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[damitzmike]

A few weeks ago my car started having a weird problem. 1st problem is the bong noise when you have a door open stays on when the doors are closed unless you put the interior lights in the off position. Even while in the off position it still bongs when the glove box door is open.

2nd problem is interior lights do not work just ones on the headliner. all gauges and center console still light up.

3rd problem is my obd port does not work either.

anyone know what could cause this a fuse maybe? my only guess is when I redid my headliner I had disconnected the wires that go into the flip down mirrors and maybe did not get them back in right.

Edited by damitzmike, 16 March 2010 - 11:52 PM.

[(n)A-GAME]

Maybe someone else can chime in for the other problems, but if the door chime is bothering you it's very easy to take out. Just pull the driver's side kick panel out and it's a blue (I think) relay-looking thing up where all of the other relays are.

[Turbosleeper]

As noted, I believe it is the blue relay aswell. Remove kickpanel, remove relay and if memory serves it says on the relay what it does.
As far as obdII port is concerned, slide it to the left and pull it up and check if the wires are connected.

[damitzmike]

yeh removing the door chime wouldnt be a bad idea cause its annoying either way, but any idea on the lights not coming on?

[BEJinFBK]

Have you checked all of your fuses?

[Bah]

Fuse #15 is your verdict.

Glove box door being open makes me think glovebox light has a short. Go check it out. I'm assuming if you press in the black switch for the light, the dinging goes off right?

It's possible on the sunvisors..i'm gonna have to tackle that myself after the sh*t i'm going through with fuse 15 =p

Fuse 15 controls wayyyyy too much...it does diagnostic controller too
Does Door lock knowledge (if its blown, it doesn't know the door is closed)
Its supposed to do the radio, but, my radio works with it out lmfao...
The splash lights in the door when you open it(check those out)
Does all the overhead dome lighting as well.

This is what i ended up doing..taking out fuse 17 or 18 or w/e for the bing bong, and #15 since it was already blown.

Hopefully it's just the sunvisor in your case and hopefully the screws aren't cross threaded cause some a$$kid who did you headliner can't use power tools for jack =p

But anyways..give #15 a look over. my money is on its blown. And you'll put another one in and it'll blow right away again Then the fun begins.

Bah, on 17 March 2010 - 05:56 AM, said:

Fuse #15 is your verdict.

Glove box door being open makes me think glovebox light has a short. Go check it out. I'm assuming if you press in the black switch for the light, the dinging goes off right?

It's possible on the sunvisors..i'm gonna have to tackle that myself after the sh*t i'm going through with fuse 15 =p

Fuse 15 controls wayyyyy too much...it does diagnostic controller too
Does Door lock knowledge (if its blown, it doesn't know the door is closed)
Its supposed to do the radio, but, my radio works with it out lmfao...
The splash lights in the door when you open it(check those out)
Does all the overhead dome lighting as well.

This is what i ended up doing..taking out fuse 17 or 18 or w/e for the bing bong, and #15 since it was already blown.

Hopefully it's just the sunvisor in your case and hopefully the screws aren't cross threaded cause some a$$kid who did you headliner can't use power tools for jack =p

But anyways..give #15 a look over. my money is on its blown. And you'll put another one in and it'll blow right away again Then the fun begins.

and because it doesn't know the drivers door is closed, it thinks it is opened. Therefore you get bing bing bing =p

[helveta]

seen this on 98 s70 awd if you close the door hard, no chime. i think lube latch assembly and check striker adjustment

[zomaster]

waking up a old thread, but my problem is/was very similar to this-- my #15 was blowing constantly with engine running or not. after much testing and frustration it turned out to have something to do with the central locking relay. i unplugged it, plugged back, and circuit wouldn't blow instantly anymore--for a while. problem seemed to come back (alarm would again go off for no apparent reason) even with a different relay. now i am having a major electrical short problem and it might be related but haven't fixed it yet. i can see sparks/arcing from my airbox shield to the body but need to find what wire is touching that shield, or what other metal is passing current through to the shield; when i push the shield to make full contact with the body the car dies instantly. probably wouldn't have even noticed if i wasn't trying to get a jump so late at night...
can't wait to troubleshoot this after work today in 12F weather!

[zomaster]

...turns out some wires going to the msd iginition were being crimped enough to make the short. i moved and straightened the wires, and the problem hasn't returned. will properly rewire when i get new wire and it's warmer out.