Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General General Annoying tone when door is open

Whenever you open the door with the key in, that sound is there. DING DING DING DING DING! It gets sooooo annoying when im trying to work on the car. Especially when im wiring up my cd player and I need to leave the key in to listen to the speakers. Its even worse if I am somewhere around the car with friends, and I want to put on some music and open a door or two (need key in ignition).

SOOOO I came up with an idea to install a switch for the tone. This way I can leave the door open, and just flip the switch under my dash to make it shut up. And I can just turn it on again later. The problem is, when I looked at the speaker itself, it is directly attatched to the fusebox, and I dont want to screw around with wiring in the fuse box. I thought that I can just take apart the switch in the doorway that clicks in the tone. I thought that I could just rewire it and put in a flip switch so that I can just cut the power to it whenever I want. When I cut the wire, the other end fell back into the hole. Now I cant find it. No matter how much I dig from the inside, or wherever, I CANT FIND THE DAMN WIRE! It was white with a black stripe, and I noticed a white/black stripe wire coming from the fuse box, but I really dont think its the same one because it is quite thicker. I noticed another white/black stripe wire going to the power mirror controls. Is there a place I can get a wiring diagram from, or does anybody know where this wire leads to and from? I hope somebody out there understood what I just wrote, because I need to find this thing. If pics are required, then I can maybe take them tomorrow.

I thought I was the only one up this late. I just stick a toothpick in the button thingy to make it stay in. No more dinging until you pull the toothpick out.

That relay does more than just ding when the door's open IIRC... I remember a post of someone who stuck a screwdriver through what they believed was just a speaker and screwed up several things in their car... just use the toothpick idea... but then then the lights don't go on with the opening of the drivers' door...
Else... try to incorporate that ding sound into your life in some positive way... haha!

Get a flute and play a tune...maybe it will pop back out of the hole kinda like a snake charmer?

tried it.

what i did was take a bunch of kleenex (like 5-6 sheets) fold it in half, and duct tape it to the bottom of the box, it muffles the speaker making it MUCH quieter.

Probably best to remove left kickpanel to expose wiring in body cavity. The W/BK wire actually heads over to a connector on pass side then doubles back to a 10 pin connector(9 used) at the fuse panel. This is a wire which is grounded by door jamb switch, when door is open, providing signal that driver's door is open to central timer module.