Re: RAV4 - Annoying beep noise

"Nick Trounson" <hahaha@yougottabejokin.com> wrote:
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>"Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:4ocUc.24110$nx2.21346@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...[color=green]
>> If it cannot be disconnected you could close the car door and open the
>> window. Or if the door has to be open, be creative and come up with a
>> fastener to hold down the door switch.[/color]
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>Maybe Toyota took a leaf from Mazda's beeper book and set it up so if you
>open the door with the key in, beeper goes off until you remove the key.
>Reinsert the key with the door still open... beeper couldn't give a toss!
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>Give that a go.
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>Nick.
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>Don't have any ideas for the second[color=green]
>> problem.
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Try the same 'cure'...bet it'll work just as well?.



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>> "lega kismar" <ogla@hotmail.fr> wrote in message
>> news:75g2i05olrcsesh30ilv34hrijn5ekvrd1@4ax.com...[color=darkred]
>> > Just recently bought a (nearly-) new RAV4 (mod. 3003).
>> > When I open the door with the contact key left in place, it makes an
>> > ugly and insistent beep noise.
>> > I like to listen to the radio from outside, eg while I clean the car
>> > (door open), and this beep noise is really a nuisance.
>> > Also, when I leave the small lights on when the car is parked -
>> > convenient or even necessary in some situations, there is a different,
>> > very annoying beep tone, obviously produced by the same beeper,
>> > somewhere behind the dashboard, on the left of the steerwheel.
>> > Is there a way to shut that damn thing up? (eg a fuse or so?)
>> > thanks.
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