Beeps 3 quick times sometimes
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If you get out of the car and don't close the door (for example, run back into the house for something you forgot) and then return and close the door, it will beep 3 times because it thinks you closed the door and left the fob in the car. It does not recognize that you are sitting in the seat. It just knows that the door was open and now shut with the fob inside.
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Unfortunately I already thought of that and dismissed it since I always close the door when I get out, but occasionally it immediately beeps 3 times...even before I can walk away. Can't for the life of me figure out why.
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have the same thing with my wifes '12 GS....no rhyme or reason with one particular FOB....sometimes it beeps sometimes not....could be a week in between ....my 07Z has never done that
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Personally I think it is a problem with the car, because I have not left the fob in it, and I don't have time to get away with my driving fob, but it occasionally beeps 3 quick times. Just wondering if anyone else has that problem, or maybe there is a setting I have not found. Any ideas?
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occasionally beeps 3 quick times. Just wondering if anyone else has that problem, or maybe there is a setting I have not found.
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Push the button low on the left side of the dash next to the hatch release to turn off the motion detector! (Been there, done that!)
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My 16 is also doing this inconsistently but a bit more then once in a while. . Used. To be once in awhile but is more often now . Not really a bother but a wander why ?
I would not want to turn off the motion senser. .. I let folks think it is an alarm of sorts....
I would not want to turn off the motion senser. .. I let folks think it is an alarm of sorts....
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Dracla, don't feel like the only one. Once in a while mine does exactly the same thing for no apparent reason (no person or fob left in car, door not left open, ect). Sometimes its when I get in, othertimes its as I exit the car, although it seems to happen more often when I get in. I would say this happens at most 0nce per week. i have a 2016 1LT Coupe.
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Mine would always chirp when I exited the car in my garage as it is a narrow one car garage and I could never step far enough away from the car when getting out------with the fob in my right pocket, the darn chirping------when on the Forum someone told us to put the fob in our left pockets we thought he was kidding----but it worked!
I kid you not.
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Yes, it's all about proximity. If I linger near the door when I close it, it will triple-beep. Close the door as you're turning and walking away and no beep. The feature can be turned off but I'd rather know if I really did leave the fob in the car.
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This has come up many times over the past several years------the solution for about 99% of the time------and you can laugh, etc., but I am not pulling your leg-------put the fob in your left pants or jacket pocket. When the fob is in the right pocket of your pants of coat, when you exit, the car sensor picks up on it as if you left the fob in the car----and it will beep 3 times and scare the heck out of you while everyone in ear shot looks at like you are a nut showing off his car.
Mine would always chirp when I exited the car in my garage as it is a narrow one car garage and I could never step far enough away from the car when getting out------with the fob in my right pocket, the darn chirping------when on the Forum someone told us to put the fob in our left pockets we thought he was kidding----but it worked!
I kid you not.
Mine would always chirp when I exited the car in my garage as it is a narrow one car garage and I could never step far enough away from the car when getting out------with the fob in my right pocket, the darn chirping------when on the Forum someone told us to put the fob in our left pockets we thought he was kidding----but it worked!
I kid you not.
It makes sense that left pocket will move the fob farther away allowing the car to sense the fob as being outside the car. I'm not sure how far near proximity communications reaches or how reliable it is when the car is trying to determine exactly where the fob is.
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Every morning I come out from the gym, open the hatch, put my gym bag in, close the hatch, open the drivers door and get the beeping, not the three beeps, that are intermittent, but constant bong, bong bong. I get in, start the car and it stops.
I get used to it, like my dog wagging her tail, it just happens.
I get used to it, like my dog wagging her tail, it just happens.
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Very interesting observation. I also get the occasional beep, most often when I have sat in the car to retrieve something. My thinking has been that the car sensed the fob when I was inside the car yet didn't, or at least not yet, sensed the fob has been moved to outside the car and the door closed. When this happens the car has not been started and has not been locked, which confuses my logic. It makes sense that left pocket will move the fob farther away allowing the car to sense the fob as being outside the car. I'm not sure how far near proximity communications reaches or how reliable it is when the car is trying to determine exactly where the fob is.
It makes sense that left pocket will move the fob farther away allowing the car to sense the fob as being outside the car. I'm not sure how far near proximity communications reaches or how reliable it is when the car is trying to determine exactly where the fob is.