BOMBed the door chime

[mikel]

Does anybody else get annoyed with the constant ding, ding of the door chime on our trucks? I did until last night. I was trying to wash and vac. the truck and silly me I wanted to listen to the radio at the same time. On the '99 that I used to have if the key was in the ACC position the door chime would not make noise if the door was open, but on the new truck the door chime goes non-stop. Whatever moron at DC changed that should be forced to spend the rest of his/her life in a room listening to one of those dang things ding constantly. Anyhow I decided to "fix" the problem so that I could wash the truck in peace.

I was going to remove the dinger under the dash, but once I looked at it I thought that it looked pretty big and had quite a few wires going into it to just be a chime, so against my desire to choke the thing I left it alone and looked for an alternative method to end it's whining.

I took the steering column apart (there are only three screws) and started looking at how the switch is mounted and wired. On the right hand side of the column just behind the switch is a two wire connection that if unplugged prevents the dinger from knowing that the key is in the ignition. Ahhh, silence at last!!

This is less than a 5 minute job and it even worked on my wife's Durango too!! Now the chime still works if I leave the headlights on (a good thing) but does not drive me up the wall if I'm cleaning the truck.

Thought I'd share,

Mike