What's causing this pinging sound

[DerryW]

When driving along after leaving site we get a sporadic pinging noise from the control panel. It can be any time between 5 and 10 mins intervals and it pings for 5 pings. The only appliance we have switched on is the fridge on battery. The light symbol comes on the panel as soon as the panel is switched on which I believe is normal.
The pinging sound is exactly the same noise the you get if you don't fully shut the fridge door when parked up.

Thanks

 

[Richard n Ann]

When I get a ping it's always Messenger. Check your phone

 

[daveandsan]

Our fridge pings when I turn the engine off and it loses the 12 volts from the engine.

 

[Taran_Las]

Perhaps your fridge door hasn't closed properly after you checked the light on the panel. ​

 

[Vipar]

Mine was low water

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[glenn2926]

Mine pings when water below 10 litres.

 

[RobbyMClark]

me dinners done in the microwave.

 

[Camdoon]

Mine did this on one van when the fridge door was adjusted to just pull open rather than press the button. Drove us nuts for a couple of journeys.

 

[Parrot Face]

Low water on mine.

 

[SpeedyDux]

Same here, low water warning.

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[DerryW]

It looks like low water is the favorite place to start. Having just spent 5 days away this is the first time we have completely exhausted the on board water tank and filled the grey waste 100%. we normally travel with 25% fresh water depending on were we going (possibly 50% if we're unsure of the filling prospect where we land) but never more than 50% .

The pining sounds has happened in the past on the very very few occasion, so maybe you need to have a minimum 25% in the tank. I'll experiment and feed back after our next trip.

 

[DerryW]

Sorry, I should have said a big big thank you for all responders.

That is the beauty of this forum there will always be others out there that have experienced the same issue, no matter how wired you might think the issue.

Thanks once again.
Derry

 

[bobandjanie]

Could also be your step not fully retracting or switch playing up, seat belt may have dodgy wire, god I things like that, good luck. Bob

 

[Rapido925M]

I was very concerned when I got "ping, ping, ping" every few seconds just as I reversed off the drive.
No obvious lights on the dash board, no obvious problems visible around the vehicle.
I switched off and consulted the handbook and the noise stopped: nothing fitted the description.
Switch back on and "ping, ping, ping" again.

Switch off and phone the main dealers. They put me through to service dept who couldn't suggest what it might be and eventually advised me to drive steadily to their garage, which was 20 miles in the opposite direction to my destination.

Girding my loins I set off, then realised it was the dashcam saying that the SD card needed reformatting.

Gordon

 

[Vipar]

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[Puddleduck]

Or the electronic noise that wakes you during the night - you hunt high and low checking phones, kindles, tablets - just to find "someone" didn't switch off his walkie-talkie after pitching up and it is now low on battery. Even worse it has happened several times.

 

[Minxy]

The worst noise is when an 'alarm' goes off on a clock or piece of kit with an time alarm function somewhere that you didn't know you had in there, usually middle of the night so by the time you get out of bed it's stopped and you can't find the ruddy thing ... this goes on night after night until you ensure you are already 'up' at the allotted time so can batter the damned thing into submission!

 

[DerryW]

It looks like low water is the favorite place to start. Having just spent 5 days away this is the first time we have completely exhausted the on board water tank and filled the grey waste 100%. we normally travel with 25% fresh water depending on were we going (possibly 50% if we're unsure of the filling prospect where we land) but never more than 50% .

The pining sounds has happened in the past on the very very few occasion, so maybe you need to have a minimum 25% in the tank. I'll experiment and feed back after our next trip.

Well after filling the fresh water tank to 25% before setting off on a nice long run today guess what... no more pinging sound. So the pinging is a low water warning device. Thanks to all those that suggested this might be the problem, to the rest of you fellow MH’s thanks for your suggestions too.