Technical Strange beeping in U-Connect

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Technical Strange beeping in U-Connect

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Had our new 500x Lounge for 3 weeks now and it has a strange random beeping sound. So here goes:-
As we enter "some" towns there starts a ...beep beep..................beep beep..............beep beep........and then it will stop.
All will be silent for a length of time and the same thing happens.
Yesterday we drove the 85km to the service centre dealer and it was silent in one taown but as we drove through another ( just a hamlet really comprising about 10 houses it did it again....then silence until we got out in the country and came to a crossroad where it went beep beep beep beep then silent.....sevral kilometres later as we cam to a railway crossing all by itself in the middle of nowhere..beep beep.............beep beep..............beep beep and then stopped.
It is not a speed warning as we have checked that and been travelling at least 10km/hr under the posted limit.
The only way we stop it completely is to turn off the radio/u-connect system completely.
The dealer can't tell us what it is at all.
Does anyone else have this problem.
And out of interest the Fiat 500X with un-connect and satnav we hired in UK last September didn't do it at all.
 
Have you got the speed limiter set to a particular speed? Going over this would give a succession of three short beeps for a period of time.

Alternatively, could be the satnav, if you have it, alerting you of accident black spots or level crossings and such.
 
I had a similar problem when I first had mine. It turned out to be the Speed Camera warning signal activating for every single mobile and fixed camera location. Turned it off in the settings and not a single beep since. The best clue will be if it keeps beeping in the same places. Mine kept activating on the same roundabout every time, and there was a mobile camera site half a mile up the road.

Good luck
 
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Yes, concur, speed camera warning.

NOTE! Even though you do not have the Sat Nav showing it is running in the background. Also do not make the same mistake I made thinking that the speedo reads 5% to 10% high like all other Fiats you are used to.

I'm 99% certain the dash speedo is self calibrating in that periodically it uses the sat nav speed (which is accurate to 0.1mph/km). This also means that as the tyres wear down the indicated speed will not increase.

So in the UK where with most older Fiats you can safely drive at an indicated 80mph and not get nicked you will nicked at 79mph and over in a 500X.
 
Thanks for the responses guys.
We set the speed limiter to 120km/hour just in case...still beeps.
So far I can't find any setting for speed cameras unlike my portable Tom-Tom in my Chrysler 300c which is simple. (the owners manual is a disaster actually)
So any guidance with that would help.
And speed cameras tend to be very obvious here and I can't see any...and def no mobile speed traps were operating (they are a bit thick and use Holden Captivas or Suby Forresters with them parked by the road...stick out like sore thumbs lol)
Sadly as a side comment the mapping is at least 4 years out of date and Fiat Australia have no updates for it. :(

The dealer is staffed by nice people but I'm going to throw this directly back at head office.
Also the U-connect Live app is not functional in Australia so doesn't allow me to download from the app store.....such is life :(
 
Thanks for the responses guys.
We set the speed limiter to 120km/hour just in case...still beeps.
So far I can't find any setting for speed cameras unlike my portable Tom-Tom in my Chrysler 300c which is simple. (the owners manual is a disaster actually)
So any guidance with that would help.
And speed cameras tend to be very obvious here and I can't see any...and def no mobile speed traps were operating (they are a bit thick and use Holden Captivas or Suby Forresters with them parked by the road...stick out like sore thumbs lol)
Sadly as a side comment the mapping is at least 4 years out of date and Fiat Australia have no updates for it. :(

The dealer is staffed by nice people but I'm going to throw this directly back at head office.
Also the U-connect Live app is not functional in Australia so doesn't allow me to download from the app store.....such is life :(

I can't help you with the location of the 'Off' switch at the moment as mine is at the dealership attempting a maps update (nothing is simple), but I managed to turn it off, it's in the settings somewhere.

If you have the map showing on the screen you should see a corresponding dot about half a mile ahead for every beep, where it THINKS the cameras are.

Hope this helps
 
I had the same problem. Dealer had no idea, but it really did look like the speed camera warnings were the culprit, but in my case it was doing it even with the system turned off.

However, the car has since had an ECU reset x2 and has stopped misbehaving. Off the top of my head the option to turn it off is available when you're in Nav mode, there's an Options button in the bottom right for nav specific stuff. I'll check mine later.
 
Off the top of my head the option to turn it off is available when you're in Nav mode, there's an Options button in the bottom right for nav specific stuff. I'll check mine later.

Yes, it's one of the subset under Speed Limits in thecNav Settings menu
 
Yes, concur, speed camera warning.

NOTE! Even though you do not have the Sat Nav showing it is running in the background. Also do not make the same mistake I made thinking that the speedo reads 5% to 10% high like all other Fiats you are used to.

I'm 99% certain the dash speedo is self calibrating in that periodically it uses the sat nav speed (which is accurate to 0.1mph/km). This also means that as the tyres wear down the indicated speed will not increase.

So in the UK where with most older Fiats you can safely drive at an indicated 80mph and not get nicked you will nicked at 79mph and over in a 500X.



The speedo would not self calibrate with the sat nav. The speedo is calibrated from new and stays that way.
 
The speedo would not self calibrate with the sat nav. The speedo is calibrated from new and stays that way.

Are you sure about this?

I've never ever yet seen a speedo digital readout exactly match that of a Sat Nav unit.

I've not done the maths yet but my tyres a 4mm down from new yet the sat nav and speedo (digital) read exactly the same and flip at the same time.

