disconnecting seatbelt sound??

[Tyler2216]

Any know how to disconnect the seatbelt sound when you start the car without disconnecting the power seats? got an 05 GT limited

[havanisda]

There's a wiring harness u can disconnect under the drivers' seat. I don't remember which color it is but it won't affect any seat functions if u get the right 1. I think it's white but I also disabled the DRLs under the dash and that might be the white 1, can't recall.

[Dookie]

The white one under the dash is for the DRL.

There are 6 plugs under the seat, can't remember which one it is, but if you follow the wire from the seat belt connect I'm sure you'll find the right one.

[2.5sbd]

http://www.legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52672&highlight=seat+belt

I am just worried that this may cause the air bags not to deploy because of the car not knowing that some one is sitting there.

[john]

There's a method on legacygt.com to disable the chime, which involves the key in the on position and buckling/unbuckling the seatbelt something like 20 times.

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6210&referrerid=11139

I find this prefereable to cutting wires.

[Dookie]

Another way to do it, and it's the way I always do, is just connect the seatbelt to the connector.......bingo.....no more chime...:lol:

[2.5sbd]

There's a method on legacygt.com to disable the chime, which involves the key in the on position and buckling/unbuckling the seatbelt something like 20 times.

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6210&referrerid=11139

I find this prefereable to cutting wires..

I was looking for that thread ... Im glad you found it John
BTW the one I found just involves unplugging a connector but stays until you want it back to chiming

[FLlegacy]

I suppose if wearing your seatbelt is annoying then the noise must drive people absolutely nuts.

Cheapest and smartest thing to do is use your seatbelt...seriously no inconvenience is going to be worse than the all the money and time you are going to spend in the hospital if you are ever in a serious crash. And that is if you are lucky enough to survive.

[john]

Holy epic thread bump! :)

And yes - wear the damn thing. It's designed to PROTECT you.

[FLlegacy]

I have seen worse thread bumps. LOL I will check the date next time.

[kagenmateer]

I always wear my seatbelt in traffic, but there are times when I move the car a short distance and choose not to wear it. For this reason, I do the "click method" referenced earlier. Works great. It's annoying that I have to re-do it when the car gets reset, but I don't mind much.

[Dookie]

http://eroundlake.com/blog/uploaded_images/clickticket-704607.JPG

[TSi+WRX]

I suppose if wearing your seatbelt is annoying then the noise must drive people absolutely nuts.

Cheapest and smartest thing to do is use your seatbelt...seriously no inconvenience is going to be worse than the all the money and time you are going to spend in the hospital if you are ever in a serious crash. And that is if you are lucky enough to survive.

^ Like kagenmateer, for me, it's not about wearing the seat belt when I'm driving (and yes, even in bumper-to-bumper traffic, I never remove the belt). I'm religious with that, simply because that's the way I've been brought up.

How religious?

Let's just say that my daughter, as soon as she could speak the words, always said "buckle up!" whenever we got in the car. :p:tup:

For me, the chime is an annoyance when, like kagenmateer, I'm either working on the car or when I hop in it to turn it around for the night (I favor nose-out parking)...while the former is self-explanatory (who'd want to listen to the endless chime, when the car's switched on but parked, as you plug-in to update your datalogger or other vehicle electronics?), the latter is also not unsafe, as I have a detached garage and all of about a 40-ft. wide area of my driveway, encircled by my yard and house, to turn around in.

[TurboLegman]

I dont need a stupid beep to remind me to wear a belt! I always wear my belt and its automatic like putting the car in gear to go! I use the click method when I first purchased the car in '07, so if ever needed, it can be reset it!

[FLlegacy]

I am curious how far you are moving the car without your seatbelt on, that the chime could be that annoying. My driveway is only 20 ft I wouldn't get going fast enough (8mph is where it starts I believe) for the chime to even start if I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. I can understand that it is annoying, but not that there is a need to disable it, sorry guys your arguments don't hold water.

edit: and now that I think about the post up a few spots, it would probably take you longer to click the belt than just move the car...you guys are funny.

