Tip: Stop the beeping alert to fasten seatbelt
Oct 9, 2004, 05:06 PM
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Tip: Stop the beeping alert to fasten seatbelt
On the 04 Evos, if you drive off without fastening the seatbelt, the car will start beeping, and will continue to beep until you either fasten the seatbelt or turn off the ignition.
It annoys me greatly since I have to move the car up and down the driveway. Can't be that bad, righ? Well, my driveway is pretty long, and it's annoying when I take the seatbelt off so I can maneouvre the car in tight spaces.
Well, I discovered that if you disconnect the seatbelt harness, it will stop the annoying beeping altogether. It's a white clip that you can get to by sliding the driver's seat all the way back. It's pretty easy to slide off. One clip and it's off.
Another nice thing is the warning light on the dash to fasten your seatbelt also goes off. I haven't found any side effect as of yet.
Don't get me wrong. I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time. I just don't wear it when I'm moving the cars around in the garage and the driveway.
It annoys me greatly since I have to move the car up and down the driveway. Can't be that bad, righ? Well, my driveway is pretty long, and it's annoying when I take the seatbelt off so I can maneouvre the car in tight spaces.
Well, I discovered that if you disconnect the seatbelt harness, it will stop the annoying beeping altogether. It's a white clip that you can get to by sliding the driver's seat all the way back. It's pretty easy to slide off. One clip and it's off.
Another nice thing is the warning light on the dash to fasten your seatbelt also goes off. I haven't found any side effect as of yet.
Don't get me wrong. I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time. I just don't wear it when I'm moving the cars around in the garage and the driveway.
Oct 9, 2004, 05:13 PM
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I believe you are disconnecting the sensor that is in the seat so it knows when someone is sitting down, thats what I think triggers the alarm...shouldn't affect anything else
Oct 9, 2004, 09:35 PM
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Only problem I see with it is if our cars have a black box. If they do and you get in an accident, the black box will know if you had your seat belt on. If the sensor is disconnected and doesn't register correctly, your insurance could deny any claims if they find out.
But like I said, I don't know if our cars have that capability.
But like I said, I don't know if our cars have that capability.
Oct 9, 2004, 09:36 PM
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i was wondering about the beep and light as well since i planned on getting 4 point harnesses and would not use the standard seatbelt clip so it would be pretty annoying good find lets just hope it doesn 't affect stuff like the airbag as one person said.
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Originally Posted by g6civcx
On the 04 Evos, if you drive off without fastening the seatbelt, the car will start beeping, and will continue to beep until you either fasten the seatbelt or turn off the ignition.
It annoys me greatly since I have to move the car up and down the driveway. Can't be that bad, righ? Well, my driveway is pretty long, and it's annoying when I take the seatbelt off so I can maneouvre the car in tight spaces.
Well, I discovered that if you disconnect the seatbelt harness, it will stop the annoying beeping altogether. It's a white clip that you can get to by sliding the driver's seat all the way back. It's pretty easy to slide off. One clip and it's off.
Another nice thing is the warning light on the dash to fasten your seatbelt also goes off. I haven't found any side effect as of yet.
Don't get me wrong. I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time. I just don't wear it when I'm moving the cars around in the garage and the driveway.
It annoys me greatly since I have to move the car up and down the driveway. Can't be that bad, righ? Well, my driveway is pretty long, and it's annoying when I take the seatbelt off so I can maneouvre the car in tight spaces.
Well, I discovered that if you disconnect the seatbelt harness, it will stop the annoying beeping altogether. It's a white clip that you can get to by sliding the driver's seat all the way back. It's pretty easy to slide off. One clip and it's off.
Another nice thing is the warning light on the dash to fasten your seatbelt also goes off. I haven't found any side effect as of yet.
Don't get me wrong. I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time. I just don't wear it when I'm moving the cars around in the garage and the driveway.
Would'nt it be easier just to latch the seatbelt and just sit on it while you park your car.
Oct 10, 2004, 03:53 AM
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Well, if you think about it logically, it thinks the seatbelt is CONNECTED, not disconnected. If the switch was normally open, and closed when the seatbelt was inserted, this mod wouldn't work. It would have to be normally closed, and open when the seatbelt was connected. That when when you disconnect the harness, it's now open, so it thinks the seatbelt is attached. I'll check it tommorow with a dmm, but I'm 100% sure that is how it works, because it worked on my Jeep. It will think the seatbelt is connected, so the airbags would work.
Oct 10, 2004, 05:28 AM
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If he does , I don't think his airbag would work.
That would be a huge saftey issue and just one more thing for people to sue over. "I didnt know it was disconnected I got the car like that."
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Obviously there are liability issues with this. I only do it because I move cars around the garage a lot. The beeping drives me insane.
I can't hold my head out the window to park the car with the seatbelt on, and I hate that stupid beeping. I don't mind the light.
About the airbag issue, I believe that the system thinks that the seatbelt is fastened all the time. Otherwise, it will not turn off the light, but then again it's a black box so nobody knows. The poster does have a point about accidents and disconnected seatbelts.
There is no sensor in the seat. It's just a little connector in the seatbelt fastener that shorts itself out when it's connected.
I can't hold my head out the window to park the car with the seatbelt on, and I hate that stupid beeping. I don't mind the light.
About the airbag issue, I believe that the system thinks that the seatbelt is fastened all the time. Otherwise, it will not turn off the light, but then again it's a black box so nobody knows. The poster does have a point about accidents and disconnected seatbelts.
There is no sensor in the seat. It's just a little connector in the seatbelt fastener that shorts itself out when it's connected.
Oct 11, 2004, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by g6civcx
On the 04 Evos, if you drive off without fastening the seatbelt, the car will start beeping, and will continue to beep until you either fasten the seatbelt or turn off the ignition.
It annoys me greatly since I have to move the car up and down the driveway. Can't be that bad, righ? Well, my driveway is pretty long, and it's annoying when I take the seatbelt off so I can maneouvre the car in tight spaces.
Well, I discovered that if you disconnect the seatbelt harness, it will stop the annoying beeping altogether. It's a white clip that you can get to by sliding the driver's seat all the way back. It's pretty easy to slide off. One clip and it's off.
Another nice thing is the warning light on the dash to fasten your seatbelt also goes off. I haven't found any side effect as of yet.
Don't get me wrong. I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time. I just don't wear it when I'm moving the cars around in the garage and the driveway.
It annoys me greatly since I have to move the car up and down the driveway. Can't be that bad, righ? Well, my driveway is pretty long, and it's annoying when I take the seatbelt off so I can maneouvre the car in tight spaces.
Well, I discovered that if you disconnect the seatbelt harness, it will stop the annoying beeping altogether. It's a white clip that you can get to by sliding the driver's seat all the way back. It's pretty easy to slide off. One clip and it's off.
Another nice thing is the warning light on the dash to fasten your seatbelt also goes off. I haven't found any side effect as of yet.
Don't get me wrong. I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time. I just don't wear it when I'm moving the cars around in the garage and the driveway.
Simple fix,
go to a junk yard and find any
cut off the seat belt and use the buckle.Should only cost 3 bucks and takes about 3sec. to install.
