Change in audible tones after body work.

[Jpen44]

I’m not sure if this is the best board as my question may be more related to the process of body work but maybe someone can help me.

I had my mondeo in the body shop for three days having fairly minor dents to boot and passenger side doors repaired. I know for the doors this involved pulling out the panel and respraying.

Picked the car up today and the body work looks great.....but my electrics seem odd! The tone of the beeps for my parking sensors and seatbelt alert has changed and when I first sat in the car it said “system off for battery saving”. I’ve not seen this message before.

So I guess I’m wondering if anyone knows if the process involved in body work repairs might impact these? Could they have had some of the electrics on and partly drained the battery? I will phone the shop tomorrow to check but just wondered if anyone had any insights?

[Clifford Chambers]

I've heard of this (arf arf)

I think it's down to a low battery, the noise then comes through a small internal speaker rather than the audio. Should reset itself.

[some bloke]

If they have done any mig/tig welding they should have/would have disconnected the battery; likewise, if they are spotwelding tags or rods on to pull out the dents. Maybe needs a reset of some sort?

[Demelitia]

There’s a good chance the doors will have been open for extended periods(interior lights on, car systems not going to sleep much) along with the car being started up repeatedly to move it with only short amounts of time for the alternator to put any juice back in the battery.

We’ve had it at work with cars; I usually try turn everything off as soon as a car comes in to prevent this happening where possible.

Taking the car out for a decent run to charge the battery, or getting a charger on it will help I imagine.

[Jpen44]

Thank you for the replies. After a Google I realised it was pointing to a drained battery. I think you are right, doors were probably open for a while with lights etc on. I took it for a good drive and all beeps returned to normal 😊

[Spare tyre]

Demelitia said:

There’s a good chance the doors will have been open for extended periods(interior lights on, car systems not going to sleep much) along with the car being started up repeatedly to move it with only short amounts of time for the alternator to put any juice back in the battery.

We’ve had it at work with cars; I usually try turn everything off as soon as a car comes in to prevent this happening where possible.

Taking the car out for a decent run to charge the battery, or getting a charger on it will help I imagine.

My money is on this, I review dash cam of my car spending 4 weeks at garage, lots of shunting around for 10 seconds at a time, keys left in igniting not turned off etc

I’d leave it for a while and see if it comes back to normal.

Could it also be that the speaker was behind something that has been removed to access something an not put back the same, thus changing the sound