Anyone find out how to turn off the seatbelt chime?

[overboost]

i downloaded the service manual and still can seem to find out how it is done can anybondy help me out.

[Yaris]

You can't disable it without a scan tool. I had mine disabled for free.

[overboost]

so just go to the dealership and ask them to do it?

[ketel0ne]

Our dealer in Tysons Corner, Va. said no. :(

[overboost]

Our dealer in Tysons Corner, Va. said no. :(
why?

[ketel0ne]

"They weren't allowed" no reason given, I felt like I was 5.

[thewifesyaris]

the chime makes sure that you buckle up, so when, if, a bigger vehicle, basically every other vehicle, hits you, or you hit another vehicle, you stay in your seat. if you dont like your seat belt for dumb reasons what-so-ever you could always get a motorcycle and kill yourself on that just as easy.

[03Z33]

Scan tool is the easiest way, or you can unplug/cut the wire goint to the seatbelt and short it out. This will make it think that the seatbelt is always clicked in.

[ketel0ne]

the chime makes sure that you buckle up, so when, if, a bigger vehicle, basically every other vehicle, hits you, or you hit another vehicle, you stay in your seat. if you dont like your seat belt for dumb reasons what-so-ever you could always get a motorcycle and kill yourself on that just as easy.

You obviously never use the passenger seat for anything but a person.

[ketel0ne]

Scan tool is the easiest way, or you can unplug/cut the wire goint to the seatbelt and short it out. This will make it think that the seatbelt is always clicked in.

Ok, on the scan gauge I can send the obd-II port messages, now what?

[03Z33]

scanguage only communicates with engine... you need an actual Toyota scan tool to communicate with other control units such as SRS, ABS, HVAC, Seat belts, etc...

[overboost]

the chime makes sure that you buckle up, so when, if, a bigger vehicle, basically every other vehicle, hits you, or you hit another vehicle, you stay in your seat. if you dont like your seat belt for dumb reasons what-so-ever you could always get a motorcycle and kill yourself on that just as easy.
easy there big guy, the reason that i want this disabled is because i cant have my books or backpack on the seat without the thing causing a rawkus. And for your information i also own a motorcycle and have yet to kill myself on that.


Well looks like i will have to contact the dealer with the problem and see what i can have done. if they wont touch it then i will just wire it so it allways thinks the belt is plugged in, nothing bad will happen except that if my passenger doesnt have there seat belt on it wont notify me, this i can live with.

[Katana]

Ιf you can stand the noise for 2 minutes, it then goes off.

[H8SGAS]

Yup I agree with Katana, I have the same prob with gym bag/backpack setting it off. Though annoying it stops by the time I leave my street.

[ketel0ne]

Yup I agree with Katana, I have the same prob with gym bag/backpack setting it off. Though annoying it stops by the time I leave my street.

Not to beat a dead horse but, if the weight shifts it reactivates it. I have had it go off 4 times in a 1 hour commute.

[H8SGAS]

Sounds like you should kill that annoyance then! :biggrin:

[vodkalush]

......or you can unplug/cut the wire goint to the seatbelt and short it out. This will make it think that the seatbelt is always clicked in.

doesnt work.... this is what i thought to do;there must be a relay/chip in the acutal seat belt...

I personally buckel all the time, but it is annoying when I'm working on stuff (cleaning interior, ect) and i have the car on so I dont wear the batt down and the shit dings for 12+ secs....

maybe I just made bad contacts with the wire... I'll try this again either tonight or tomorrow and let you guys know.

[03Z33]

doesnt work.... this is what i thought to do;there must be a relay/chip in the acutal seat belt...

I personally buckel all the time, but it is annoying when I'm working on stuff (cleaning interior, ect) and i have the car on so I dont wear the batt down and the shit dings for 12+ secs....

maybe I just made bad contacts with the wire... I'll try this again either tonight or tomorrow and let you guys know.

sometimes it takes a 2 ohm resistor in-line...

[vodkalush]

sometimes it takes a 2 ohm resistor in-line...
will stop at RS on my way home tonight to pick some up...

when I started to do this I bought a pull switch so I can enable and disable the seatbelt sensor. Once i get it all figured out I will DIY for you all.

[Andrew Chalmers]

why not just keep the belt buckled on the empty seat?

[FoEKuZ]

why not just keep the belt buckled on the empty seat?

:thumbsup: this guys a GENIUS!!!

