What's this chime?

What a fun mystery!

Is there anything notable at the locations where the cute little song plays?

This reminds me of a feature one of my portable navigation units has in which I can load a POI database into it and select a POI category that causes it to chime every time I'm within a selected distance from a POI in the category. For example, if I select (heaven forbid!) McDonald's Restaurant, the nav unit will chime every time I'm within the selected distance from a McDonald's.

The sound you are hearing also reminds me of the chime that plays on the in-dash system of my wife's 2012 Prius v when there is an incoming email or text message but of course the phone has to be in the car for that to happen and there wouldn't be an incoming message every time at the same location.

Please let us know what Toyota's response is ... waiting with bated (or baited!) breath.

 

the fact that offline's wife's v makes a chime sound at least tells us it is part of the entune system

 

Your navigation system is "running" all the time and tracking your location even when you are not using it to navigate to a destination.

But the incoming text/email message sound in wife's 2012 v Five/ATP is only a quick succession of maybe three rising tones instead of a complex music box-like song like the OP gets.

It might be difficult to get an answer on this forum due to use of this Prius v forum declining and that there were so few v's sold in its final model years.

 

interesting. so apparently, the chime is correct, but it is a gps speed warning?

 

Yeah, that's a disappointing answer.

Plus a appointment at your local dealership to have you vehicle thoroughly diagnosed?
Well if Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc...has no idea, why would I be less than optimistic that Vern and Chuck at the dealership would have any lightening insight as to what is happening?
Plus they aren't going to diagnose for free, so how much would you want to spend to only "maybe" turn off the music box?

Interesting Mystery. But disappointing answer from Toyota.

 

I've contacted Toyota and Lexus customer service only a few times in 30 years and there was rarely anything that could be called "service" in any of their responses.

Have you tried varying the screens being displayed as you repeatedly drive through the location where the chime occurs to see if a notification of some sort is displayed on one of the screens - navigation, audio, etc.? Does the chime occur when you drive both directions through the location or only when you drive towards your house? Again, is there anything notable at the location where the chime occurs - a store, gas station, etc.?

Something else to perhaps try is to post your YouTube video link on the forums for other more popular Prius models and see if someone responds with an answer. Surely this "feature" isn't unique to the 2017 Prius v.

 

I know my iPhone saves places I have parked. I have my phone on mute and I’ve never heard it do a similar thing. I also never use the “wonderful” navigation system that is standard in our Prime .

Maybe you’ve used this in the past and it remembers?

 

was thinking bout a geofence too. If a device like fast track drivers have in los angeles is in the car ? So if an individual decides to block all cell reception? Meaning: creating a 1000 ft geofence near a specific point, Which is not technologically complicated. That fasttrack will beep same as it beeps exactlyl as we enter toll roads or when for example entering airport boundries ( LAX ). In other words i think thers another gps device in the car that generates that beep

 

That's an interesting, unexplored idea!

Agusto, did you happen to finance your Prius when you bought it? Some finance companies require the installation of a GPS vehicle tracker and its installation is not necessarily disclosed to the vehicle buyer.

But I wouldn't think that vehicle trackers of this type would play a cute little song. They're only to make it easier to repossess a vehicle if the buyer defaults on payments.

 

I was kidding - mostly. I also thought about asking if you're wearing a Charlie Sheen-type ankle bracelet like the one he wore in a Fiat commercial that possibly could chime - sorry, I'm bad!:

Also, some dealerships have been known to install aftermarket alarm systems on all the vehicles they sell but to activate it only if they can talk the car buyer into paying for it. There have been several instances reported on car forums recently where these alarms (mostly of the Karr brand) have started malfunctioning and causing beeps and horn toots long after the vehicle was purchased. I've never heard of them being location sensitive but I know little about them other than what I just mentioned and that people have found some mystery hardware installed under their dashboards.

 

Maybe it was an ice cream van in a previous life ?
or it's haunted
I would say it's tracker or POI in the nav. Try deleting your "Home" entry from the nav and see if it still does it.