Who disables the beeping

[stanleyjohn]

Im just wondering who disables the annoying safty beepers in the prius.I dont! ive come close a few times of doing something stupid!when the beep saved me.

[Salsawonder]

Mine has been disabled for a while and I have no intentions of changing it. It should have been made to beep outside the car not inside.

[Jack Straw]

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[rfred]

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Mine has been disabled for a while and I have no intentions of changing it. It should have been made to beep outside the car not inside.
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There is a way to make a buzzer signal that is audible both inside and outside of the car:

http://www.priusclubsd.com/info/buzzerinstall.pdf

[Godiva]

I chose the leave everything alone although I did disable the back up beep. I replaced it with another beeper in the taillight so it could be heard outside as well as inside. The rest I left alone.

[aaf709]

I waited almost a year before I disabled the reverse beep. I'm planning to add a reverse sensor system, which will beep, but the rate is based on how close the object is.

[marjam]

I disabled the back-up beep and will soon do the seatbeal beep. I found that too many different things causing the beep caused me to ignore the beep. I want the car to beep if I leave the key in the slot, or do something stupid (like turning on the lights after I got out of the car!) but everything else was an annoyance. I, too, wish it beeped outside when you back up.

[Presto]

Turning off the reverse beep would be good, but the car doesn't go ape**** on you if you open the door while in reverse.

[harrv]

I turned off the backup beep because I consistently have to wait in reverse for up to a minute for a safe space to back up onto my street. The beeping that long drove me crazy.

Regarding the seatbelt beep, I never hear it when I'm the only one in my car (because I wear my seatbelt). The only time I hear it is when my daughter forgets to put hers on, or when she takes it off too early as we're approaching the house. I like the beep in those cases--it helps train her better.

[rufaro]

I never had a backup beep in any other car I have ever owned and I see no need for one now. As to installing an exterior beep...nope, I plan to not be forced to move out of my neighborhood by angry neighbors who get pissed off if I leave my garage late at night or early in the morning, thank you very much. People in carparks who are oblivious are oblivious...I doubt a beeper is gonna change that. And lots of cars, even ones NOT running on electricity, are really quiet, and don't have beeps. If you haven't hit any other MFD control buttons, the backup camera is on the screen--a pretty good clue you are in reverse, if you haven't done the mod to be able to switch it on whenever. Additionally, I think it is very important to retrain myself to just make sure I hit the park button and the parking brake whenever I stop for any length of time. As to when I am leaving the car...well, virtually no automatic cars will let you take the key out of the ignition without the tranny being in park--so why not just pretend you're driving any old automatic and put the car in Park before turning it off? It is, after all, just at the top of the "gear" shifter--pretty normal for automatics...I dunno--lots of stuff with the Prius is about retraining yourself. So I'm retraining myself to push park and step on the parking brake (which I HAVE found is necessary, unlike in many other automatics--I leaned against the rear bumper a coupla times w/out the p. brake set and the car moved quite a lot more than I was happy with...)

I don't care about the seatbelt beeps--I always wear mine, and if it tells me my passengers need to buckle up, kewl. Actually, I haven't noticed beeps for my seatbelt--I just realized I moved the car last night a few spaces down the street w/out my belt on and it kept quiet, but when I've had a passenger who hasn't, um, belted up, it gets quite hysterical...