I have had my PHEV for 4 weeks and it has recently started giving a long beep followed by four high pitched short beeps, everytime I turn the car on and when I slow right down, or stop and start again. There are no warning signs/symbols. Can anyone throw a light on what this means? The garage I bought the car from has no idea.
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Well... I can't find a table of Mitsubishi error tones anywhere on the net, hopefully someone else will post one on the forum.
However, it is possible that you are getting more than one error there.
The satnav gives of a single low tone "bong" when approaching a curve.
The only visible indicator is a little exclamation mark, inside I yellow diamond, that appears on the top of the map screen.
This happens if the satnav thinks you're going to fast for an approaching curve. (As far as I can see, it is VERY conservative)
You can turn that off by getting into the Nav menus:
NAVI MENU key
Type
Guidance
Curve Guidance (set to off)
The other one could be the seatbelt warning...
Any chance that you're putting something on one of the seats?
It's also possible that you're getting a warning sound, because an indicator light is faulty (I have no idea if our cars do that or not).
One way to check that is to ensure that all indicators are lit when you first turn on the car.
Similarly, could be a door open warning.
I have found that many of the warning symbols are really subtle. If you are getting the warning while stopped, look hard at all the symbols on the dash. The door warnings are indicated by a single line, on the car icon, intended to show that a door is open.
Similarly the sonar alarms are a tiny graphic which indicates the sensor that is triggering. (Little lines being emitted from the car icon)
However, it is possible that you are getting more than one error there.
The satnav gives of a single low tone "bong" when approaching a curve.
The only visible indicator is a little exclamation mark, inside I yellow diamond, that appears on the top of the map screen.
This happens if the satnav thinks you're going to fast for an approaching curve. (As far as I can see, it is VERY conservative)
You can turn that off by getting into the Nav menus:
NAVI MENU key
Type
Guidance
Curve Guidance (set to off)
The other one could be the seatbelt warning...
Any chance that you're putting something on one of the seats?
It's also possible that you're getting a warning sound, because an indicator light is faulty (I have no idea if our cars do that or not).
One way to check that is to ensure that all indicators are lit when you first turn on the car.
Similarly, could be a door open warning.
I have found that many of the warning symbols are really subtle. If you are getting the warning while stopped, look hard at all the symbols on the dash. The door warnings are indicated by a single line, on the car icon, intended to show that a door is open.
Similarly the sonar alarms are a tiny graphic which indicates the sensor that is triggering. (Little lines being emitted from the car icon)
Maybe we should start a list of audible warnings and get one of the admins to paste it up as a sticky topic?
Some examples to start:
Audible Warning When it happens Explanation
Single Chime After pushing the start button Ready to start
High pitch, rapid triple beep, after pushing the start button and trying to select Drive or Reverse - Not ready for Drive or Reverse yet.
Six pairs of chimes (ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding) after pushing the start button - someone is not wearing their seat belt.
Continuous single chimes - Door open (check dashboard to see which one)
Really loud external triple beep, three sets of three - the car is still turned on, and you have taken the keyfob away!
Mysterious low bong sound while driving - satnav things you're going too fast for the approaching corner
Machine-gun staccato beeps when trying to lock the car - one of the doors is open.
Hmm... the forum says that BBCode is on, but I couldn't format the above as a table...
Some examples to start:
Audible Warning When it happens Explanation
Single Chime After pushing the start button Ready to start
High pitch, rapid triple beep, after pushing the start button and trying to select Drive or Reverse - Not ready for Drive or Reverse yet.
Six pairs of chimes (ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding) after pushing the start button - someone is not wearing their seat belt.
Continuous single chimes - Door open (check dashboard to see which one)
Really loud external triple beep, three sets of three - the car is still turned on, and you have taken the keyfob away!
Mysterious low bong sound while driving - satnav things you're going too fast for the approaching corner
Machine-gun staccato beeps when trying to lock the car - one of the doors is open.
Hmm... the forum says that BBCode is on, but I couldn't format the above as a table...
Yay! The admins have turned on table formatting for us!
| Audible Warning | When it happens | Explanation |
| Single Chime | After pushing the start button | PHEV is ready to start moving |
| High pitch, rapid triple beep | After pushing the start button and trying to select Drive or Reverse | Not ready for Drive or Reverse yet |
| Six pairs of chimes | After pushing the start button | A seat is occupied, but the seat belt is not fastened |
| Continuously repeating single chimes | After pushing the start button | A door is not properly closed (check dashboard to see which one) |
| Really loud external triple beep, three sets of three | The car is still turned on, and someone leaves the vehicle | Keyfob is no longer in range |
| Mysterious low bong sound while driving | When approaching a curve in the road | satnav thinks you're going too fast for the approaching corner |
| Machine-gun staccato beeps | When trying to lock the car | one of the doors is not properly closed |
Claymore
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Wislon said:
Might be useful to know exact model you have and year of manufacture.
JimB
OK. I'm definitely stumped.
I have an after market tyre pressure monitoring system, and that cheerfully wakes up with a very high pitched sound like that, except it does a single high pitched beep.
I'm wracking my brains, wondering if there's anything that would announce itself with a morse code TH.
Is there any chance that it's a device that someone has left in the car?
Something along the lines of a child's toy, hand held GPS, fit-bit, that kind of thing?
I have an after market tyre pressure monitoring system, and that cheerfully wakes up with a very high pitched sound like that, except it does a single high pitched beep.
I'm wracking my brains, wondering if there's anything that would announce itself with a morse code TH.
Is there any chance that it's a device that someone has left in the car?
Something along the lines of a child's toy, hand held GPS, fit-bit, that kind of thing?
Must be some sort of retrofitted hardware. Perhaps parking sensors, tire monitors e.t.c.
Can you locate where its coming from? The speakers or some separate buzzer?
Also check the fuse box in the lower part of the dash for signs of retrofitted hardware.
Can you locate where its coming from? The speakers or some separate buzzer?
Also check the fuse box in the lower part of the dash for signs of retrofitted hardware.
4 days ago I started having one long beep followed by two short high pitch beeps. when driving it keeps happening.. when turning off the front parking sensors, the beeps disappear...
still getting it on starting the car...
Yes I agree it might be the parking sensors
still getting it on starting the car...
Yes I agree it might be the parking sensors
Ours suddenly developed a strange pattern of beeps on significant acceleration or deceleration - had me really puzzled. Then, a few days later, I was loading shopping into the back, moved a bag that I had put in there the previosu week and got exactly the same pattern. I looked inside and discovered a smoke alarm that I had removed from our boat - something else was pressing against the "test button" and each acceleration was shifting the bag enough to press the button and make it go through a self-test!
michael8554
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Recently the car started beeping "beep-beep, beep-beep....." when driven.
Searching has shown there's no official list of sounds, there is a compilation of deciphered sounds earlier in this thread.
Turned out to be due to a map book on the rear passenger seat that's been stored there for years.
The seat occupancy lights on the dash indicated that the rear passenger seats were occupied, but that always went out when the car was driven, and never beeped.
The occurence of the beeping was random, some drives it was there, some drives not.
Book removed, seat occupancy lights are off, and no more beeps !
Michael
Searching has shown there's no official list of sounds, there is a compilation of deciphered sounds earlier in this thread.
Turned out to be due to a map book on the rear passenger seat that's been stored there for years.
The seat occupancy lights on the dash indicated that the rear passenger seats were occupied, but that always went out when the car was driven, and never beeped.
The occurence of the beeping was random, some drives it was there, some drives not.
Book removed, seat occupancy lights are off, and no more beeps !
Michael
