Annoying external speaker

[djsullivan]

I own a 2018 Tesla X 75D and had an embarrassing incident where one side of a business call I took in the car very early one morning was booming across the neighborhood much louder than what I could hear in the car. I cannot find any setting to stop this. Any experience or ideas on how to prevent this other than turning off Bluetooth. I see it has likely always been a problem and no one had ever complained to me about it before. I cannot imagine why this would be the default setting.

 

[djsullivan]

My sentry mode is off, I do not have a boombox in my toybox. BTW

 

[E90alex]

I don’t think the 2017 X had any sort of external speaker

 

[spectrum]

Yeah 2018 X doesn't have a boombox nor external speaker.

 

[djsullivan]

It obviously does. The question is how to disable it. It's like a megaphone.

 

[spectrum]

It obviously does. The question is how to disable it. It's like a megaphone.

It does not — I own one and they didn't add the external speaker until 2020. Either you're trolling, mistaken, or your car was modified/retrofitted with one!

 

[E90alex]

It does not — I own one and they didn't add the external speaker until 2020. Either you're trolling, mistaken, or your car was modified/retrofitted with one!

Even if so, the default behavior is not to pipe phone calls through the external speaker. I don’t think that’s even an option on cars that do have an external speaker. Only music, fart sounds or megaphone.

 

[djsullivan]

We'll that's what is happening. I'll check with service the next time I'm in to see why this is happening. This is a disappointing forum to be sure

 

[zoomer0056]

We'll that's what is happening. I'll check with service the next time I'm in to see why this is happening. This is a disappointing forum to be sure

Google says speaker added in 2019.

 

[mxnym]

Even if so, the default behavior is not to pipe phone calls through the external speaker. I don’t think that’s even an option on cars that do have an external speaker. Only music, fart sounds or megaphone.

Have you been outside of the vehicle while someone else was on a call? Seem you could then track down this speaker if it existed. Wouldn't surprise me if you find out it's the door speakers, though. The speakers likely aren't in acoustic boxes; there may not be any sound insulation in the doors at all, and they are relatively thin sheet metal. Point of reference, I've never listened to my music very loud, but I once had someone give me a dirty look for having my music too loud in a 1993 sedan with the windows closed. It may have seemed louder outside than inside under very specific conditions, or the person may have thought it was relatively loud (and therefore must be loud inside), but it most certainly did not have an external speaker. Separately, inside buildings, I have been in rooms with no speakers where the sound was louder than the adjoining room that has speakers. Acoustics can be interesting, but there's nothing magical about the back of a speaker cone to prevent it from generating the same sound as the front.

 

[zoomer0056]

Have you been outside of the vehicle while someone else was on a call?

Excellent question.

 

[ngng]

Have you been outside of the vehicle while someone else was on a call?

 

[mbp11]

I own a 2018 MX 100D and the sound is coming from the dashboard and the side speakers. You can hear bluetooth phone calls excessively from the outside. I now take the call in the car on the cell phone speaker mode and my privacy is preserved.

 

[brkaus]

Walk around a parking lot where parents are waiting to pickup kids. Like soccer, gymnastics, etc. you can hear many of them yapping loud and clear. They don’t even realize it.

 

[ngng]

Your phone plays through the speakers, which are in the doors and dash, and are not insulated. Turn the speaker volume down and your problem should be t resolved

 

[YNaut]

We'll that's what is happening. I'll check with service the next time I'm in to see why this is happening. This is a disappointing forum to be sure

I agree... Sometimes this forum is one notch below reddit. That being said, I have a 2020 and one time the game we were playing started glitching and broadcasting out to external speakers! The entire neighborhood had to hear us finish a level of skyforce reloaded lol. I'd bet that isn't supposed to happen and it was a coding glitch?