[tomjasz]

why not just keep the belt buckled on the empty seat?
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[vodkalush]

http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1881

[mhero]

First of all, I haven't looked at my Yaris yet ... but for what
I've seen ... most seatbelt sign could easily turn off by unplugged
the wire under the seat. Have u guys try this?

Most cars in Thailand have one for driver seat .. I am not sure if
your cars do the same

[DonnyRebel]

but when I threatened to get the owner of the dealership involved, he called Toyota HQ in CA and verified that the chime could be eliminated (and how to do it). It took the tech about 5 minutes with the a normal scroll type scan tool to turn it off. I'll give you a hint......have your owner's manual handy when you ask. It states very clearly if you don't want the chime......

"See Dealer Technician to Disable" :cool:

[vodkalush]

well whats the fun in doing that?

[Miceer]

i was talking with my roomate about this today, my last vehicle she would never wear her seat belt and eachtime i noticed i would get made and make her put it on. we were wondering how much weight is needed to trigger the chime? i always put my bag on the passenger seat and thats never set it off, even when its been packed.

[ketel0ne]

My laptop in a targus backpack does it. 2 Gallons of milk do it. 2 pizza's do it.

[vodkalush]

My laptop in a targus backpack does it. 2 Gallons of milk do it. 2 pizza's do it.

my targus messanger bag set's it off as well; but when I'm working during the week I just been leaveing my passenger seatbelt "plugged in" like has been suggested as above

[MWill517]

If you dont want the seatbelt latched all the time (cosmetic reasons or whatever) Maybe you could get the seatbelt extender from your dealer, plug that in. Might look a little neater. Havent tried it. Worth a shot possibly. Seat belt chime isn't a problem for me.

[drifto]

i was talking with my roomate about this today, my last vehicle she would never wear her seat belt and eachtime i noticed i would get made and make her put it on. we were wondering how much weight is needed to trigger the chime? i always put my bag on the passenger seat and thats never set it off, even when its been packed.

it varies but usually around 60lbs. hondas systems set at 65lbs. but it also depends where the sensors are located in the cushion. some have multi sensors on each spring coil, others only have a few (front/rear), so you can have a heavy bag on the seat but if its not in the sensors range it wont sense it. oh and if there is a way to turn off the chime with the toyota scan tool, there is almost always a manual may to do it using an SCS connector to short the SRS system. maybe a willing toyota tech here can give us some info or a sequence to follow :biggrin:

[vodkalush]

well... its alot less for the yaris... my laptop bag sets off the passenger seat. Thats 1 laptop (6months old), 3 hard drives, power adapter, and a bunch of CDs tops = 15pounds

[drifto]

mine isnt as sensitive.:iono: i think it depends if there are side airbags in the car. there is a second ecu that determins whether there is a child in the seat (79lbs or less its shown in the SRS section of the factory repair manual in the DIY section).which turns the curtian air bags off. if there arent any side airbags then it may just be a more sensitive,simple on/off sensor. id search more but im tired. theres also some specs on what resistance the ecu expects from certain components for anyone looking to jump the belt switch :rolleyes:

[vodkalush]

and if anyone doesnt want to deal with figuring it out, heres a link to the DIY ON/Off switch for seatbelt alarm : http://www.yarisworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1881

[grampi]

"Anyone find out how to turn off the seatbelt chime?"

Uh, just a wild guess here, fasten your seatbelt maybe? :thumbup:

[drifto]

there has to be a manual sequence to disable it, there must be someone here who works at toyota that can find out.
btw i like your DIY vodkalush, id only be worried about any unwanted resistance in the srs system. the srs ecu sometimes measures resistance outputs in megohms, which doesnt leave much room for error when splicing and such. not for beginers i think, but an awesome setup nonetheless. :thumbsup:

[naossoan]

Why don't you just WEAR the seatbelt....That's what they're for.

[BMGYaris]

I am going to have to chime in on this one..haha, im real funny.

I have side airbags and my seatbelt alarm will go off with just four 2-liters in the seat. It also goes off for my back pack if it has like two textbooks in it. Its looking to be about 10 pounds for me i guess? i never weighed it though, but its pretty damn low.


Also, according to the manual anytime that you drop below 10mph and then go back up above 10mph again the chime will start chiming again. Thus after every red light..."bing, bing bing"


My own technique is to just wrap the seat belt around the back of the seat and keep it plugged in, only problem was when my dad got in the car and nearly broke it tugging to get it to the front, not realizing it was buckled up.

