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Old Sep 13th, 2017, 19:13   #1
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was driving along listening to R4 DAB earlier, when suddenly the output changed to some "serious" music, no station display, but a dialogue-box thingy appeared saying ALARM. No other information...
I had no warns on the TFT at all, and when I pushed the button for R4 again, everything went back to normal.
Anybody else seen this?
Should I be worried?
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I occasionally saw this on my 2009 V50 and (I think) I've seen it once on my XC60. On all occasions it quickly disappeared. A bit like the stop light fail warning a few weeks ago. Lasted about 2 minutes. Went away. Bulbs all fine.
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Was it maybe an emergency broadcast test?

Ive seen these occasionally over the years - cant recall what the text said though.
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Was it maybe an emergency broadcast test?

Ive seen these occasionally over the years - cant recall what the text said though.
Back to the Cold War ?
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Old Sep 13th, 2017, 21:03   #5
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It's the RDS emergency system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System for more details
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I had the same in my V70 just a few days, apperntly nothing to be concerned about.
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I had the same in my V70 just a few days, apperntly nothing to be concerned about.
have now dug down into the manual (downloaded onto laptop, as in-car version is lamentable) and it is indeed to warn of "disasters or catastrophes", so yes - nothing to worry about. It's probably just heard about Brexit...
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I blame North Korea
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I blame North Korea
everybody else is blaming Brexit.
For everything....
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