Anyone notice this "feature"?
05-03-05, 02:23 PM
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Anyone notice this "feature"?
Try this in your new GS..
After driving from one place to another, put the vehicle in park (with the engine still running), then open the drivers door and then shutoff the engine.. You'll get a ding-ding-ding chime going off for some reason. Now, close the door (again, with the engine off still) and you'll hear some sort of solenoid or small motor doing something for a split-second after which the chime shuts off..
The sound is NOT the steering wheel moving out of the way as that was done when you opened the door.. Any ideas? Just an oddity I noticed..
After driving from one place to another, put the vehicle in park (with the engine still running), then open the drivers door and then shutoff the engine.. You'll get a ding-ding-ding chime going off for some reason. Now, close the door (again, with the engine off still) and you'll hear some sort of solenoid or small motor doing something for a split-second after which the chime shuts off..
The sound is NOT the steering wheel moving out of the way as that was done when you opened the door.. Any ideas? Just an oddity I noticed..
05-03-05, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by osx-addict
Try this in your new GS..
After driving from one place to another, put the vehicle in park (with the engine still running), then open the drivers door and then shutoff the engine.. You'll get a ding-ding-ding chime going off for some reason. Now, close the door (again, with the engine off still) and you'll hear some sort of solenoid or small motor doing something for a split-second after which the chime shuts off..
The sound is NOT the steering wheel moving out of the way as that was done when you opened the door.. Any ideas? Just an oddity I noticed..
After driving from one place to another, put the vehicle in park (with the engine still running), then open the drivers door and then shutoff the engine.. You'll get a ding-ding-ding chime going off for some reason. Now, close the door (again, with the engine off still) and you'll hear some sort of solenoid or small motor doing something for a split-second after which the chime shuts off..
The sound is NOT the steering wheel moving out of the way as that was done when you opened the door.. Any ideas? Just an oddity I noticed..
There is so much new Technology in this car that we may never know what all the different sounds are. I guess we shouldn't worry until a new sound starts to develop
05-04-05, 07:03 AM
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Another interesting sound comes from the rear of the car approximately 5 hours after the car is shutoff. Apparently it's the system cleaning the fuel lines or something. Interesting technology indeed...
05-04-05, 09:18 AM
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke 
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05-04-05, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by shimmers
Another interesting sound comes from the rear of the car approximately 5 hours after the car is shutoff. Apparently it's the system cleaning the fuel lines or something. Interesting technology indeed...
05-04-05, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by shimmers
Another interesting sound comes from the rear of the car approximately 5 hours after the car is shutoff. Apparently it's the system cleaning the fuel lines or something. Interesting technology indeed...
05-05-05, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by osx-addict
Yeah, I read that on the sticker of a GS300 at a dealer lot just below the pricing sheet.. It's some sort of test to check that the fuel system is properly venting and runs ~5 hours after the car was shut off.. I don't think I'll wait around to see if it's timer is correct..
I predict the next GS will drive itself
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05-05-05, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke (The best science fiction writer ever IMHO and an amazing scientist too).
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05-06-05, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by TheSupe87
Hmm, could be an alarm system sylenoid or something - cars have all kinds of weird noises, now that they're 95% computer and robotics....ha 
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