Poll - How many have disabled reverse Beep

I disabled the reverse beep and had a forward beep installed. Since I am in D much more often than R, I thought it would be much more useful.

 

there is NOTHING wrong about disabling it!

the toyota sales guy did it for me today, and i told him about the method posted on here and he said it is COMPLETELY safe and will affect nothing else but take away the annoying beep.

took mine off before i left the lot.

 

Why WOULD anyone disable it? Have you ever actively disabled it in any of your previous cars?

 

How come I don't get to vote twice??? That was the first thing I did on both my wife's and my Tourings.

 

What outside beeper are people using? I bought one over the internet that turned out to be a piece of junk. It beeped when going forward and even beeped when the car was stationary. I couldn't send it back because I was afraid it would beep when in the mail.

 

I disabled mine within the first week. It seemed kinda dumb to have the annoying beep on the inside and not the outside. I mean, if someone has to be reminded that hey are in R, they probably shouldn't be driving anyway?

No. None of my other cars were dumb enough to have a beep to remind the driver that they were backing up. If they had, I would have disabled it too.

 

Turned it off last night. Now every time I back out of the driveway I get this silly smile on my face, tilt my head back and say, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhh". I suspect my eyes may even close, but just for a moment.

Bob

 

My first mod was to disable the awful noise! I would have preferred to just turn the volume down on it, but no such hack exists. Caution, though: if you back up a bit at a stop light and forget to put it back to drive you will be in for a sudden embarrassing surprise when the light changes!:sorry:

I would like a bird like chirping outside during back-up that I could barely hear inside.

Lee

 

Now it works just like all the other cars I have driven for 40 years....

Bob

 

I disabled the beep the first week I had my car. No problems at all as a result of the hack.

 

You should put an option..

Want to very badly, but just been too busy or too lazy to do it...

This is me, I hate the beep, so annoying, but I just have not had the time to actually try it..

Soon, I will get this done, Maybe this weekend

 

Why did you have to remind me of that horrid sound?

 

What a crazy list of reasons we all have, pro & con, about the beep.

My reason for keeping the thing --

Rear visiblity, of course, leaves something to be desired. During the winter when I bought the car, I told myself that once I stop wearing bulky jackets, it'll be easier to swivel around. Sadly, not so.

So, I try to minimize my reversing time, and minimize my trying to approximate how many mms. left between me & the object behind. I just leave a wider berth than when I've driven other cars.

And so, the annoying beep lets me know to get out of R, as soon as I can.

Go figure.

 

Turned mine off first week of ownership-thanks to this forum!

 

How did you do it?

 

Thread is 11 years old and the person you are asking has not been online here in almost 8 years.

 

Disabling the Reverse Beep | PriusChat

 

Thank you. I kinda like the beep myself. Reminds me I’m in reverse.

 

Same with me. It's annoying but functional.

Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.

 

thats not the ONLY beeping sound I have disabled

being stuck in line at a fast food joint.
yikes. relentless beeping if im too close to another vehicle. dialed down to the min it offered... beeps for 3 seconds

still too much IMO