Does anyone else have a car that goes "Ping"?

[SteveUK]

For the last several months, at one roundabout on my daily commute, and nowhere else, the car gives a quiet "ping" sound.

Nothing appears on the dash or infotainment system. It's totally predictable, so much so that when I gave a workmate a lift into the office I told him about it in advance, and got him to watch the infotainment to see if anything showed up that I missed.

Sure enough, exactly where I said it would happen, the car goes "ping" - okay, maybe more of a "bong", but nothing came up on the dash cluster, nor on the infotainment.
There are no error messages, car is working fine.

I've never heard it anywhere else. Always the exact same location, same roundabout, but only on the way in. On the way home when I drive the other side of the roundabout, nothing.

I'm not using navigation on the infotainment, nor on my phone, so it's not a satnav notification of anything like a speed camera - and I pass 3 or 4 of those each morning, and never get this "ping".

Any ideas?

 

[BoomerBoom]

In my last Leon it used to make odd noises related to the 5G cell signal, so could be repeated if you drove the same route, but those were mostly clicks and static.

The software in these cars is a bit of a mess, that same car thought it was left hand drive and tried to pull me to 'safety' into incoming traffic, so it could be anything really.

 

[SteveUK]

That sounds like made screening on the audio system.
This is a very definite, deliberate chime.
Always the same place, and only that one place. Nothing special about it, it's a medium size roundabout, 4 way, and it's as I pass the first exit, exactly the same place. It's very weird.

 

[Bahnstormer_vRS]

Do you have the SOS system on your Leon?

Maybe the ping is it reconnecting, having dropped out due to poor signal, in that location.

You may not have seen the tell tale red/green light on the button, as it's in the headlining / mirror housing out of your normal line of sight; at least mine is in my Ateca.

Guy

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