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Matt Taylor (Whodatmatt)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 12:05 pm: | 
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I know this is the kind of vague crap that doesn't get much response around here, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
An annoying ticking from the passenger footwell began a week or so ago. I turned the radio louder, but I could still hear it and it wasn't going away. I turned the fan up and it went away, but would come back whenever the fan wasn't on four, or maybe I just couldn't hear it as good.
Anyway, I hadn't had a chance to look at it yet, and it was driving me and my girlfriend nuts, so I told her to kick it. She did and it stopped, but then my turnsignals came on and wouldn't go off. I laughed, told her to kick it again, and it started clicking and the signals went off. Note: her last name is not Fonzarelli.
Later, trying to lock the doors with the remote produce no results. So I started thinking the little mystery was clearing up bit. Got home, pulled the fuse that corresponded with door locks (sat. b, fuse 4) and changed it even though it looked fine.
All problems solved (I think, for the time being).
Any thoughts on this? |
Rob Davison (Pokerob)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 12:15 pm: |
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you have an inertia sensor under the hood. it is used to dissable the engine and door locks in an accident. sometimes if you hit a bump hard it will just set off the flashers, which is controlled buy a relay under the passenger side relay.. it is mechanical and gives off an annoying clicking sound syncopated with the flashing.
if you push on the hazard button, does the sound come back, do they still work?
i'd reset the inertia sensor, under the hood along the fire wall pass side. while the car is off push the button in a few times and maybe it will clean out and debris that might have helped cause the issue. |
Jim
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 12:17 pm: |
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I'd say it was a fluke that it stopped after replacing the fuse and it'll happen again. It sounds like one of the relays behind the glove box or behind the trim piece to the right of the passenger footwell is flaking out.
(probably nothing you didn't already know but, hey, at least somebody responded right?)
-Jim |
Matt Taylor (Whodatmatt)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 12:22 pm: |
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I think it is a bad relay, the noise from the passenger footwell sounds like the noise the realy under the hood was making when the ground for my Hellas came loose. |
Matt Taylor (Whodatmatt)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 12:25 pm: |
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BTW, thanks for the responses. Rob, I thought of the inertia sensor, but I thought that if it was tripped I'd get shut down, I didn't know that it could just set off the flashers. Thanks for the input, I'll reset it before I leave work.
Jim- I love a fluke fix, don't you? It's like magic. |
Robert Sublett (Rubisco98)
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 01:01 pm: |
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Matt, I realized a ticking sound from down there but only when in park. I turned off the cruise control switch and the clicking stopped. Still does this on occasion. It may in fact be ticking down there all the time but my rig is so loud I may only hear it in park. Just a guess.. Later.. Rob |
95D1
| | Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 11:45 pm: |
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FYI, two different inertia sensors:
1) The one under the hood only shuts off the fuel pump; it has nothing to do with the flashers, and resetting it will do nothing for flasher issues.
2) The one in the alarm ECU under the dash trips the flashers and unlocks the doors, but does not deactivate the fuel pump. I believe the only way to reset it is to turn off the ignition switch and then restart the engine. |
Tom V (Cozmo)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 12:16 am: |
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Matt
Ever read any Poe, The Tale Tell Heart I think was the title......is there something burried in your Rover |
Matt Taylor (Whodatmatt)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 11:46 am: |
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If I squeeze into the passenger footwell and unpiece all the trim and a frazzlin black cat comes barreling out of there, I'll probably have a heart attack.
So I think I have an alrm ECU issue. Thanks for the responses. I haven't had time to get under there yet, I'm trying to buy a house.
BTW, do realys make noise? Or am I retarded? Both are possibilities. |
Tom V (Cozmo)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 08:58 pm: |
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Hey Matt just checked out your profile and you know what I'm in Metarie. Where yat.
Tom |
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