Warning Chime Not Working Properly?

[Eric]

After working properly since I've owned the car, Friday AM my warning chime stopped chiming properly. Now I can hear a muffled buzz instead of the full volume chime. I'm talking about the chime when you don't turn the lights off or don't buckle the seat belt at start up.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any thoughts of where to start? The paranoia in me always thinks something like this is a sign of something worse:eek.

Thanks!

 

[Patrick]

Eric, yours is the first incidence of this I've ever heard. Of course, now that I've just said that, fifteen CAC members are going to chime in and say "Oh this happened to me two years ago, and to fix the muffled warning chime, I did this..." :L

Have you checked the Knowledgebase to see if there are any TSB's on early C5's about this?


-Patrick

 

[Eric]

Eric, yours is the first incidence of this I've ever heard. Of course, now that I've just said that, fifteen CAC members are going to chime in and say "Oh this happened to me two years ago, and to fix the muffled warning chime, I did this..." :L

Have you checked the Knowledgebase to see if there are any TSB's on early C5's about this?


-Patrick

The only TSB related to the chime was about chimes operating at the wrong time, but not about the sound being messed up. Heck, if it just stopped altogether it wouldn't bother me but it's the annoyance of it working improperly that bugs the chips outta me. -Eric

 

[Patrick]

Okay, Eric, here's where I start to speculate and potentially make a complete fool of myself. (This of course means Remo will enjoy reading this thread, as it will give him source material to use against me next winter when he's deep in his seasonal Corvette withdrawl.)

Logically, it seems to me you have two independent factors here, and the good news is that one of them appears to be normal.

What I mean is that the fact you are hearing the warning chime (even if it's sound is distorted/muffled) means that the system which triggers the chime in response to a stimulus it's noticed and wants to bring to your attention- such as the door being left open with the key in the ignition, leaving the lights on when you take the key out of the ignition, or not fastening your seat belt when you fire up the engine- is still functioning properly.

It's the audio component to this I would focus on. The chime is, afterall, just a recorded sound bite triggered by your computer. I don't know if it's "played" through the same speakers as your stereo, but I'd start with the assumption that the speaker that plays the chime has developed some fault.

And if I'm wrong in all this, I'm sure C4C5Specialist will be along shortly to smack be upside the head and tell me to leave this to the experts. :L

-Patrick