Principles of Operation
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2006 Mercury Milan, 2006 Lincoln Zephyr, and 2006 Ford Fusion. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
The instrument cluster uses different types of sounds to alert the driver of various vehicle conditions as follows:
- Safety belt warning (repetitive chime)
- Safety belt minder warning (repetitive chime after a delay and after the safety belt chime is completed)
- Key-in-ignition warning (repetitive chime)
- Headlamps on warning (repetitive chime)
- Door ajar warning (single tone chime)
- Turn signal on warning (repetitive chime after 3.2 km [2.0 miles])
- Turn signal tone (tic-tock chime)
- Parking brake warning (repetitive chime)
- Air bag secondary warning chime (repetitive chime)