No seat belt.
 

The one thing i mostly hate about Toyota is that annoying beep reminding me to put my seatbelt on!
Is there a fuse for this or anyway i can turn that off?
I know its illegal but ill be sure and remember not to give a cop a ride in my car.:thumbsup:

One way to turn off the beeping is to put on your seatbelt : P

You won't hear it beeping if you drive it in to a wall without your seatbelt on. There was a guy selling his OEM seatbelts in classifieds, why not buy and you can cut off the buckle and plug it in when you drive.

Internet is a bad place to ask these type of questions because everyone is a saint and every "safety" feature on a car will save your life daily. I asked how to disable DRLs and a slew of ZOMG WHY PUT YOURSELF AT RISK post ensued.

I assure you this will not be very different.

I wear it, but not if im going down the street. I know how to put on my seat belt. I dont need my car beeping at me the whole time..

I hate the beeping as well, I've never subscribed to the idea of "seatbelt first, then start the car". I do ALWAYS wear my seatbelt, but I don't put it on until I get close to a an actual road. Don't know why, but that's where my OCD habit has formed. Driving through my neighborhood street at 15mph or in a parking lot, I leave it off.

i know on alot of vehicles there is a plug under the seat. just pull the ends apart and it shuts up. at least all my dad's work trucks/vans had this (idk y he was so anti seatbelt)

Is the beep coming from the gauge cluster or the speakers?

If it's coming from the gauge cluster you could try covering the speaker with some electrical or foam tape, or remove the speaker.

I was so tired of the beeping in my Pontiac Vibe (Corolla/Matrix Twin) that I removed the speaker, and I have been living beep free ever sense. Here's the thread I made detailing the mod.
http://forums.genvibe.com/phpBB3/vie...p?f=28&t=25922

Edit: Disclaimer : I always wear my seatbelt when driving. Just don't need my car beeping at me while I get it started.

I freaking love natural selection. Keep doing your part to improve the human race.

indeed. it'll take place when you least expect it.

Is it really that uncomfortable?

This isn't about not wearing the seatbelt, we can all agree that's a dumb idea. The seatbelt is fine. Its about disabling the chime. Disabling the chime may have some stretch of illegality. You CAN have one without the other and still be a safe driver. Geez.

Just remember, the people that do wear thier seatbelts are better than you and they will let you know it. Just look at all the posts above so far.

You would have to actually remove the little speaker that makes the chime. My old corolla had a buzzer that was annoying as hell. i was doing some work on the car that required me to have it running and that buzzer just kept buzzing. I just reached up under the drivers side dash, found the box and unplugged it. I

I know, everyone is so righteous. They remind me of obnoxious non-smokers. For the record, I'm not a smoker.

I'm just surprised people find the chime annoying. It's more of a 'friendly reminder' chime than a 'danger' or 'caution' chime/beep.

This method works on subarus that have the seatbelt beeping feature, its like a nintendo cheat mode,
Turn the ignition to ON. The engine should be off, Within 30 seconds, insert and eject the buckle all the way in and out 20 times, but do 30 to be sure. You can hold the release button down if you like, try it for fun and find out if it works

It would be annoying after minutes of it though.

I've driven my car around for a bit without the belt on (not on the street, I don't care what others do but I do wear the belt on the street, but not around paddocks, driving across airports for autocross sites, etc) and it seems like it stops beeping after 2-3 minutes anyways. Maybe I haven't driven it long enough past that point for it to come back on though.

Usually unplugging the previously mentioned plug under the seat will disable it, but on these new intelligent airbag cars I don't know..

It really goes beyond that (although I agree with you).

You get into an accident and go through your windshield but you don't die. You're rushed into surgery and get some crazy stuff done which costs tons of money. Your insurance only covers say...35K of your 110K bill which saddles you with 75K of medical bills. You pay for a couple years but then realize that filing bankruptcy is easier than paying your bills. You in essence default on your debt.

Think the Hospital just sucks that up? Nope...that's a tax write off. Know who ends up paying for that? Taxpayers.

Safety in cars and on bikes isn't because the government is too touchy feely...it's because tax payers were tired of bailing out people who couldn't pay their bills (not that I blame them directly).

Wear your seatbelt, don't get mangled in an accident, then I won't have to pay your hospital bill.

Since most accidents happen in parking lots I find this decision making to be highly questionable.

Unplugging the seat harness will likely cause an issue with the airbag, because, as mentioned, the "intelligent" system is calculating that you are wearing your seatbelt when the airbag deploys--if not, you will probably hit the airbag sooner in a violent collision, doing some of the aforementioned damage.

OP: In my own opinion (naturally I will respect yours, even if I strongly disagree with it) I prefer to buckle up because it becomes habit, and in an emergency when its necessary, you aren't going to think to put the seatbelt on. But, good luck.

At what speed do these occur?

You can't predict that. You could be doing 5mph and some jackass could come whipping in at 40mph and nail you. It's not how fast YOU are driving, or what you think will happen...it's just being prepared for all eventualities no matter how remote.

Anyway, whatever, I couldn't care less if people don't wear their seatbelts, I was merely pointing out the contradiction in that guys decision making process.

You cant hear it when you're dead! bwahahah jk
Stay safe kids.

