Hi, I’ve recently got 2024 DS7 Etense and this forum has been incredibly helpful figuring details out. I’ve seen here and there people mentioning the car makes two beeps when locking, but mine doesn’t. Which is great, but my wife always wanted a car that makes two chirps/beeps when locking/activating alarm, and I’d like to surprise her with that. Is there a way to enable those beeps?
I’ve confirmed there is an alarm in the vehicle by doing open window test as recommended here, but I cannot find beep settings in infotainment.
Thanks!
The chirps are to indicate that the doors are locked it has no bearing on whether the alarm is on or off.
After many visits to the dealership to see why my alarm wasn’t sounding after testing by leaving a window open and leaning into the car when it was locked and it had given the two chirps, it was found that the chirps only indicate a locked car.
You have to lock the car with the remote fob to activate the alarm, this will then still give the two chirps but also this time it will flash the indicators, it’s the flashing of the indicators that show if the car’s alarm has been activated and deactivated, not the chirps.
There’s a curve ball to this though that the manual sort of tries to explain but not clearly at all, hence confusion.
Depending what month and year your car was built will depend on how the locks and alarm function.
My car is a mid September 2023 build, so on this model when walking away the doors lock and the car chirps, but no alarm is activated.
I have to use the remote fob to lock the car and activate the alarm, this definitely arms the alarm as it goes off when I lean in through an open window, plus the indicators flash when locking with the fob, they don’t when the car locks automatically when just walking away.
On late September 2023 builds onwards the functioned changed to this : Walking away locks the doors, the car chirps twice and indicators flash, activating the alarm, no need to use the remote to activate the alarm.
If you find that your indicators are not flashing when the car locks when you walk away or when locking with the remote it’s almost certain that you don’t have an actual alarm.
You would assume the chirps where to indicate the alarm had been activated, but the French do things differently, my wife’s Renault Captur is the same, it chirps away like a frenzied bird but it has no alarm.
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Thank you Jactac for taking the time out to write this. I’m just trying to figure out how to make my June 2024 chirp. It is not making a sound when I lock it on door handle or fob.
Oddly enough, alarm blares regardless of how I lock the car (door handle or fob) but it never locks when I walk away. Only options to (un)lock it are pulling or pressing the door handle and the fob.
Do you have proximity feature ?
This is when the car opens/locks by itself when approaching /walking away, you may not have it ?
You can see the settings for this in vehicle settings, it can be activated/deactivated from there.
Is your car a 2024 build or just a 2024 registration ?
It makes a difference.
It might be like mine, a late 2023 build but registered in 2024.
Some cars are sitting in warehouses for up to a year after being built, during that time many changes/updates are made to newer builds.
When you go to buy your car, it might of missed a number of updates and changes to how features operate.
After months of dealing with DS UK, they worked out that my car missed the updated alarm by having a completed build date just 9 days before the updated version.
So my car opens and locks itself when either approaching or walking away, it gives two chirps on locking, but no alarm activation as this has to be done by locking with the fob.
The all cars built 9 days after mine with the same spec, have the alarm tied in with the proximity feature so it arms/disarms without the use of the fob.
Another thing here, is if your alarm is sounding when you lean after locking, then you clearly do have an alarm, but as already mentioned, you don’t hear the two chirps anyway for cars with alarms, the chirps are only to indicate the doors are locked.
Check to see if your indicators flash on locking, that is what shows if your alarm, is on/off.
Getting back to the two chirps, if you see the indicators flash on locking/unlocking, then we know that all is good with the alarm.
But, if you’re not hearing chirps when locking then there’s your fault, the car isn’t telling you its locked..
Don’t mix up the two chirps with the alarm, they are to indicate locking of the doors only.
In my opinion if you don’t hear those chirps when the doors lock then that’s the fault you need to report.
It took my dealership service department months to realise , there no connection between the two chirps and the alarm.
The indicators flashing are the indication for the alarm being activated, but in theory you should also hear the chirps because you’re locking the doors.
We know your car has an alarm because you’ve said it blares regardless of how you lock the car, so what you need to establish is whether it’s the earlier or later edition, and finally why your car is not chirping when its locked.
It’s a poorly designed system made worse by how it’s so poorly explained in the manuals.