# Prius chirp

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/prius-chirp/37536>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** noises, prius, toyota\
**Created:** [October 3, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/prius-chirp/37536 "2009-10-03T21:04:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![kfwcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kfwcar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/kfwcar)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/prius-chirp/37536/1 "2009-10-03T21:04:22Z")

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My 2006 Prius has an intermittent chirp that sounds somewhat like tapping the horn softly. It appears often just after I turn on the power, when I stop at stop lights or in my carport, and sometimes after I turn off the power. Usually there is a single chirp, but there have been as many as 5 in a row. The dealer has no idea what it could be and it is intermittent so that it is difficult to track down. It has been present at least a couple years. I haven’t noticed this at highway speed, but that might be because road noise masks it. Any idea what this could be?

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**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/prius-chirp/37536/2 "2009-10-04T12:16:57Z")

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Click This Link And See If This Sounds Like It.  
[http://community.cartalk.com/posts/list/2129654.page](http://community.cartalk.com/posts/list/2129654.page)  
CSA