[TurboLegman]

I am curious how far you are moving the car without your seatbelt on, that the chime could be that annoying. My driveway is only 20 ft I wouldn't get going fast enough (8mph is where it starts I believe) for the chime to even start if I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. I can understand that it is annoying, but not that there is a need to disable it, sorry guys your arguments don't hold water.

edit: and now that I think about the post up a few spots, it would probably take you longer to click the belt than just move the car...you guys are funny.
I guess you forgot that the Turbo has to warm up! I start the car then while it's warming up, I reach for the "GPS" in the glove box, set it, then the "One Pass" is put in place. Then after doing this, I fasten the belt, put the car in gear, look both ways and go! Glad you thought I was funny but:cool: I really was serious, but no argument!

[FLlegacy]

what does warming up have to do with moving your car in the driveway, my car only chimes if you dont have your belt on and you go over 8 mph otherwise you can do as you wish that is why I commented on the need to disable it at all if you are only concerned with it being annoying when moving the car in the driveway.

[TurboLegman]

what does warming up have to do with moving your car in the driveway, my car only chimes if you dont have your belt on and you go over 8 mph otherwise you can do as you wish that is why I commented on the need to disable it at all if you are only concerned with it being annoying when moving the car in the driveway.
I don't move my car once I park! Like I said earlier, I don't need a chime to tell me I have to do something! I wear my belt always.
Soon all things will be done for you so all you have to do is get in the car and sit! Toyota is well on their way to this!
Cars are parking themselves, stopping by themselves, checking to see if you are too close and correcting and checking to see if you are dozing! I guess you like those features, I don't. I enjoy driving and don't want a computer doing it for me!
If you just want to bicker back and forth, we can do that, off topic!

[john]

I guess you forgot that the Turbo has to warm up!

*rofl*

[TSi+WRX]

I am curious how far you are moving the car without your seatbelt on, that the chime could be that annoying. My driveway is only 20 ft I wouldn't get going fast enough (8mph is where it starts I believe) for the chime to even start if I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. I can understand that it is annoying, but not that there is a need to disable it, sorry guys your arguments don't hold water.

For whatever reason, almost as soon as my car rolls forward, it'll start re-chiming.

I was never able to "disable" mine to the extent that others have done with theirs via the prescribed "click" method.

Also, what's strange is that my "disable" procedure has held through many ECU reflashes and resets. :confused: Winky's been with me since May of 2005, and since that time, she's been tuned twice - both times countless reflashes - I've reflashed her once, myself, and I've also reset her ECU many, many times. My "disable" has held.

And no, I don't get anywhere near 8 MPH in my driveway. :lol: That's just asking for trouble, with its length and dimensions! :lol:

I was able to confirm this, actually, just today when I came home from work. During my turn-around procedure, my Cheetah GPS-Mirror never acquires a speed (although its compass, which is also GPS-based, continues to revolve/adjust according to the real-time heading of the vehicle). This means that my GPS-measured speed must be less than 5 MPH. I've yet to try to cross-confirm this with my TomToms - the GPS-Mirror is easy, it's hardwired into my car.


edit: and now that I think about the post up a few spots, it would probably take you longer to click the belt than just move the car...you guys are funny.
Definitely not.

With the turning radius of the wifey's '09 FXT, it's, most of the time, a two-point job from her side of the garage/driveway. I usually have to hit things "just right," in order for that to happen.

With my LGT, given my side of the garage and the house/driveway configuration, unless I wanted to back over the lawn, I'm usually a three-point, if not 4....and that's with the *minimal* difference in turning circle that these two cars present with.

There's no way that clicking the belt takes longer.

[ Aside: I haven't sought to disable the chime in my wife's '09 FXT - Why? It seems that the between-chimes interval is much longer. I'm able to turn her car around without the chimes intruding, at all, most of the time. Furthermore, there's nothing for me to "do" in her car - unlike in mine, below..... ]

Besides, none of that still takes care of the annoyance of working on the car, and having that persistent chime.

My chosen ECU interface is EcuTeK. Its proprietary dongle is resident in my car. Since its software updates are frequent, I typically spend quite a few minutes every month or so, downloading the update via my home or work WiFi via my dedicated Netbook or laptop. The same goes for my GPS-Mirror, as well as my other speed-detection countermeasures, which all update in nearly the same manner. That's a considerable amount of time in the car, with nothing to do but to endure the endless chiming or actually buckling up.

And that's not counting the many, many hours of work I've put in inside the car for gauges and other ancillary electronics - things which I needed to do with a lot of mobility.

It's fine that you think the way you do - but please don't insult those of us who do not think the same as you. That's just uncharitable and un-necessary, particularly in this case, where it truly does not impact the safety of either the driver or of others. :mad: :(

To assume that anyone in the BL/BP community disables the chime so that they can go around Miami Vice style is over-generalization and to think the worst of one's fellow brothers and sisters in the hobby/community.

