buzzer

[germag]

Just picked up a Bongo and no electric mirror or ciggy socket working.
Fuse no 8 blown, replaced fuse and all ok except i have a continuous buzzer going off under the dashboard.
Pulled no 8 fuse and the buzzer stopped and so have the mirrors and ciggy socket.

Anyone have any idea what is making the buzzing sound?

Thanks in advance.

Gerald

[mikeonb4c]

Just picked up a Bongo and no electric mirror or ciggy socket working.
Fuse no 8 blown, replaced fuse and all ok except i have a continuous buzzer going off under the dashboard.
Pulled no 8 fuse and the buzzer stopped and so have the mirrors and ciggy socket.

Anyone have any idea what is making the buzzing sound?

Thanks in advance.

Gerald

Fuse no 8 by the sound of it, hence why someone removed it ha ha. But seriously, the Bongo has many beeps but no buzzers, as far as i'm aware. So I guess it must be something non-standard. Can you find the buzzer and identify relevant wiring. Geoff (g8dh or summat like that) is our resident wiring guru and may have a thought on this.

[Driver+Passengers]

What is the pattern of sound the buzzer makes?

Is it coming from the driver's side just to the right of the accelerator?

Is there a low coolant alarm fitted?

[germag]

Thanks for a guick reply.
The sound is a continuous beep coming from under the left side of dashboard.
I think there is a low coolant alarm fitted as there is a single red wire on water bottle between high and low level
There is no sign of a warning light on the dashboard anywhere.

Hope this helps.

[Driver+Passengers]

Thanks for a guick reply.
The sound is a continuous beep coming from under the left side of dashboard.
I think there is a low coolant alarm fitted as there is a single red wire on water bottle between high and low level
There is no sign of a warning light on the dashboard anywhere.

Hope this helps.

Remove the glove box. There is a 2 inch rubber bung up under towards the left that leads through to the front, just behind the coolant header tank. If there is a wire coming through that grommet, then try tracing it.

[germag]

Please bear with but it looks like spaghetti in there.

Red wire from expansion tank comes through bulkhead and is connected to a rocker switch o n the dashboard.

Second yellow wire from switch on dash goes to a black box behind glove box.

Two smaller gauge wires red and black come out of black box and are scotchlocked
To larger gauge red and black respectively .

That's as far as I,ve got

Does that make any sense to anyone.

[germag]

Sorry forgot to say that by flicking the rocker switch the noise stops.

[mikeWalsall]

Strange if it is the low coolant alarm, to why anyone would fit a switch in the circuit to turn it off ..!!

[g8dhe]

Sounds a non-standard addition, and it isn't the "normal" i.e. Haydn's - type of Low Coolant Alarm either!
There have been some very basic Low Coolant Alarms marketed that are just a Buzzer fed by a transistor- sometimes with an LED, and use a couple of screw in probes on the tank. It sounds as if it might be one of them which someone has put a switch in to disable it ... I can guess why!

[germag]

Yes I think your right inside the black box is a small buzzer and a circuit board.

Can anyone tell me where I can buy the real thing.

Thanks to all.
Gerald

[Driver+Passengers]

Have you checked your coolant level when cold?

Dip it with a lolly stick or coffee stirrer, you should have a couple of centimeters in there.

[germag]

When picked up the bingo this morning there was about an inch of coolant measured of a stick.
Does that sound right.

[Driver+Passengers]

When picked up the bingo this morning there was about an inch of coolant measured of a stick.
Does that sound right.

About right, I think.

[g8dhe]

Can anyone tell me where I can buy the real thing.

See here http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 86#p568686 there is a link at the bottom of Haydn post.

[germag]

Thanks to everyone for your help,have ordered a haydn coolant alarm tonight.