couple of oddities??

[greenfintry]

Just been up in the Highlands (note no midges yet), but had a couple of questions that would be nice to have an answer for:

The van makes the occasional melodic bong for no very obvious reason... I think only when the sound system is on, it is the VW sat nav fitted version, not sure if it might be TP dropping in and out... is there a way to stop the alerts if that is indeed the cause??


Also, looking up at the roof in the roof tent bit, there are 4 little black ring eyes that look like they might be intended for a mess holder thing or similar? Would be useful if such a string bag existed, but I have not seen one when trawling Brandrup etc??

Thanks for any info!

 

[HistoryBob]

The rings in the roof are to hold the child safety net I think.

 

[owen_h]

The 'bong' could be a warning that you have reached a preset speed. On mine when you scroll round the screens on the multifunctional display there is one titled speed warning or something similar. (set to "---" for me). Does it always happen at a certain speed?

 

[greenfintry]

No I have had that noise, more of a ching than a bong!! This one seems unrelated to any obvious thing I am doing, and it doesn't give any sort of warning anywhere (unlike the speed one!)

All a bit weird frankly!

 

[Californiaman]

Did you have something on the passenger seat? I think mine had bonged when it thought something on the passenger seat was a passenger without a seat belt!

 

[greenfintry]

Mostly my wife or me!! But belted up all the time......

 

[James]

The bong could be the temperature warning - it bongs below 4 (I think)

James

 

[greenfintry]

Thanks for all the hints.... but no we have had the temp one and it is of the ching variety!!

cheers! Keep up the ideas please!

 

[owen_h]

Speed camera warning possibly?

 

[Andy]

Speed camera warning possibly?

VW RNS do not give any speed camera warnings.

 

[Tayls]

Dropped a gong?

Ian

 

[Ewan]

I've had chat loud 'bong' just recently. The TP dropping out sounds a likely explanation - I didn't understand what it was at the time and it only happened once. It's nothing to do with satnav since we don't have that. All I can suggest to stop it is to switch the TP off.