2017 base Giulia, ~500 miles, no after-market gear.
I've had her for few weeks now, and she just started making a strange, random buzz/alarm with no corresponding visuals. The sound is different from all of the expected audible alerts (seat belt, door open, key fob removed, parking sensors, forward and reverse obstacle detection, etc.), and sounds like an old-school door-open alarm. It's not a beep or ding, it's a constant tone, and the volume of the tone correlates to the volume of the radio (i.e., if the radio if turned down, the tone is soft, and when the radio is loud, so is the tone). It sometime goes for just a second or two, and sometimes several seconds. It happens most often when my auto-stop engages, but has also happened while driving at slow speeds in city traffic. It happens most in stop-and-go traffic.
This started when I was literally pulling out of my dealer's service department after having my front license-plate bracket installed (the bracket requires drilling into the front bumper, covering the driver's side tow hook). The front sensors do not seem to be obstructed.
At first I thought either I had a door that was mostly, but not fully latched, or that it was some kind of tailgating/obstacle detection of some kind, but it sometimes happens when there aren't any cars that are particularly close, and the alarm is different from any of the ones I mentioned above.
Is this some kind of safety feature that I hadn't encountered before, or is something wrong? Thoughts?
I've had her for few weeks now, and she just started making a strange, random buzz/alarm with no corresponding visuals. The sound is different from all of the expected audible alerts (seat belt, door open, key fob removed, parking sensors, forward and reverse obstacle detection, etc.), and sounds like an old-school door-open alarm. It's not a beep or ding, it's a constant tone, and the volume of the tone correlates to the volume of the radio (i.e., if the radio if turned down, the tone is soft, and when the radio is loud, so is the tone). It sometime goes for just a second or two, and sometimes several seconds. It happens most often when my auto-stop engages, but has also happened while driving at slow speeds in city traffic. It happens most in stop-and-go traffic.
This started when I was literally pulling out of my dealer's service department after having my front license-plate bracket installed (the bracket requires drilling into the front bumper, covering the driver's side tow hook). The front sensors do not seem to be obstructed.
At first I thought either I had a door that was mostly, but not fully latched, or that it was some kind of tailgating/obstacle detection of some kind, but it sometimes happens when there aren't any cars that are particularly close, and the alarm is different from any of the ones I mentioned above.
Is this some kind of safety feature that I hadn't encountered before, or is something wrong? Thoughts?
