Dodge spirit 94 Speed Chime

My car is fitted with a speed chime which activates at approx 74 mph, how
can it be switched of or changed to 100mph.

 

What country are you located in? The 75mph speed chime is a requirement in
certain Middle Eastern countries.

DS

 

The car was purchased in the UAE and has now been imported to the UK

 

Oh, *wow*. Now that must've been one hell of a SVA conversion job. If I'm
not mistaken, the Dodge Spirits sold in the Middle Eastern market were
mostly equipped with 3.0 litre V6s with leaded-fuel emissions systems (no
O2 sensor, no catcon) and equipped with mostly US-spec safety equipment
(lights, mirrors, etc.) Unless you got very lucky, I bet you had to do a
great deal of retrofit/conversion work to get the car past MoT.

The speed warning chime is obviously going to be a nuisance with UK
motorway speeds. Unfortunately, the "domestic" (US) service manuals are
almost completely silent on production variants for other markets, even
Canada, let alone all the other places the Spirit/Acclaim/Saratoga cars
were sold (all of Europe, Mexico, Argentina in mostly Mexican-spec form,
Israel in mostly European-spec form, much of the rest of the middle east
in mostly US-spec form...).

You can disconnect the chime itself -- it is located behind the dashboard,
and is relatively easy to find if you simply open the driver's door and
turn on the headlamps with the ignition switched off so you can follow the
chiming sound -- but this will lose you the headlamps-on warning. If you
can live without that (or simply install an aftermarket lights-on warning
buzzer) that's probably the easiest way to disable the annoying chime.

DS

 

Thanks for information, I would still like to just remove the speed signal
from the chime if that is at all possible because i haven't seen in the UK
a headlamp chime as an add on. regards.

 

Headlamp chime add-ons are readily available in the UK. Hella makes one,
no. 3SB 004 438-801. I see them go by on Ebay from time to time, viz:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7919200725

But if you don't spot one on Ebay, your local Hella stockist can furnish
this item.

DS