Trouble with disable passenger seatbelt beep

Why do that? The car is warning you that you forgot to put on the seatbelt. I personally would want to wear the seatbelt under all circumstances.

 

Can't top that!

 

I often put my computer backpack on the front seat when driving to work. Generally it seems to be light enough not to trigger the alarm... but sometimes (maybe when I rest my arm on the bag)... the passenger seat belt warning beeps continuously until I move the bag onto the floor.

I do not care enough about my computer to strap it into a seatbelt before each trip.

/Jim

 

Put your computer in the back seat or trunk.

If an accident occurs, any loose object inside a car becomes a flying projectile and could cause injury or death. Really.

My handbag gets dumped in the back seat or, if I must keep it in front for some reason, on the floor on the passenger side.

Also don't know how crime-ridden the area you drive in is but in some the sight of a handbag or an expensive item like a computer, can tempt folks to try to reach in an open window or to open the passenger door and rob a car while it's stopped at lights.

Please keep your computer, handbag, whatever could harm you when ricocheting around the interior of your car at 45+ mph, in the trunk or on the floor of the back seat.

 

Clearly, loose interior objects can become a missle and are dangerous. I am generally OK with loose objects on the opposite seat, and in fact... I am usually happier with it there, than in the rear since objects tend to have most of their kinetic energy vectored forward. I agree that the floor of either location is better than on the seat... and that the rear floor is certainly safer than the front seat.

What really concerns me is driving with stuff in the hatchback, which we do quite often. We usually travel to the coast each weekend, and we have a lot of items, at chest level behind us. In my plane... I have a heavy duty cargo containment net that would hold anything (It is made of webbed seatbelt material). I have not been bothering with taking such steps in the car.

/Jim

 

Yes, it is possible to disable the seatbelt beep for the front passenger seatbelt. Use the same sequence as you did when you disabled the beep for the driver's seatbelt. When I did it, I had a passenger sitting in the front seat, to engage and disengage the seatbelt. It didn't work when I tried it with the passenger seat empty.

 

Yes, the key is having a passenger sit in the seat. I couldn't disable it until I tried that.

Ken

 

still having problem disabling drivers belt… what’s the sequence? any tricks ? done it before but I can’t repeat it…… please spare me the lecture about how dangerous this is NBD! i’ve had ‘05&07 since new, So I’m an old dude thank you