Die Dinger Die!!!

raventai · December 12, 2001

well i finally got serious about getting rid of that ahoying door buzzer

and I found it , but could not kill it It is in a electronic box directly below the stearing colum just behind the knee kicker pannel the box seams to control interior lights and prolly other stuf

Un fortunately U would have to desolder the speaker to get rid of it not a problem but I am not shure if anything else is depending on that connection

so I came up with a comprimize and stuffed the speaker hole with cotton and covered it up with sticky foam weather striping, it is not silenced but definately quieter by 75% or better

I can now work on the truck with the door open and the radio on

only thing I can think of to get rid of it alltogether is tp try just plain removing it (may work) or find the impedance of the speaker and solder a resister in its place of the same resistance and current capacity, I have no idea how to find this out

the speaker is made by star ? part # Tmx-05d with 01b written below that on the next line

any serious electronics peeps out there?

FunInTheMud · December 12, 2001

Hey raventai,

Just removed the little black door buzzer box as well. If you pull hard enough, it will come out. On my truck, it is fused into the break lights. I don't know why chevy did that. I also put a switch on my interior lights. Now, I can work on my truck, turn the interior lights off, and not listen to that darn door dinger.

FunInTheMud

Av3 · December 12, 2001

Found out the other day on the Av that you can click the door striker closed (the "V" shaped piece inside the door) while the door is open and it shuts off the annoying dinger. You just have to remember to pull the door handle to reset it before slamming the door shut! I would think the Silverado's are the same.

chevy4x4trucks · December 12, 2001

most of the time when I'm working on the truck the battery's disconnected so I don't really worry about it.

raventai · December 12, 2001

FunInTheMud, on the new trucks there looks to be a lot going on in that box I do not think I can just delete it, was the one in your truck that big? seams like a lot of electronics to gust delete

AV3 ahhhh that is where it is I was wondering how it new door position as there is no exposed door pin

raventai · December 12, 2001

most of the time when I'm working on the truck the battery's disconnected so I don't really worry about it.

I am afraid of disconecting my battery for any length of time I do not want may allison to loose its "training"

sunset_av · December 12, 2001

I got real excited at first when I read the message title “finally found the annoying door dinger”. I thought you found the person(s) that have been beating up the sides of my vehicles in store parking lots by banging their doors open! I was ready to come kick some ***.

I guess I’ll have to keep looking. Lord help the person when I catch them. (I just hope it’s some little old lady though)

:angry:

FunInTheMud · December 13, 2001

raventai,

On my truck, a 92 model, the dinger is just a little black box, about 2.5'' by 2.5''. It is about half the size yours is. I am looking at it right now as I type. It appears to be only a door dinger, and nothing else. It has 7 metal prongs on the back of it. I had it out since last Saturday, and everything works fine. It is so nice not having to listen to that dang thing when you have the doors open and the radio on. If you want to eliminate it all together, you could poke a pen in that little hole on the top of the little black thing. It would probably bust the stuff inside, and would no longer beep. That's the nice thing about my truck, you can just pull it out. By the way, my dinger is manufactured by the "muti" company. Sound like Japanese, yet made in Canada.

FunInTheMud