Question to owner of a FL vRS.......

 

Whilst cleaning the car over the weekend I kept on hearing a random bong after 30 mins.....Now the radio was off....nothing was plugged in to the 12v sockets and the keys were on the dash and not in the ignition..... I had this ages ago but no warning lights come up on the dash.... I did hear it coiuld be a battery warning..... Now its 3 years old and the battery looks in good nick.....haven't tried the Voltage test yet.....any body else had this....

I used to get this when I cleaned the interior of the car after my week on at work. I took it as a warning the battery was getting low, as it had not been getting used enough to charge the battery fully.

I haven't heard it now that I use the car more regularly.

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Mine does it too and I'm pretty sure it's battery related. My battery seems to show just under 12v and between 13.8 and 14.1 with the engine running - I would have expected that to be more like 14.5 and wondering if the battery is going to need replacing soon.

Battery warning

I had a feeling it would be battery related. I think maybe i will pop and get a new one before the winter sets in....

ECP are doing a great deal at the moment.....really really cheap....I think it end today with regards to the deals...

There'll be a new deal starting tomorrow!

I gonna wait till then....

My car has been making the "bong" noise for 18 months and until now i didn't have a clue what it was!

It is a strange one if im honest......got it a couple of months back and it did it then whilst i was playing the radio during cleaning the car.....then once in poland i had a random alarm go off......never again since......Only last weekend bong went off again........will be getting a cheap volt meter this weekend for other purposes and will test.....

Never knew you'd get a bong for low battery - there you go!

 

I've managed to drain the battery a couple of times with CANBUS controller tweaking and gateway issues, and never had this. Would have been useful actually, so I knew I'd got it wrong before the battery completed drained!