Disabling reverse beep/seatbelt beep on an 06'

I only noticed it after I turned off the reverse beep; but the border around the "R" in the instrument cluster blinks when you are in reverse.
I haven't seen that mentioned and it's not in the manual (did it always blink? learning something new every hour ).

I have conditioned myself to double check what gear I am in before letting up off the brake. Now with the Prius, a glance at the instrument cluster will quickly confirm which gear you are in. The blink is very eye catching. I definitely don't miss the BEEP .

 

Disabling Reverse Beep
• Power on the car, Cycle ODO/TRIP, stopping on ODO, Power off the car.
• Power on, within 6 seconds, hold ODO for at least 10 seconds.
• While still holding ODO shift into Reverse and back into Park.
• b-on shows on speedometer display, press ODO to cycle to "b-off".

Do you see the "b-on" on the speedometer? You can then release and press ODO again to see the "b-off"

 

I would really rather the beep was outside, at the rear of the car. I would still hear it, but the safety value would be much better for warning pedestrians. Has anyone done or conisdered this modification?

 

See this thread for complete details... it worked for me in my new 06. I think there may be caveats I've read about maybe the doors needing to be closed, and maybe no passenger in the passenger seat... not sure about that. The dealer you bought from should be able to help you out, if it comes to that.

 

re-enable the beep before you ask 'em to do warranty works.

I disabled the beep the 2nd day I got my car. Didn't have the time to disable it on the 1st day.

 

Mine came with the reverse beep and seat belt beep already dissabled when I bought it as far as I know. Heck... I dont even know how to use the "beep removal" wrench. That is my story and I am sticking to it... espcially if they tried to deny a warrany claim.

Speaking of which... my reverse beep and driver seatbelt beep are now disabled... but when I was driving to work yesterday with my backpack on the passenger seat... about half way to work the passenger seatbelt alarm started going crazy. Do the driver and passenger seatbelt alerts need to be dissabled independently?

/Jim

 

Same for me. Try as I might, I can't get my '06 into b-off mode.

 

I have an '06 package 8... and it worked perfectly for me.

/Jim

 

I have 06' pkg 8 and same procedure works for me.

When disabling the passenger belt beep, you can just sit on the passenger seat to perform the sequence. You don't actually have to get the car to start(ready), just pressing power twice to get to the odo/trip display would work fine. (better if you are doing this in a closed garage so engine won't kick in at some point.)

The driver seat initial beeps is mandated by law I believe which is why it can't be disabled like the reminder beeps.

 

Void what part of the warranty -- the warranty on the back-up beeper? It's well established that modifications you do to your car can only affect the warranty on systems that are DIRECTLY RELATED to whatever you've done.

 

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I just bought an 06 Prius and tried the Reverse Beep and Seatbelt beep hack and it works like a CHAMP. Nore more annoying beeps.