Annoying seatbelt reminder...... - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

CasinoKiD · 02-03-2005, 03:12 PM

Ok heres the deal....if I dont buckle my seatbelt in my 05 Camry an annoying beeping starts. I normally use my seatbelt but I live in an apt complex where I have to drive to the trash dumpster and times like that I wouldnt normally wear it. Is there anything I can do to stop it?

chronoti · 02-03-2005, 04:07 PM

find the chiming thing and remove it or jump the sensor so it's always thinks your seat belt is buckled

what part of clearwater do you live at?

Admiral · 02-03-2005, 04:34 PM

buckle it up, then sit in.

Ostornadoe · 02-03-2005, 04:42 PM

Why not just always wear it? Even if you're driving a very short distance, someone else may be flying through that area and hit you, and a seatbelt could save your life. Does it really hurt to take the extra 2 seconds to put it on?

jhbhatia · 02-03-2005, 05:01 PM

have the belt me placed and then sit in the car!

CasinoKiD · 02-03-2005, 05:29 PM

I live right near Clearwater Toyota.....

***ASG14*** · 02-03-2005, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Ostornadoe

Why not just always wear it? Even if you're driving a very short distance, someone else may be flying through that area and hit you, and a seatbelt could save your life. Does it really hurt to take the extra 2 seconds to put it on?

I have been in more close accidents just driving on my campus. Buckle up! 2 more seconds is worth saving your life!

jjanari · 02-03-2005, 05:53 PM

certainly good policy to wear the belt, but I've placed files in my passenger seat in my '05 and it thinks someone is sitting there, so it starts to chime. It is pretty obnoxious.

kenny1773 · 02-03-2005, 06:49 PM

I agree the belt chime is completely stupid. I will tell you what I have figured out so far and as soon as the weather warms up I will figure out the rest,

There is a magnet inside the seat belt base (the female part), when you insert the seat belt clip (the male part) it pushes a magnet down inside the base, that magnet hits a sensor on a small circuit board, once that contact is made, the car thinks the belt is buckled.

I put a magnet on the sensor thinking I could just fool the system into thinking the belt was always on. This did work, but there was a complication (I should note that I was only fiddling with the passenger side) and that is the air bag sensor.

For some reason when you put the magnet in place to fool the sensor, after a few days it will start turning the air bag off when someone actually sits in the seat (first day it works correctly). If you remove the magnet and put it back, the air bag will turn on again (like it should) when someone sits in the seat. After a few days it goes back to turning the airbag off.

I pulled the seat belt BEHIND the pasenger seat and plugged it in to fool the system, I get the same result as the above with the magnet in place. For some reason it starts to turn the air bag off after a few days. So the magnet theory is good, but the circuit must have some kind of timer on it that screws with the airbag if the magnet is in place for say 48-72 hours without the connection being broken.

I hope that made sense.

What I have concluded is that the speaker that makes the noise is what has to be disabled so you don't screw up the air bag system. I read somewhere (maybe in this forum somewhere) that the speaker that makes the chime is securely connected into the side of the instrument cluster (and the connections are very hard to get to).

When I get some time and it warms up, I am going to try and find this speaker and put an on/off toggle switch in line with it. This way I can turn on the chime for the state safety inspection (and if I ever sell it, I can solder the wire on and take the switch out easily) then all other times I can turn it off so the car 'feels' more like my trusty 1995 camry

I also saw somewhere instructions on how to turn the gauge cluster lights blue, this had a detailed explanation on how to remove the gauge cluster. I figured that would be useful for finding this speaker. If I can dig these links up again I will post them. This spring I plan on taking pics and writing up how to disable this blasted chime, it does seem to annoy a lot of people, but few post about it due to the on going seat belt lectures that prevail. I have files a complaint with toyota on it as well.

For those of you that have nothing to add other then 'wear your seatbelt' please don't post here, no one wants to hear it. Start your own thread about the joyous wonders of seat belt wearing if you would like, I promise I won't post there.

Meanwhile I will be doing 0-160mph runs on my seatbeltLESS motorcycle through your neighborhood

Ostornadoe · 02-03-2005, 07:24 PM

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Meanwhile I will be doing 0-160mph runs on my seatbeltLESS motorcycle through your neighborhood

My last post in this thread.... I love that quote!!!!

Seatbelt wouldn't exactly help if you crashed......

kenny1773 · 02-03-2005, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ostornadoe

My last post in this thread.... I love that quote!!!!

Seatbelt wouldn't exactly help if you crashed......

Yeah put that quote on my tombstone

My point in even saying that is that I partake in far riskier behavior in my everyday life than taking my seatbelt off as I cruise into my parking space or in and out of my neighborhood.

I am a crazy nut on my bike, I can't help it, it's like a disease.
I had sex without condoms
I piss off postal workers
I flip the bird to 300+ lbs body builder types that cut me off in traffic
I mouth off to my wife
I drink AL-CO-HOL (gasp)
I eat fast food and don't exercise enough
I have high cholesterol
I'll tell racial jokes in mixed company
I sometimes ride the bike WITHOUT a helmet
I moutain bike without any safety gear

I AM A @#^%%^#%$ STAISTIC waiting to happen

OF COURSE wearing a seat belt is a good thing (NO ONE NEEDS TO SAY IT) but the chime is completely obnoxious and totally unessesary for anyone of legal driving age. Since I own the car, I am going to make it exactly how I want it, PERIOD>>>>.......

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It would be very nice if those of you that are so inclined would help a brother out and give some tips on how to get at that buzzer

Thanks!

CasinoKiD · 02-03-2005, 09:05 PM

I couldnt agree with you more kenny.... Great posts dude!

felkajamine · 02-03-2005, 10:43 PM

i always thought that once the car is started and then the chime turns on, that you could just buckle your seat belt and then wait two seconds for the chime to go off, and then unbuckle the belt...or does the chime come right back? the cars i have been in are this way, i just dont know about the 05 camry's

kenny1773 · 02-04-2005, 09:15 AM

felkajamine

My 2005 Camry SE has a chime from hell. If either the passenger or the driver remove their (remove or never put it on to start with) seatbelt while the car is moving more than 3 or 5 mph, the chime starts.

The chime gets faster and faster (and seemingly louder, but I can't say for certain) and lasts for a total of 45 seconds. 45 LONG PAINFUL seconds where the radio is even drowned out by it. If you clip in and then clip out, it starts all over again.

If you have anything resting in the passenger seat, and the item moves a little, bing bing bing bing will start and run the whole 45 seconds, make another turn and the items shifts again, and bing bing bing. I don't mean a wild shift either, just a 1/4 inch can do it.

I am a network engineer by profession and I travel with a lot of gear in a large backpack. This backpack constantly sets off the buzzer unless I put it on the floor. I drove for 10 years in the 1995 camry and never had a problem with the backpack on the seat.

This buzzer is not federal law like toyota told me on the phone, that is another things that pissed me off. My firend just bought a brand new 2005 maxima and his car does not do this.

felkajamine · 02-04-2005, 09:29 AM

WOW, that's insanely stupid, who the heck thought of puttin that thing on cars???

sorry man, that sucks