[ KB ] How to eliminate Reverse Beep & Seatbelt Beep

[Danny]

Category: 4 Known Issues
Type: Modifications

Article Name: How to eliminate Reverse Beep & Seatbelt Beep
Author: AdminCoop
Description: Step by step instructions on how to eliminate the Reverse & Seatbelt Beeps

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[howie]

There is one caveat to this procedure. No one can sit in the passenger seat while attempting to complete this task.

A funny story: This weekend my wife and I decided to turn off the beeper. We like to support each other and do things together. So I would touch the buttons from the driver's seat while she read the directions to me from the passenger's seat. Each time we tried to turn off the beeper "b-on" would never appear. We tried it at least 6 times. Then she got out of the car to do something else and the directions worked perfect. Except I didn't know how to change the setting - she was reading the directions and left. I got all excited and called her back to show her that it worked. She sat in the seat and it didn't work. I tried a couple of more times and then realized - it might not work when someone is sitting in the passenger seat. Sure enough, when she got up it worked again.

Howie

[JJay]

That explains why it didn't work the first time I tried it, too. I had some books on the seat!

Thanks for the info!

[jamarimutt]

Wouldn't it be much simpler if the screen had a settings menu in which you could turn the beep on or off? I can't believe that Toyota would make a simple procedure so complex, especially in a car equipped with four computers and an LCD screen.

[bobmcgregor]

Like the previous reply my wife and I were both in the car and finally after dozens of attempts she suggested we try it with the emergency brake on - low and behold the elusive "b on" appeared!

We were then able to disable the annoying beeping!!

She was sitting in the passenger's seat when we disabled the beeper.

[HTMLSpinnr]

Brian and I were helping someone disable their reverse beep at the Sierra Club event. We couldn't seem to get it done together, but when Brian went to his car to do it alone, it worked in his. I then moved from the passenger seat to the driver's seat, and of course it then worked. In the cars we were trying it in, the passenger seat needed to be unoccupied.

[aknee87]

While the recipe for disabling the back-up beeper worked great in my car, when I tried doing it for a friend in her car, it wouldn't work. (She was sitting in the passenger seat, I in the driver's seat.) For kicks and out of desperation, we fastened our setabelts and then performed the sequence and voila, it worked. I honestly don't know whether she had the emergency brake engaged or not.

[peter]

I cant get this to work in a brand-new european prius. Belt warning does work however, so i seem to be close.

What happens is that when i release the odo button the odo readout will
roll over to odoA

Any more clues ?

Peter

[bookrats]

I'm renting a Prius this weekend (Know Thy Obsession). Besides being an education for myself, it's the first time my partner has had a chance to ride in a Prius.

Last evening, I was about to back into a parking space; I turned to her and said, "You're not going to like this." And then, of course, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP.

I parked, and she looked at me and said, "Can you turn this off?" I replied to the affirmative, at which point she said, "Good -- 'cause that noise would drive me crazy when I get one of these!"

...It's a very addictive car.

[swepri]

Peter, on our European Prius we can't disable the reverse beep. Sad but true :cry:

/Paj