Gong replacement

[gookah]

does anyone know exactly where the 'lights left on' gong lives?
is it in the instrument cluster, or elsewhere?

I want to disable it and replace with an E46 chime, instead oi that god awful quacking noise that it makes.
aaargh, aaargh, aaargh, aaargh, aaargh,

 

[g8jka]

I thought you did a similar mod on one of your old zeds? Or did you just disconnect the buzzer?

If you rewire so your lights go off with the ignition then you won't get the buzzing noise. You did this on either my old or current one so I never drained the battery by leaving the lights on and I lost the buzzing noise.

 

[gookah]

i put a beeper on this zed, but its not very loud and I still have the original sound.

I never leave the lights on, because the gong alerts me, but I just don't like the sound

 

[mrscalex]

Good question - I’d like to do the same. I am me factory but there are limits - that thing is awful.

 

[t-tony]

They didn't improve them on the Z4 either.

Tony.

 

[DomiMik]

Good morning,
the horrifying buzzer is in the instrument cluster. Never done it myself, but it shouldn't be much of a problem to replace it, at least I heard of some people who did it with an E36 gong. Just needs some soldering to release the buzzer, then you can connect the wires which lead to the chime.
Greetings
Dominik

 

[137699]

The lights on buzzer is indeed in the cluster and it's apparently quite a mission to get to it.
On my car it actually failed a few weeks after I bought the car - coincidentally the same day that I rewired the stereo so the Bluetooth function worked.... go figure?

Anyway, as much as I hated the sound I was concerned about forgetting & leaving the lights on and coming back to a flat battery so I took my car to motormods in Cheltenham and they wired me up a new buzzer - a much more pleasing high pitched wine than the nasty QUACK-QUACK-QUACK of the original.

 

[gookah]

came across this in regards to the instrument cluster, no mention of gong, but the guy seems to be a complete amateur.....
https://www.car-auto-repair.com/how-to-remove-and-disassemble-instrument-cluster-for-bmw-z3/

some expert....

 

[137699]

I don't think there's any need to be derogatory about the guy that wrote that? Seems a pretty decent article to me.

 

[mrscalex]

I don't think there's any need to be derogatory about the guy that wrote that? Seems a pretty decent article to me.

Bit of an in-joke and you've been pranked a bit. @t-tony is one of our most esteemed forum members

 

[gookah]

I don't think there's any need to be derogatory about the guy that wrote that? Seems a pretty decent article to me.

T-Tony on here wrote the article,
he has marked it as funny...

 

[Dado]

Hi, just reading this thread and am interested in the fact that someone wired the lights to kill when the ignition is turned off, I know the headlights do but the side lights stay on.can anyone point me to the wiring that needs to alter the fact that all the lights go off with the ignition please. As someone who drives with headlights on all the time would like to not have to remember to turn them on as well as off.......
Also would like to take out the dimming function as well if anyone knows how to do that, have taken the dimmer part out of the light switch but the panel lights still dim when the outside lights come on.
Can't see the clock on bright days with the roof down, always late for everything.......

 

[Mazza]

I like reading threads like this as you find out more little things about the car.
I had no idea there was a buzzer warning if you left the lights on.

So tried it out today while cleaning the car, ( @andyglym , a really deep clean today as I used two buckets of water this time ) ,
and sure enough it makes a quack quack noise. So thats something else I learnt about the car