Disable your seatbelt chime. DIY
 

I saw a video on disabling the seatbelt chime for subarus and gave it a try on my FRS... and what do you know it worked! Want to pass it on as this will save you from having to buy the diagnostic app and cable.

Put your key into accessory mode.
Next click the drivers seatbelt in 20 times within 30 seconds.
Restart car.
Enjoy your non beeping car

Actually just put my car in gear and it went through one round of beeps then Stopped. Someone else try this and let me know if you find the same thing.

It still beeps, I think it's totaled

Why would someone bother doing this?

Really?
You believe it?

Stupid, I prefer the elm 327 OBD II bluetooth dongle + carista app it worked on my friends car to disable the DRLs when he didn't want them before his winjet install and afterwards when he wanted the LEDs to work, as well as many other unnecessary beeps, buzzes and warning. It's less than $20 total and use the CEL and emissions scan and removal on any vehicle as well as customizations on any BMW, audio, toyota or lexus vehicle. I didn't disable the driver's one because that's stupid I disabled the passenger one, because occasionally someone will put a bag there and it'll beep and flash.

I hate it when random people just put their bags in my seat without asking. It's like, what the hell is this doing here?

Lmao idk why I couldn't stop laughing at "what the hell is this doing here"

Did he die

Yes. He was thrown free of the vehicle because he wasn't wearing his seat belt. Sure, that car is pretty mangled, but if he had remained in his seat, he would have had more of a chance of survival among the airbags than flying free through the air and impacting something hard.

I told this story in that street racing thread. Once when I was in television I covered a single car accident involving a brand new Mustang being driven by a college student. The car had gone off the road and ended up rolling over gently onto its side in the grass. By the time I got there it was back on its wheels. It had a big dent in the door and was a little scraped up on that side, but otherwise the car was in amazingly good shape. I'm pretty sure you could have driven it home.

You could have, but not the driver. That big dent in the door was caused by his head. When the car tilted gently over, it dumped him face first into the ground, where his head somehow ended up under the car.

Because he wasn't wearing a seat belt.

OP may be a troll as Tcoat thinks. If not, I'm sure he's rolling his eyes because he didn't want a lecture. I don't really care. I covered way too many wrecks where the driver and/or passengers would have survived had they been wearing seat belts. I covered one where an entire family of five (two adults, three kids) was ejected from a Geo Tracker during a rollover. They ended up all over the interstate. I had shots of blood-soaked stuffed animals, I kid you not. Only the mother survived.

Wear your fucking seat belt.

Is there some compelling reason that I don't know about for not wearing a seat belt?

Was there an answer as to why someone would do this hidden in your response Tcoat?

The one I've heard most often is that it's uncomfortable. I wonder if death is more comfortable?

I did once shoot a story about a guy who survived an ejection. The story I shot was about his very long recovery. At the time we met him, he had already learned how to walk again, but was still having a lot of trouble with vocabulary. Even two years after the wreck, I don't think he was very comfortable.

I always remember this safety video I had to watch where a dude was burned all over his body because he didn't wear the proper safety equipment because it was uncomfortable.

Well stop leaving your car unlocked at the nude beach!

I personally survived a crash that would surely have killed my had I not been wearing a seatbelt. Don't be ignorant, wear the damn seatbelt!

By the way, in the interest of providing a solution rather than just bitching about the problem...

If you find your seat belt to be uncomfortable where it cuts into your neck (a common problem for many twin drivers), consider getting a set of these:

http://www.emdomusa.com/v/vspfiles/photos/EU184-2.jpg

Emdom GT86 Seat Belt Shoulder Pad Set

A member here ( @shiumai ) had a local company that made rifle slings prototype this for him. They made more and started selling them. I have used the seat belt pads you can buy at the local auto parts store, and these are far, far superior, both in quality and comfort. With the red stitching, they look like original equipment, and people who have seen mine are surprised to learn they didn't come with the car.

The only down side (but not really a down side) is that they are made with fabric cartridge loops for you to be able to run the seat belt loop on the shoulder of your seat through. Doing this is supposed to keep the pad and seat belt in place. Unfortunately if you attach it that way, the seat belt does not slide easily through the pad and does not retract, so when you get out of your car you have a floppy seat belt slinging the buckle all over the place. It was a good idea that just didn't quite work.

Easy fix: Just don't attach it that way. They are comfortable enough without being directly looped to the seat, and long enough that they really don't slide down at all while in use. And not having them looped to the seat itself makes it easier to slide them to adjust to your own body.

No you have NO EXCUSE for not wearing a seat belt.

Well, there's that daily trip from mailbox to the house. It's all of 100 yards, and I don't think I'll be killed at 10mph.

Or I'm in the driveway, listening/checking the engine or whatever, getting in & out of the car. Seat belt won't help if the tree falls on me. But no, I'm not going to try this solution. Sounds like an attempt to crash the computer.

The inserting a seatbelt 20 times is a Subaru feature. Most people in the Subaru forums have disabled the chime. It will still do the chime at start up, but not after that.

I always wear my seatbelt driving. But I disabled it on my Subarus so I don't have to hear the stupid chime when I'm working in the car with the engine running.

Darn it, now I know why i alway felt something amiss after I moved to Vegas from Vancouver. Out of all places they need a nude beach here!

He ded

You seriously drive 100 yards to the mailbox?

That's an interesting point. Does it still beep in a BRZ with nobody in the seat, since these seats have a switch to detect when there's someone sitting in them?

I drive 50 yards from my mailbox to the house...on my way home, without wearing my seatbelt.

Not sure if it chimes with no one in the seat. On my Legacy, disabling the chime also disables the chime on the passenger seat. Disabling the chime is listed in the Legacy manual.

Ahh...Darwin at his best.

If you're stupid enough not to wear a seat belt you'll pay the price. But how about the other person involved in the accident that now has to live with possibly being the cause of of your death.

And DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!!!

I'm still recovering from spinal surgery because someone thought it was more
important to text than to hit her brakes. I've been in pain going on 2 years because of this.

^

For a good part of my first 20 years of driving many of my cars didn't even have seat belts.
During my weeding reception my buddies thought it would be fun to pour confetti into the defroster so they broke into my 58 Chev. What they didn't know was that they screwed up the door latch in the process. Wife an I were headed to hotel and I turn a corner and the door fly's open. Wasn't really in danger but it scared the crap outta me since I was not really held in the car by anything else!


Can't even remember what it is like to drive without a belt now.

LOL at that story. When I was about 15, my dad bought a '59 Chevy Apache pickup truck. It didn't have seat belts, and it had a bad driver's side door latch. That sucker would fly open so easily that I just got used to driving with one hand on it to hold it closed. If I forgot to hold it closed, it would scare the shit out of oncoming traffic.

My first car was a Triumph that stayed broken more than it ran, so I drove that old Apache a lot. It's a real wonder I'm still alive.

Now that we have the safety equipment, though, we should use it.

From age 6 to 10 I rode around in my dad's 51 ford pickup that didn't even have doors much less seatbelts! It was ok though as he gave the very express instructions to "hang on" every time he turned and there were enough springs sticking through the seat to hold you in place.

No, I stop at the mailbox on the way home. Yes I do it very seriously.:D


I did not know that. Might try it if the beeping starts to bug me too much.

What, all of the minute it takes to drive yo your house? Come on, be honest. You don't use the SB.