Such a precise correlation coupled with such an exact initial calibration indicate that there is more than just a final drive speed pulse to a display unit.

Anyway, regardless of any self calibration the 500X speedo (in my case) is spot on to within 0.5mph across the range to 80mph+. (vehicle digital speedo increments/decrements with 0.5 or less MPH of the vehicles sat nat speed and that of and independent sat nat unit.

If I'm pressed on this then when I'm down to 2mm of tread I'll run the calculations of expected speed difference, on a fixed final drive setup, and it will be more than 1 mph and I'm sure the sat nav speed will be exactly the same as the speedo speed which would then indicated that for cars with sat nav the speedo periodically self adjust.

Were I the designer I would certainly implement this self calibration as it would be sooooo easy to do in a few bytes of code.

Final point. The speedo IS NOT driven by a traditional final drive pulse signal. The speedo is driven by a computer generated value. If you use diagnostic software such as MES the it will drive the speedo (via CAN Bus) to show 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, 0%. This just shows that there is no direct link between wheel/final drive pulses and what the speedo shows.

Also the speedo system uses the higher resolution ABS ring pulse for speed calculation , backed up by final drive.
 
I don't have the Fiat sat nav on my 500x only a tom tom unit. The car speedo over reads between 2 mph and 3mph according to the tom tom. This was also repeated on all my previous cars. The tom tom speed also matches up with the speed shown on my iPhone . Gps speed is the correct speed due to manufacturers building their speedo with margins of error tyres/wear etc.
 
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Did you ever resolve this?

Just got mine back from the dealer and when in Southport it does the double beep thing, also when in bundal. But... No where else so far on the coast.

My speed buzzer is set to 115kph so it's not that.
 
Are you sure about this?

I've never ever yet seen a speedo digital readout exactly match that of a Sat Nav unit.

I've not done the maths yet but my tyres a 4mm down from new yet the sat nav and speedo (digital) read exactly the same and flip at the same time.

Such a precise correlation coupled with such an exact initial calibration indicate that there is more than just a final drive speed pulse to a display unit.

Anyway, regardless of any self calibration the 500X speedo (in my case) is spot on to within 0.5mph across the range to 80mph+. (vehicle digital speedo increments/decrements with 0.5 or less MPH of the vehicles sat nat speed and that of and independent sat nat unit.

If I'm pressed on this then when I'm down to 2mm of tread I'll run the calculations of expected speed difference, on a fixed final drive setup, and it will be more than 1 mph and I'm sure the sat nav speed will be exactly the same as the speedo speed which would then indicated that for cars with sat nav the speedo periodically self adjust.

Were I the designer I would certainly implement this self calibration as it would be sooooo easy to do in a few bytes of code.

Final point. The speedo IS NOT driven by a traditional final drive pulse signal. The speedo is driven by a computer generated value. If you use diagnostic software such as MES the it will drive the speedo (via CAN Bus) to show 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, 0%. This just shows that there is no direct link between wheel/final drive pulses and what the speedo shows.

Also the speedo system uses the higher resolution ABS ring pulse for speed calculation , backed up by final drive.

The Continental digital speedo on the 500L has always been 4/5mph lower than the advertised speed on my TomTom and Garmin at 70mph and something like 6mph at 80mph. It's been the same from worn tyres to new. It's built into the design to add leniency for speed deviations from the cams.

It has saved my ass from a lot of trouble. :D In fact I haven't gotten a ticket at all with these new digital speedos in the cars I have owned in the past. Just once in an old old Astra and that's because that would underestimate for some reason :/

Thank you older-gen inaccurate displays...

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Mine does this whenever I approach a fuel station - not a speed camera. It does it every time if I have navigation voice on. Switching navigation voice off fixes the problem. Not ideal but the only solution I can find.
 
Mine does this whenever I approach a fuel station - not a speed camera. It does it every time if I have navigation voice on. Switching navigation voice off fixes the problem. Not ideal but the only solution I can find.



One more reason I'm glad I binned uConnect
 
The Continental digital speedo on the 500L has always been 4/5mph lower than the advertised speed on my TomTom and Garmin at 70mph and something like 6mph at 80mph. It's been the same from worn tyres to new. It's built into the design to add leniency for speed deviations from the cams.

It has saved my ass from a lot of trouble. :D In fact I haven't gotten a ticket at all with these new digital speedos in the cars I have owned in the past. Just once in an old old Astra and that's because that would underestimate for some reason :/

Thank you older-gen inaccurate displays...

2017-fiat-500-l-trekking-hatchback-instrument-cluster.png

By law a vehicle speedometer CAN NOT read/display a speed LESS THAN the actual speed. It can display a speed equal to or higher than the actual speed. As you say this is to ensure that a driver never exceeds a speed limit when driving to the speed limit on the speedometer.

Regulation No 39 of the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations (UN/ECE) — Uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to the speedometer equipment including its installation

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A42010X0513%2803%29
 
I didn't know this was uconnect related? How can I 'bin' Uconnect?



I simply don't use if for Nav. Turn off all warning beeps and tranquility returns. Once i became aware of the Fiat price for updating the maps I bought a top of the range Garmin for less money. I use the Radio/Media/Phone functions but no longer the Nav. I believe a software update has made it easier to turn the bongs off and keep them off but my dealer thinks my car isn't eligible for it.
 
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