Oh I wasn't being sarcastic or anything like that. I was just curious to know if there was an average impact speed since you brought up statistics.

I know what you mean about the 40mph jackass though. I've been paranoid about being a passenger since I lost my best friend due to a drunk driver right before Christmas. I was riding with a college friend, four of us in the car, and he decides to try and drift... his front wheel wrx. Before I could tell him to quit, we went straight into a small tree in a crowded walmart parking lot at 9pm. Everyone was alright, but never again. That only raised my paranoia.

im pretty sure you can just turn it off by disconnecting it under the seat... the tC was like that...

If this is a REAL statistic, I'd like to see it published in official government documents. Moreso, I'd also like to see the percentage of said collisions that resulted in an in-car occupant receiving serious injuries or death from not wearing a seatbelt, or where a seatbelt had likely prevented such injuries. Again, this is in parking lots and other low speed areas, NOT open roads. Pedestrian or cyclists injuries do not count. I don't ever recall seeing anyone, EVER, whip through a typical parking lot at 40mph unless it was completely empty and someone was hooning around. I might buy this if "most accidents" includes bumper scrapes and fender benders, or any time an insurance claim had been placed, but these aren't valid for "a seatbelt saved my life in the parking lot" argument.

Out on the road I'm buckled up 100% of the time. I also encourage others to buckle up, but respect their choice not to do the same.

How did this thread turn from "how do I disable the annoying seatbelt chime" into "you dumbass, I hope you enjoy getting yourself killed".....?

While I always wear my seatbelt out of habit (my dad ingrained into me as a child), I think it's everyone's choice. We're all adults here and if you want to choose to not wear one, that's your decision. Just like not wearing a helmet on a bike, that's your choice. You know how physics work and if you hit your head or fly through the windshield, well.. no surprise. I'm not being condescending about it, I think nothing less of anyone who refuses to wear one -- you know the deal.

I can understand that some people don't want a nagging reminder if they aren't wearing one (for whatever reason). I want to say the seat belt reminder is customizable by Toyota's TechStream at the dealer but I am not sure (DRLs are).

I'm sorry.... but if someone is complaining about the "beeping" from the seat belt, and how annoying it is, lol... than mission accomplished. Pretty sure the intent was for it to get repetitive so that you do buckle up!

It's so annoying that I put my seatbelt on even before it comes on... :)

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Good luck with the damn chime, let us know how you go about it.

I just had my dealer turn it off through the tech stream hookup.

For both driver and passenger?

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Yep, all I have is the light on the dash now, no chime at all.

My friend's STi had a sequence of plug/unplug the seatbelt that would dissable the chime. This feature was nice for anybody who took out the factory belts and installed harnesses. Maybe the FR-S/BRZ has a similar way to beat the chime.:iono:

I was about to say what if your putting in a harness system instead of the standard over the shoulder system. Theirs a way to disable that chime guaranteed.

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wach this, is all you need

It's an IQ test, really. Kind of like the one helmet-less motorcyclist constantly fail; but hey, how YOU donate your organs is your business!:slap:

The NHTSA does not keep track of parking lot accidents; however, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety does. And according to them, just over 20% of all crashes take place in a parking lot.

As for the question of low-speed fatalities, I suggest you look at statistics for motorcycle fatalities in states that don't require helmets... then consider that motorcycles don't even have an explosive device aimed at the rider's head (aka, an airbag, which is designed to be safe only in conjunction with a seatbelt). It doesn't take much speed to be lethal; if memory serves, Indian Larry was doing less than 30 MPH when he fell from his bike and died. Lest you dismiss motorcycle riding as being more dangerous somehow than car driving, NHTSA data states that the vast majority of fatal accidents occur under 50 MPH, and someone cited in a presentation Australian data that concluded that most fatalities occur under 50 KPH (which would be 30 MPH here in the states). Another source I couldn't verify, yet seemed legit, stated that researchers expect fatalities at 15 MPH, if the occupant isn't wearing a seatbelt.

Now, maybe you live in Maybury, where everyone obeys the limits, and uses their turn signals every single time; but where I live, oh yeah... I've seen people doing over 40 across parking lots (usually while cutting across lanes to get to the other side faster). In their haste to get to an empty spot, I've seen people whip into my lane, on my side of the road. Residential streets around here are certainly no better. So yes, it is unsafe to be in a moving vehicle in a parking lot without your seatbelt on.

As for how did this thread get so far off topic? Easy: we make fun of stupidity. You know how, every so often, you get the dumb kid on here (or other car forums) that wants to know which local roads people drift on, or thinks he's cool for posting video of himself street racing on a highway... and the whole community comes down on him like a ton of bricks for engaging in mind-numblingly stupid, dangerous behavior? Yeah... this is the same thing. Sure, we could stick to the topic the OP posted, and just be helpful. OR... we can hopefully shame him into being a smarter driver through peer pressure. At the very least, it teaches the little ones that this is NOT acceptable social behavior (something they may take as tacit approval by silence otherwise).

That is all.

not sure if you were being sarcastic but... He dropped out of my school and went to police academy. That was the least of it though.

Because internet...

Basically any thread that deviates from sainthood will generate flame, which is funny because when I am driving I see maybe 1% of drivers actually driving the speed limit or under.