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Chiming Won't Stop 850 1997

Valvo--I had a similar problem with my 97 850 after I had been working on it. I climbed in, and the door/key/belt or whatever chime, wouldn't go off. I took it back to service, and this ripoff service dealer informed me that the sensor in the door was stuck, and that to change this sensor out was going to cost me about $300 US (not Australian). I was shipping the car to Norway for my wife, and was in a real sweat to get it fixed. I asked the service manager to ask the mechanic (he wouldn't let me go back and speak directly) how to turn off the chime before I went nuts. I got a bunch of muddled instructions about the chime being somewhere under the dash, so I drove home depressed and went to bed. While lying there,I kind of went over the day and events, as to what caused that chime to keep ringing. I drug out my worthless Haynes manual and looked, and something caught my idea to the effect that the door/key/seat belt chime and glovebox light were on the same circut. I went out and popped open the glovebox. No light. Checked the fuse under the hood for that common circuit. Burned. It also, incidentally, controlled the overhead lights. I had just changed out one of the bulbs in the overhead by the mirror. A little bell went off. I took off the light cover, and looked at the bulb I had replace, and I noticed it was stuck in further than the one that used to come on. A check revealed I had pushed that little bulb in too far and had shorted it, which blew the fuse. Don't ask me why the chime went off continuously when the fuse burned--some reverse safety feature, probably, but I felt like going back and giving that ripoff service dealer hell for trying to take advantage of my ignorance. In short, check your fuses for the door ciruit. If your overhead lights don't come on, as well as your glovebox, look for a short in one of your lights. This is the best I can do. Good luck! Dick






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