Sick of the Safety NAZIs

[ClutchFork]

I can't stand the stupid seat belt warning chime. I want to disable it. I found a place sells extenders that look something like this. Will this defeat the stupid chime? I figure the chime is turned off by the metal tab connecting two leads, or I have to pull the wire out of the base and short them together to turn it off. Or do these companies purposefully avoid the turn off the chime by making the center hole bigger to miss it? I don't want to spend 20 bucks for this to find out it does not turn off the chime.

[Rope-Pusher]

I can't stand the stupid seat belt warning chime. I want to disable it. I found a place sells extenders that look something like this. Will this defeat the stupid chime? I figure the chime is turned off by the metal tab connecting two leads, or I have to pull the wire out of the base and short them together to turn it off. Or do these companies purposefully avoid the turn off the chime by making the center hole bigger to miss it? I don't want to spend 20 bucks for this to find out it does not turn off the chime.

Doan ask me. I'm the guy who cinches his seatbelt tighter (for safety in a collision and also for better control during "Spirited" driving).

Ya wanna borrow my Google card again?

[ClutchFork]

Doan ask me. I'm the guy who cinches his seatbelt tighter (for safety in a collision and also for better control during "Spirited" driving).

Ya wanna borrow my Google card again?

If Google card will turn off chime, yes.

Oh, I do wear seat belt, just sometimes I buckle it after backing into the street. I once went 5 blocks in the neighbor hood without a belt and my boss said that is dangerous I could get in a accident. But who cares? If you drive without a seat belt going 20-25 mph in a car is that worse than riding a bicycle through same neighborhood? Probably safer un-belted in the car. But I started wearing a seat belt several years before it became required. I read an article about saying you will brace yourself against the dash and try catching a 50 pound bag of dirt dropped out of a second story window, and the physics hit home. I light went on in my head and I buckled up. That does not mean I didn't do stupid dangerous things anymore, but at least I did them with a belt on.

[IMBoring25]

I'd venture use of an extender by someone who doesn't need one would render the belt less effective because the lap belt and shoulder belt would meet partway across the body.

You could try this:

https://www.fordfusionclub.com/threads/ ... le.341398/

[ClutchFork]

I'd venture use of an extender by someone who doesn't need one would render the belt less effective because the lap belt and shoulder belt would meet partway across the body.

You could try this:

https://www.fordfusionclub.com/threads/ ... le.341398/

Oh, sorry, I want this for the Mazda 5 (2008) and the manual for that car says you have to go beg the dealer to do it and they won't want to.

The extender will only extend it about 4 inches. They do have longer ones for folks who are more rotund.

[potownrob]

I can't stand the stupid seat belt warning chime. I want to disable it. [...]

eye hope, fore yore sake, that yore talking aboot the passenger seat belt chime and knot yore driver side belt chime. fore my over lee intrusive passenger belt chime eye usually try to move things around on the seat so as to turn off the chime, other wise plug in the passenger seatbelt. as far as i understand, plugging in another belt or an extension should turn off the chime.

[watkins]

Alternatively, just put on the damn seatbelt.

[ClutchFork]

Alternatively, just put on the damn seatbelt.

That probably works in the Fusion, but in the Mazda it sometimes starts chiming while I am still in park.

One perverse feature of these safety features is that people like to test them, so one time I refused to put my seat belt on and I found that after a while the chime stopped. I suspect if I kept going like that it would have come back on periodically to holler at me.

[potownrob]

Alternatively, just put on the damn seatbelt.

That probably works in the Fusion, but in the Mazda it sometimes starts chiming while I am still in park.

One perverse feature of these safety features is that people like to test them, so one time I refused to put my seat belt on and I found that after a while the chime stopped. I suspect if I kept going like that it would have come back on periodically to holler at me.

hier eye fought and hoped you were tgalking about the passenger belt, KNOT the driver belt. are you saying you put the car in park, you take off your seatbelt and the car starts beeping at you like a packard bell running windows me? now that would drive me insane. there's gotta be a way to defeat that.

[Rope-Pusher]

F N U wand two knot here a chime when U doan use ewer seatbelt, then by a Tesla!

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesl ... p-problem/

Tesla developed the heat pump for 2020 model-year vehicles after owners of older models complained of poor cold-weather performance. In March of 2020, Musk tweeted, "Model Y heat pump is some of the best engineering I've seen in a while. Team did next-level work."

Following the article about the recall of Tesla's "Next Level Work" heat pump system, there is an article about the seat belt chime recall and another article about the rolling stops recall.

F ewer knot N 2 safety, Tesla may B the brand 4 U!

[ClutchFork]

I think I found how Teslas stay warm in winter
https://www.tesla-fire.com/

[ClutchFork]

Alternatively, just put on the damn seatbelt.

That probably works in the Fusion, but in the Mazda it sometimes starts chiming while I am still in park.

One perverse feature of these safety features is that people like to test them, so one time I refused to put my seat belt on and I found that after a while the chime stopped. I suspect if I kept going like that it would have come back on periodically to holler at me.

hier eye fought and hoped you were tgalking about the passenger belt, KNOT the driver belt. are you saying you put the car in park, you take off your seatbelt and the car starts beeping at you like a packard bell running windows me? now that would drive me insane. there's gotta be a way to defeat that.

No it is reverse of that. I put key in and start engine, still in park and chime is going off. One way to end the chime is push the car off a cliff, but actually i can just picture it at the bottom all wadded up like it went through the crusher, and the chime still going, Reminds me of the stooges when they smashed a radio transmitter when it would not stop calling for Dr. Howard and Dr. Fine, and then teh tube was running around the r floor still calling out their names, so Moe shot the tube and it finally quit.

[potownrob]

That probably works in the Fusion, but in the Mazda it sometimes starts chiming while I am still in park.

One perverse feature of these safety features is that people like to test them, so one time I refused to put my seat belt on and I found that after a while the chime stopped. I suspect if I kept going like that it would have come back on periodically to holler at me.

hier eye fought and hoped you were tgalking about the passenger belt, KNOT the driver belt. are you saying you put the car in park, you take off your seatbelt and the car starts beeping at you like a packard bell running windows me? now that would drive me insane. there's gotta be a way to defeat that.

No it is reverse of that. I put key in and start engine, still in park and chime is going off. One way to end the chime is push the car off a cliff, but actually i can just picture it at the bottom all wadded up like it went through the crusher, and the chime still going, Reminds me of the stooges when they smashed a radio transmitter when it would not stop calling for Dr. Howard and Dr. Fine, and then teh tube was running around the r floor still calling out their names, so Moe shot the tube and it finally quit.

oh yeah, that happens probably in most modern cars ive driven. might knead that there extension to cure yore whoas.

[ClutchFork]

Well the extenders came today and they work great. Of course the first shot at trying them out and the car was going to make a liar of me. Had to drive halfway down the block with no belt to get the chime to go off, but then plugged in the extender and it was gone. They work pretty good. Instead of plugging in the seat belt at the level of the seat, you get to plug it in at the top of your leg, so no more reaching down so far, especially helpfull if wearing heavy gloves. Only problem is getting out you instinctively reach low and take the extender out instead of the belt out of the extender. Still, love it. Will make it easy for mother-in-law to hook up.

[potownrob]