Possible to disable 3 warning beeps when opening and shutting doors when keyfob is not in vehicle?

To answer your question.. This is my 5th delivery vehicle. I have boughten all my vehicles with about 45k mi and sold them at over 200k mi. As you an tell, I drive a lot. With my conventional cars I leave them on when I am at the customers door since I will only be away for a minute and I can see my vehicle. When I return to the pizza place, when I cannot see my vehicle or when I will be away from the vehicle for more than a few minutes like when I deliver to a hotel, I will turn off the vehicle and lock the car.

I have always done this and don't think it would be any different with a hybrid. The difference being that with a hybrid, turning it on and off all the time means on every delivery I would have to hit the power button to turn on the vehicle, then drive to the customers house, hit the power to turn it off 30secs - 1 min later hit the power again to turn it back on, drive it back to the shop and hit the power yet one more time to power it off. Now times that sequence for about 120 deliveries a week. That's a lot of button pushes in just one week. Now times that by 52 weeks. That's 25,000 pushes a year not including normal personal driving. Now you see why I want to leave the car on at the customers house.

Second, leaving the key in the car would just be an extra step as I would then have to remember to take the key back out when I go back in the pizza shop. It's not practical. Furthermore, if the engine is warm, you get better MPG. Going from a cold start it takes a while to build up the MPG. When your car reaches S4 mode you will have optimal mpg. In theory, powering off your car will yield lower mpg than leaving it on for those few minutes.

And the reason why the power button lasts so long is probably because people don't press it nearly as much as I would be doing on a daily basis. Even taking into account taxi drivers.

 

[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961)]Is there a way to disable the 3 beep outside alarm when the car is in ready mode and the smart key is out side of the vehicle? I work a job where I exit my car several times a day for a short period of 30 sec - 1 min where it makes no sense to turn off the vehicle especially on cold days where the car needs to warm back up again. I may have 35-40 stops during an entire day and I sometimes work past midnight. The job sometimes requires me to grab items from several spots in my car which means opening several doors and 3 beeps per door can get extremely annoying. Why Toyota didn't allow this to be turned off is beyond me. I have had several people make comments about it and I am tired of defending such a stupid, annoying, useless feature which no other vehicle on the planet has.

Toyota charged me $50 to customize the beeping and I said this is what my main concern is. Since I was there, I had them remove the reverse beep and seatbelt alarm then I go home to find the three beeps are still there. I called Toyota back only to find out those three beeps can't be removed and I spent $50 for nothing because I can deal with reverse beeping and seatbelt alarms but I need to find a way to get rid of these three beeps if at all possible.

If Toyota can't do it is there way I can do it myself with a programmer? According to Toyota the best they can do is bring it down to two beeps and the volume can't be changed. I'm looking in the manual and it says something about a wireless door lock buzzer assembly. I'm wondering if that can be disconnected possibly which might disable all the warning beeps for the doors.

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Yes. I have posted this before and like always instead of ideas always people say turn your car off it will get stolen. First off, if I can't see my car it gets turned off and locked. But it makes no sense to turn off the car when I am 20 ft away from it dropping off an item in a driveway. I've tried keeping my keys in the car, but then when it comes time to lock the car, I forget they are in there and I have to go back in and grab them. It is just much easier to have the alarm silenced.

if someone here actually works for Toyota, maybe they know something about the door lock buzzer assembly or a way to bypass it because I'd rather not turn my car on and off several dozen times a day for a 30 second drop off each time.