I had mycluster out to install the sport mode light and move my speedometer needle to correct the speed. I had my console apart to add a power outlet to the passenger side and a double switch for sport mode and DSC. While things were apart I pulled the glove box and installed the factory alarm.
The alarm works, the new DSC/sport mode works. I have one more mod I want to make for which I'm still waiting on parts. My glove box is still out and the console is loose. The knee protection panel is out.
When I put the speedo cluster back in my chime module started producing a steady tone. The idiot lights light like normal when the key is first turned and the car starts and runs fine. The only way I've been able to silence the tone is disconnect the chime module.
Any ideas what set it off and how to get it to stop?
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im sure im wrong but maybe your getting voltage feedback to the chime from the extra wires you added and so on, if so you could add a diode to keep the juice from flowing back to the chime circut
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So far nothing has really changed... The cigarette lighter is just moved to the side. I installed the bulb and the pin/wire for the sport mode light but haven't installed the circuit so the wire isn't connected. I already ran the sport mode mod and just moved it to another switch. The only thing different about the DSC is that I'm not using the lighted switch but a second momentary in the same housing as the new sport mode switch. The DSC acts just like it always has.
One other thing I didn't mention in the earlier post: I started the car and drove it in and out of the garage without the instrument cluster installed. Could that have tripped an error condition that needs to be reset? Like I said, though, once I disconnect the chime module the car drives fine with no idiot lights or any other indication anything is amiss.
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Is that teeny little odometer tamper light on? If you drove it without the cluster in, the car may have triggered a fault when the instument cluster reads a different mileage from one of the other places that stores mileage ...
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Quote: I assume that the chime module is chiming with the car shut off too. The chime module is powered with a hot at all times line.
The chime module is looking for a ground on pin 2 of its connector.
Pin 2 of this connector is 1000 Hz tone 3 (T3). The ground comes from the cluster connector X17-pin9. This ground is normally not constant when active (key gong).
This pin is right next to the one you added for the sport light (normal fog position) X17-pin8. What part number pin did you use adding pin 8? Somehow, you now have a constant ground on the chime module T3 line.
Try removing pin 9 from the X17 connector (plug the connector back in). If the chime stops, the ground is coming from the cluster. If it doesn't, somehow the T3 line going to the chime module got grounded.
You did a lot of things. Doing one mod at a time makes it easier if things don't work out.
Connect to:
http://www.unofficialbmw.com/e36/int...oil_alert.html
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Quote: That did it! Thanks!
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