Can one disable the cold warning beep?
- Thread starter Raify
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It does have a tendency to freak me out
Same here, especially in the morning when i get in the car to drive to work. Makes me think there's something wrong with the car.
It can be done with BMW Scanner 1.4
See "Warnings" list.
See "Warnings" list.
Oooh, that scanner software looks interesting. The first result in Google goes to bimmer forums suggesting you need to solder pins in the obd port to make it work. Not sure I'm ready to solder anything for this small annoyance
Why couldn't they just have a different beep?
Why couldn't they just have a different beep?
Had them on cars for as long as I can remember - the only one that didn't was my first car (baby sick yellow 1.0 Metro).
The only beeps/bleeps that annoyed me were the speed limit bleep in the Z4 when I forget to turn it off on track and you're caressing the car around a fast sweeper on the limit of grip, and the low oil/oil pressure beep in the Corrado VR6 which would beep when you took a fast corner and caused oil starvation on one side of the sump (baffles helped there)!
The only beeps/bleeps that annoyed me were the speed limit bleep in the Z4 when I forget to turn it off on track and you're caressing the car around a fast sweeper on the limit of grip, and the low oil/oil pressure beep in the Corrado VR6 which would beep when you took a fast corner and caused oil starvation on one side of the sump (baffles helped there)!
ewwimbledon
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I set up my speed limit bleep at 80 mph and it makes me jump every time it goes off. At least that one you can switch off.
I quite like the cold weather bleep - it's like the car is looking out for you.
I quite like the cold weather bleep - it's like the car is looking out for you.
Raify said:
No soldering needed, I have 2007 model year.
When I changed the needles on my dash someone posted on the thread that you can mute the little speaker with some cotton wool if you take the instrument cluster apart. As I had just put it back together I decided not to... I quite like the warning as my car sits in the garage so it takes a while for the temperature to reflect what's going on outside... And it's just a wee reminder that it is getting cold enough to freeze. Remember that if the ambient air temperature is 3 degrees then during the cold months the ground temperature will probably be lower, i.e. possibly zero.
My front temp sensor was broken off my car for 3 months... The car says -40 all the time... But no sound!
Got it fixed last week... And i agree its annoying!
Its in the front bumper... Passenger side in the corner... 2 secs to disconnect.
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Got it fixed last week... And i agree its annoying!
Its in the front bumper... Passenger side in the corner... 2 secs to disconnect.
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