.

Might be the control module in the drivers door playing up but far more technically minded folk will give you a more informed opinion  :wink:
Title: Re: Warning buzzer on constantly.
Post by: Mike Pavelin on May 04, 2009, 09:17:27 AM
There is no warning buzzer down there on a '98. Only the electronic chime in the instrument cluster. Must have been a relay buzzing for some reason.
Title: Re: Warning buzzer on constantly.
Post by: scrw on May 04, 2009, 10:05:14 AM
Indicator relays are the usual suspect
Title: Re: Warning buzzer on constantly.
Post by: Oddball on May 04, 2009, 11:29:02 PM
Now that I think of it, it was the same buzz as the indicator/hazard lights. Same relay probably. Hasn't happened again, so perhaps it was just a one off.