05 Argosy has non stop beeping noise

Guess I missed the part about the beeping being from the dashboard specifically.....oh wait it wasn't mentioned!
I have had a low voltage disconnect alarm drive me nuts years ago, and it was a small job to fix it. Lets not rule out the simple stuff first huh?
I have absolutely zero doubt that you are a genius with these rigs, but even someone who is pretty technically savvy like myself, gets completely lost with some of your posts mate. The abbreviations are mind blowing, as are some descriptions, unless you have access to all the Freightliner diagrams etc. Unfortunately, 99% of us do not, so it comes across as a garbled mess to the average truck driver!

Martin

 

I understand you well, I'm technician of LAA trans and Transpele companies, and we have to work on Daimler and Volvo trucks (Mack/Renault truck are really Volvo too). It is not all, I'm owner of small shipping company, so I cant be average driver, but I have to help company drivers getting into troubles in distant places.And it is a real nightmare to help him solve complicated problem with wiring, especially on Volvo and Mercedes.

 

Just letting you all know incase someone else has my issue, I'm in a 2012 DD15 Argosy and the staircase buzzer and dash light was on and for the life of me, I couldn't turn it off. I found a way. In the passenger side fuse panel on the dash, on the far right - there is a small little 15amp looking fuse with NO description on it. Its hidden, and sneaky. I found my sneaky fuse on a black cluster of wires. Once I pulled it out, the buzzing stopped! Good luck!

 

Argosy12, a thousand thanks.

I do the same thing when the Tahoe throws electrical drain. When it's off the voltmeter vs battery should behave a specific way and if there is a short anywhere it's coming out of the battery.

The first thing I do before anything is to put a handcam video on the fusebox a couple of feet away on tripod. Then I start working my way down each fuse, pulling and verbalizing against the diagram in both the fues box sticker and cross checking with my vehicle manual that contaiend some of that information in enough clarity that I can use.

I check each against the voltmeter. Once I pull that one fuse on a draining short circult the voltmeter settles down to a position that says the battery is no longer being shorted or drained.

That particular fuse is carefully documented. Three dots made on one of the clear plastic parts and three dots made in the area next to the exact sliot it came from. At that point I hit the internet to deeply research that particular circut.

The offending parasite is identified and replaced and the particular circuit rechecked again. If the volt meter settled down with the fuse and new part in then we fixed that problem for the day.

Now that I have bored everyone with my babbly about a old historic rust pit thta shoud be driven into the river and left there... i'll mention one minor item.

A long time ago Freightliner made cabovers I think it was a 1995 model year for me strictly as a cabover with fixed steps under the doors ahead of the fuel tanks. And a couple nice steps to the catwalk that were pretty boot safe in winter.

I think the company went to the trouble of buying a Freightliner that had folding steps under the doors in a slightly strange configuration to me. Anyway, open door steps open up in time. It will be a minute.

Throw in a time into a minor ice storm come back and hear this WACK WACK WACK as the shop gently persuades the steps to open one side while the propane cannon fired at the ice over everything. *&^% WHACK!

I think that was a sound of finality, like a coffin lid being slamed before the bolts spun in. THUD. (There isnt any funeral anywhere in the USA where hard ##### don't pour tears out at that thud using shop towels to clear the eyes.

I never saw that truck again in the company. I do recall seeing a few come out ad other companies experiments with them. But for whatever reasons they were just sold off and move into conventionals about 1996.

I was in conventional before that, but to be with trucking long enough to be formally issued a nice conventional with everything in it? That takes about 10 years.

Anyway there it is. Fuse hunting and a driver's eye view of a few that managed to make these PA tightwads part with a few dollars now and then. Hopefully this Rumspringa has passed without anyone losing money on that particular tractor. Might take a gallon of cider that has sat a while to help forget the sting of a difficult tractor.

That was a beginning in my life. They sure made some very fancy steps in that there truck. Moving steps too. What's next elevators and escalators? Transporter? HA we will all get fat and lazy unable to move on that heavy dinner weighing our ample authority from being able to get into these fancier and nicer plush boxes.

Steps were not broken you silly Engineers. Whatever possessed you to reinvent something that aint broke?