saulsse
01-04-05, 05:13 AM
I am still learning the quirks of my 05 GT Auto.
Among the quirks is the event alarm or tone that alerts the driver to certain events.
The first time the event alarm went off while I was motoring down the road was to tell me something had taken place.
Puzzled as to why it sounded, I found a safe place to pull over and took stock of the situation.
No idiot lights were showing, the temp gauge was in normal range and the engine was idling rather happily.
So why had the alert tone sounded?
I looked at everything on the dash again and saw nothing wrong. It had been cold enough to turn on the rear window defroster on so I had turned it on before I left the police department.
I looked down at the switch for the rear window defroster, and noted that the light was off. So the defroster had completed a cycle.
Having a bit of time, I turned the defroster back on and sat on the side of the road waiting. A few minutes later the alert tone sounded and out went the light on the defroster.
Great I thought to myself... the car tells me the defroster has completed the cycle, what else will it make noise about?
Well in routine driving that all of us do, we come across sometimes the unexpected and the unseen.
I had exited a divided highway and was on an access road to get off at a nearby exit. As I exited, and went into the turn which was sort of a switchback, the alert tone bugled the alert again just as I felt the rear of the GT breaking loose.
I had driven into a diesel fuel spill, that was right in the middle of the sharp turn. I saw the idiot light on the dash light up informing me that TCS was engaged as I was preoccupied with keeping the GT from doing a 180, and all the while the alarm is screaming.
Ok fine and dandy, so the TCS is working, let up off the gas, kill the O/D and downshift into 2nd and tap the gas a tad then like a good Mustang she answers and we go in the direction that I want to go.
All the while that Event Alarm/Tone what ever it is called is still screeching.
I know we have a Ford Tech in here, so the question is can the owner program the alarm/tone/nag alert system to sound ONLY on certain events vice thing that the factory considers a major alert for some reason? Or do I have to take the critter to my dealer and tell them what to program the car for? I could not find a reference to the alarm alerts in the manual or I was not looking in the right place.
Stephen from Atlanta
Among the quirks is the event alarm or tone that alerts the driver to certain events.
The first time the event alarm went off while I was motoring down the road was to tell me something had taken place.
Puzzled as to why it sounded, I found a safe place to pull over and took stock of the situation.
No idiot lights were showing, the temp gauge was in normal range and the engine was idling rather happily.
So why had the alert tone sounded?
I looked at everything on the dash again and saw nothing wrong. It had been cold enough to turn on the rear window defroster on so I had turned it on before I left the police department.
I looked down at the switch for the rear window defroster, and noted that the light was off. So the defroster had completed a cycle.
Having a bit of time, I turned the defroster back on and sat on the side of the road waiting. A few minutes later the alert tone sounded and out went the light on the defroster.
Great I thought to myself... the car tells me the defroster has completed the cycle, what else will it make noise about?
Well in routine driving that all of us do, we come across sometimes the unexpected and the unseen.
I had exited a divided highway and was on an access road to get off at a nearby exit. As I exited, and went into the turn which was sort of a switchback, the alert tone bugled the alert again just as I felt the rear of the GT breaking loose.
I had driven into a diesel fuel spill, that was right in the middle of the sharp turn. I saw the idiot light on the dash light up informing me that TCS was engaged as I was preoccupied with keeping the GT from doing a 180, and all the while the alarm is screaming.
Ok fine and dandy, so the TCS is working, let up off the gas, kill the O/D and downshift into 2nd and tap the gas a tad then like a good Mustang she answers and we go in the direction that I want to go.
All the while that Event Alarm/Tone what ever it is called is still screeching.
I know we have a Ford Tech in here, so the question is can the owner program the alarm/tone/nag alert system to sound ONLY on certain events vice thing that the factory considers a major alert for some reason? Or do I have to take the critter to my dealer and tell them what to program the car for? I could not find a reference to the alarm alerts in the manual or I was not looking in the right place.
Stephen from Atlanta