I picked up my 1.2 lounge in August and am loving it - but it beeps about four times when I turn the ignition off and take the keys out. I keep thinking it's because I've left the lights on - but I haven't. Am I missing something obvious??
General Beeping when the car is turned off?
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General Beeping when the car is turned off?
have a look at the speedo there will be a warning message
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Is it a Dualogic? If so, you must leave it in "drive" or "reverse" NOT "neutral". Switching off with it in neutral will cause it to beep.
Listen Rob, if I catch you telling someone to use their own initiative again I'm going to get Venters to ban you!
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To the OP, PLEASE have a read through your manual, there is soooooo much useful stuff in there which you really should know.....
Robin - it is a dualogic! Many thanks I'll try that....I generally drive automatics so am likely to leave it in neutral....I'll check tonight on the way home.
Cheers
Robin - it is a dualogic! Many thanks I'll try that....I generally drive automatics so am likely to leave it in neutral....I'll check tonight on the way home.
Cheers
So what happens to the car when you don't quite put the handbrake on 100%? Putting an auto in neutral, isn't that a fail on a driving test?
That will be it, you have to leave the dualogic in gear when you park. It will automatically go to neutral when you start the car, even though the lever maybe in reverse etc.
Also if you have it in gear and get off the seat, it will go into neutral with the engine running. I found that out while trying to get my wallet out of my back pocket.
Also if you have it in gear and get off the seat, it will go into neutral with the engine running. I found that out while trying to get my wallet out of my back pocket.
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I thought you had to leave autos in Park (if a proper auto) and not Neutral.
I used to drive a selespeed (like a Dualogic) and I always left it in Reverse Or 1st - and this would stop the beeping when turning off the engine.
I used to drive a selespeed (like a Dualogic) and I always left it in Reverse Or 1st - and this would stop the beeping when turning off the engine.
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Whilst Maxi is right that the manual would have been a good place to look to resolve this issue (and I am surprised you have not been unnerved enough to do so if your car has beeped at you every time you turned it off since you bought it in August!) I am also astonished that your dealer did not tell you about this when he handed the car over.
As you say, to anyone used to an auto, leaving it in "drive" is totally counter-intuitive and really should be about the first thing they showed you.
I have heard it said that leaving it in neutral does not actually do any harm. I'd love to know from the Fiat techs on here if they agree with that or not. It sounds unlikely given that the car is designed to beep if you do it - one would think that there would be a good reason for that...
As you say, to anyone used to an auto, leaving it in "drive" is totally counter-intuitive and really should be about the first thing they showed you.
I have heard it said that leaving it in neutral does not actually do any harm. I'd love to know from the Fiat techs on here if they agree with that or not. It sounds unlikely given that the car is designed to beep if you do it - one would think that there would be a good reason for that...
I would suspect it's nothing to do with it causing harm to the gearbox, but purely so that the car doesn't roll downhill if the handbrake is left off.
I don't have the photo handy of what happened to our garden wall, but imagine a green Mk1 Renno Megane beached on top of the bottom row of blocks of a garden wall half in and half out of a garden and you're there.
Dopey cow didn't put her handbrake on properly and didn't leave the car in gear either and the result was predictable. The 500 can be held on some pretty impressive inclines by just being in gear, not that you'd do that of course, but if your handbrake lets go it'll hold the car there or at least slow its progress.
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Yes guys but the duallogic is not really a normal auto like a dsg or the old school torque stuff, its an electrohydraulic manual or something. As a result it has no P or D it just has in gear, neutral or reverse. When I first got the car i also kept it in netural when parked with handbrake on because i did not know any better and of course it beeped. Then I realised i should treat it like a manual and leave the car parked 'in gear' with the handbrake optional auto style (if its a hill i use it if its a flat i do not as the difs are locked and there is no hill)
Thanks for the help - I am also now officially a dopey cow! Left it in gear, no beeping. And yes, I should have read the manual.....and the chap at the garage mentioned something about the gears/neutral/starting/stopping - but I had my awesome stereo to try out so I must confess to not listening particularly well :shrug:.
I realise this will make all you blokes swear and cuss - so I'll just say cheers for the advice................. and enjoy the peace when I park up.
I realise this will make all you blokes swear and cuss - so I'll just say cheers for the advice................. and enjoy the peace when I park up
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All I can say is:
Thanks for the help - I am also now officially a dopey cow! Left it in gear, no beeping. And yes, I should have read the manual.....and the chap at the garage mentioned something about the gears/neutral/starting/stopping - but I had my awesome stereo to try out so I must confess to not listening particularly well :shrug:.
I realise this will make all you blokes swear and cuss - so I'll just say cheers for the advice................. and enjoy the peace when I park up
Next time someone hands over something to you which could potentially kill someone please listen rather than being distracted by stereo's and other crap. For the sake of everyone, yourself included. Driving a car is not a joke.
Calm down dear, my last post was supposed to be jocular.....(as was the start of this reply which should be read in your best Michael Winner voice - and so is supposed to be ironic).
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Don't worry, he doesn't do "jocular" or "ironic"....
The rest of us are quite nice!!!
Don't listen to Engineered, he's just got his tights in a twist because he, like you was driving his car wrong but unlike yourself, he didn't take it in a good natured and good mannered way.
As always my sarcasm/humour detector was in the shop for repair and I didn't pick up on what you were trying to say. My bad.
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Shame you don't actually READ postings.
(it would be rather difficult to use the clutch wrongly in a Dualogic)
It's amazing you can buy a chain saw without any explanation and the odds of you cutting off your leg are very high, yet nobody seems to worry about it.
But with a car they make you sign a hand over to say you understand the controls and you have at least had to do a driving test before you drive off by yourself.
But with a car they make you sign a hand over to say you understand the controls and you have at least had to do a driving test before you drive off by yourself.
