Passenger side seat belt alarm

There's instructions here for this mod and others.

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".

• This also works for the seatbelt beep, replace shifting with buckling/un-buckling.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(findlj @ Sep 29 2006, 05:08 AM) [snapback]325474[/snapback]</div>

If all else fails, just buckle the front seat belt.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cagemo @ Sep 29 2006, 02:27 AM) [snapback]325477[/snapback]</div>

I tried this, nothing happened till I sat on the passenger side as far as "b-off" showing up on screen. I will take the wife to diner, we will see if it works.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(forman @ Sep 29 2006, 03:57 PM) [snapback]325805[/snapback]</div>

Yep, It worked.

 

I havent set the passenger alarm off yet! I wonder how much weight before it goes off? <_<

 

Don't know how much weight was on the seat, but I set it off with a work file and my purse on the back edge of the seat. When I moved the purse forward I got it to stop.

 

My briefcase sets it off from time to time - Not much in it other than my laptop.

My dog weighs 20 lbs. The two times I have allowed her in the car, it beeped. I just buckled the belt behind her.

Kid's carseat set it off too. It might weigh 20 lbs. Same thing; buckled the belt behind it.


. . . And NO! The kid was not in the car seat. I had to move it to the front in order to fold down the back seats for some boxes.

 

Couldn't get this to work, either, until I sat in the passenger seat.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(findlj @ Sep 29 2006, 05:08 AM) [snapback]325474[/snapback]</div>

I can't get my dog to ware his seat belt ether!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(stanlwyjohn @ Sep 30 2006, 08:09 AM) [snapback]325973[/snapback]</div>

A hard cover novel in the right place will set it off in my 2005. Also, a lunch box with a bowl of soup and a can of coke will do it. Fortunately, the 2005 defaults to just turning on the seatbelt light for the passenger seat and does not produce an audible alarm.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(forman @ Sep 29 2006, 08:48 PM) [snapback]325872[/snapback]</div>

So I need to be sitting in the passenger seat while going throught thr disabling steps? I tried numerous times while sitting in the driver seat to no avail.
Thanks!

 

A 12-pack of Michelob Light bottles will do it. Yeah, I'm a drunk. But not whilst driving!!!

 

What I would like to know is HOW MUCH weight does it take to set off the passenger seatbelt alarm? i looked in the owners manual and don't see any specs for this. I put my school bag on the passenger seat and it kept telling me to buckle in my passenger. I can put just my purse on the seat and it does not go off, so there must be a weight trigger. Yes I could have put the bag in the back seat, but that is not the point. I am curious--What is the weight limit to set the alarm off?

 

Last night a kind of scary red sign/alarm went off until I moved my pocket book, a case of soda, and some other things around. (They were on the passenger seat.) I've never seen this warning before. I got the impression that the air bag was about to inflate. I was going maybe 5mph. I'm very familiar with the standard polite beeping reminding me to buckle my seat belt. This was different. I also have started keeping a hard plastic basket on the floor between the passenger seat and the glove box. It could have been pressing against the seat and/or the glove box. Also, I usually do buckle the seat belt around my pocket book and other things on the passenger seat, but last night I was in a hurry and didn't do that. Anybody know what the red sign and alarm was about?