Beeping - Help

[turboww]

A friend of mine has a Boxter with an issue.

He is getting a 'Double Beeping' from it - If he opens the door and shuts it and locks it, it stops.

Any ideas as to what this is?

Thanks.

 

[whinbush]

Is the bleep when he locks the car ?
If so this is normally to let you know that either of the luggage compartments is not closed or that the glove box is open.
Could be worth checking the pressure switches on these three if everything seems closed ok..
Or I could be way off base!

 

[Mark_Bennett]

When is the double beeping?

If it's when he locks the car, then it indicates that the interior sensors are disabled. This is usually done by double pressing the lock button on the key. Maybe he's double clicking, or the switch is making a double contact somehow?


Edit to say that whinbush is right - but the "something is open" signal is a single beep.

 

[London987]

not sure what year it is or how long he's had it but if it helps i seem to remember something on here about a sensor on the back of the stereo. so if he's recently had that changed it might also cause the blip. just a thought, hope its just an open glovebox!

 

[Glyn]

I thought single beep was to say one circuit is open and a double beep signifies one circuit is not monitoring that area at all, which does include interior sensors but also a door lock failure

 

[ctc 1]

Sounds like a seize or faulty door lock control module in one of the doors to me!

 

[Mark_Bennett]

A double beep indicates a fault situation - a sensor is not working.
I was a little misleading above - a double press on the lock button disables the interior sensors, and you get a single beep.

Any other situation and there is something wrong. The fault status is maintained I believe (for the last x number of cases) so a Porsche Centre or Specialist should be able to interrogate the system and find out what it is.

A single beep means that:

A door is open
A boot is open
The glovebox is open
The storage box between the seats is open
The radio security contact is live (often happens when the radio is replaced - a bit of tape fixes that)
The petrol filler flap lock is not closed


Edit:
Corrected a little.

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Bumping to say I've corrected my post above a little.

As Glyn said earlier in the thread - a double beep is an error condition.