Has heard a while back that 2010-11 (or '05-11) had this feature but there was no mention of it in the manual. Not being one to leave a signal on, I figured I'd never hear this silly chime ... so out of curiousity I left my right one on as I drove down a country road just to see how long it took.

The 1st stretch of road (0.5-1 mile long), I never heard it go off. The 2nd stretch I probably drove another mile before I finally noticed the faint chime ... had the radio on (not loud, but loud enough to hear it) and the windows up so I was really surprised it was so quiet.

Pretty much the same chime as the lights-on chime, but you'd think it would come on sooner and be a bit louder to wake up the typical driver that NEEDS this reminder chime !!

Doug

 

I sometimes miss that mine is still on, but only for about 10 or 15 seconds. I actually had no idea there was a chime, haha. It's probably a bit difficult to judge when someone is going to turn or if someone has just kept their signal on. A lot of external factors there.

 

Most cars have this feature. I've never had the 'chime' go off on any car i've had. According to the forum i was on with my last car (Dodge) the chime went off after around one mile.

I think the 'chimes' go off by distance traveled and not by time passed.

 

With my old car you heard the chime over the radio. With my Mustang you can't hear it at all unless the radio is completely off.

 

I didn't know that any cars had such a reminder chime. I do wish the regular tick tick tick of the turn signal was louder.

 

Why have a chime? The clickity click sound tells you the blinker is on. In fact, that's all it does, since, as I understand it, there is no longer any functional reason for the clicking sound. The clicking is fairly quiet, so a chime might be of value if it were loud; to yell at you "HEY YOUR BLINKER IS STILL ON"! But if the chime is quiet too, a separate chime would be pretty pointless.

 

Chime is not much louder than the signal tick-tock, and you certainly can't hear it over the radio at normal volume so really what's the point. That and it waits until you traveled a MILE ... who the hell purposely puts their signal on even a 1/2 mile ahead ??

Along with a good percentage of the other 144 features I counted on this car (see other thread), it is silly & un-neccessary.

Doug