The truth of the matter is that most of us in our 30s and younger - as well as many in their 40s - were brought up in a time when seat-belt use were hammered and etched into our formative brains, while those who are older would certainly either have had their kids or other younger relatives nag them into such habits (as I did with my father) or, alternatively, have encountered sufficient public-safety persuasion (i.e. citations and fines) to again cure them of their bad habits.

[FLlegacy]

I am sub 30 myself and have never had a problem with the seatbelt chime at all, I just don't understand why it is such a big deal to disable it if you wear the seatbelt it shouldn't intrude on anything you are doing if the car is parked. Just seems like one person finds a way to disable a safety feature of the car and everyone jumps on the bandwagon to do a seemingly useless mod just for the sake of having modded something. I am not putting anyone down and I apologize if it came off that way, I am actually amused at how many people do this mod, and not just on here on the forester forums but on lgt.com as well. I can see disabling the chime for having the key in the ignition with the door open that can be quite aggravating.

I don't move my car once I park! Like I said earlier, I don't need a chime to tell me I have to do something! I wear my belt always.
Soon all things will be done for you so all you have to do is get in the car and sit! Toyota is well on their way to this!
Cars are parking themselves, stopping by themselves, checking to see if you are too close and correcting and checking to see if you are dozing! I guess you like those features, I don't. I enjoy driving and don't want a computer doing it for me!
If you just want to bicker back and forth, we can do that, off topic!

Clearly dude you need a chill pill or something, if you aren't moving your car in the driveway then clearly my post was not meant for you. And no I don't want my car doing anything for me, I am really not all that happy with the drive by wire system. We all have our petpeeves clearly the chime is yours.

[TSi+WRX]

I am sub 30 myself and have never had a problem with the seatbelt chime at all, I just don't understand why it is such a big deal to disable it if you wear the seatbelt it shouldn't intrude on anything you are doing if the car is parked. Just seems like one person finds a way to disable a safety feature of the car and everyone jumps on the bandwagon to do a seemingly useless mod just for the sake of having modded something. I am not putting anyone down and I apologize if it came off that way, I am actually amused at how many people do this mod, and not just on here on the forester forums but on lgt.com as well. I can see disabling the chime for having the key in the ignition with the door open that can be quite aggravating.

I see what you're saying - my apologies, in-turn, for having jumped down your throat. :o

I certainly understand your point-of-view, yes, it does seem as if topics such as this - various ways of disabling or circumventing various "safety nannies" - tend to attract more than their worth's share of attention.

Perhaps it speaks partly to human nature: that we simply want to do what we're told not to :lol:. But in all honesty, I do think that there are also many more practical applications of such.

The working on stationary car/seat-belt-chime disable is one such perspective, and similarly, I'm among those who've disabled the DRL not necessarily as an aesthetic mod, but also due to ancillary safety considerations (poor turn-signal delineation, undue glare to oncoming, headlamp life considerations). I can also definitely see where, truly, having the ability to disable aids such as ABS and traction-control can come in handy, under *specific* situations (i.e. wanting the car to "snowplow" to a stop and to aid extrication on low-friction surfaces, respectively).

Alas, it's also true that many do undertake disabling such features with little thought to the potential consequences.

[Dookie]

** Let's keep this thread civil please, thx.

[kagenmateer]

TSi- I tried the click method enough times to conclude that it was a big joke and didn't actually work. But one day I figured out how to go slower and be very deliberate with each click. Then it started working for me.

[Dookie]

Why don't people just disconnect the wiring harness under the seat?

[havanisda]

Why don't people just disconnect the wiring harness under the seat?That's what I did. :tup:

[andrew.anderson]

That's too easy :) :tup:

[john]

Why don't people just disconnect the wiring harness under the seat?

Because I dig the "ding ding ding"...

[havanisda]

"ding ding ding"...http://sydlexia.com/imagesandstuff/nes100/miketysonspunchout.png

[TSi+WRX]

Because I dig the "ding ding ding"...

^ :D

But honestly....

I figured that if, for whatever reason, I had a ministroke and totally forgot to put on my seat-belt one day, the reminder would save me. :)


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kagenmateer - That's very interesting...I have to return to the car to try that: going slower on the clicks. Thanks for the tip!