And finally:

Why don't you just WEAR the seatbelt....That's what they're for.


This guy didn't read any of the posts before he commented:laugh:

[vodkalush]

Why don't you just WEAR the seatbelt....That's what they're for.

I'm a big supporter of seatbelt wearing... but when I'm just going from my apartment to the garbage dump (at the end of "my driveway"), i dont want to be bothered with the seatbelt.... or say if your going from one end of the mall to the other, one store to another in a strip mall..

[gm830]

ok i'm confused...what does this chime do exactly and how does it work? i've never heard of a seatbelt chime going off unless the driver wasn't buckled up when he started the car, so can someone enlighten me please?

[BailOut]

gm830,

The Yaris' front passenger seat has a set of sensors in it that try to determine when a passenger is present. If a passenger is not present nothing in that part of the cabin gets initialized. No seat belt tattle-tale chime, no passenger airbags, etc.

If it senses enough weight in the seat, but less than 75 pounds (so the manual says, IIRC), it will assume a child is present and will activate the seat belt tattle-tale chime but not the airbags. If it detects anything over 75 pounds the airbags come on, too.

What's happening here is some folks have frequent loads they like to place on the passenger seat that are weighing enough to make the simple system think a child is present, which activates the seat belt tattle-tale chime.

Once activated the chime can quickly become annoying and distracting (which is, of course, the point of it).

I have never had this issue myself but I put groceries in the back or on the front floor and my laptop is a very efficient ultra-portable that only weighs 3 pounds (and the only supporting equipment it travels with is an ethernet cable (just in case) and a solar charger).

[gm830]

oh i see...didn't know they had chimes for passenger seats....can't everyone just buckle the seat belt with all of their books, bags, or whatever on the seat? =/

[03Z33]

If you disconnect the electrical connector under the seat, the chime will never come on again. The seat-belt light will flash slow ALL the time though. I'll be messing with different size resistors to get rid of the seatbelt light next week when my seat brackets are done.

[JosephDoc]

After a few weeks of having the car, I decided to do something about the chime and blet warnning light(s). I just reach up to here and I guess I can't domething simple without the scanner.

So... me go from this face, :laugh:, to this face :evil:.
I took off the passenger seatblet/airbag lights (the bracket next to stereo unit) and taped up the the LEDS circuit. I took out the dash meter and taped up the driver belt's light by taped up the light channel behind the fascias. The chime is right behind the dash meter assembly and looks like a pc speaker. I taped it also just wish the beeps wont be as loud.

All those took only 30 mins and I am happy now. The beeps are not as bad but I wish I had the pc-spk ripped out when was all apart. I will try to live with 2mins beeps and see how it goes.
:headbang:

[Mead]

my 10lb backpack won't trip the chime unless.... I corner really hard :burnrubber:

[Boy Blue]

There is a way to disable it.. i have tried but could not get it to work. a friend did it on thier FJ.... Once i get it to work on mine I will post the steps to take.

[Tiddlygoose]

My 6 pound dog sets of the darned dinger in the passenger seat. I guess I'll just buckle the seat belt and hope it's not too annoying for her. For me, though, I am going to either find a dealer stupid enough to disable it, or do the switch mod.

After all, I live in New Hampshire. We are the only state in the U.S. where you do not have to wear your seatbelt if your over 18. When I leave our backwoods town i do wear it, but around town, I choose not too.

[03Z33]

I found out how to disable all seatbelt chimes (permanently)! Just disconnect or remove the SRS airbag ecu :)

[nemelek]

I had the dealer do mine. Be persistant!. I had to threatend the salesman with a piss poor review unless he got it done. Ask the service advisor why would you get oil changes here if they wouldn't do this one simple thing for you.

[Forrest]

just buckle the seat belt and leave that way. It does not cause problems to anything on the front seat. You can move the seat up and bring strap behind the seat to buckle, it is long enough. Easy solution.

[nemelek]

just buckle the seat belt and leave that way. It does not cause problems to anything on the front seat. You can move the seat up and bring strap behind the seat to buckle, it is long enough. Easy solution.

That works for the passenger side, however, the drivers side is another issue. Today for example I started the car without the seat belt and heard 5 beeps. I got out to scrape the frost off the windows. When I got back in silence! I was 3 houses down the block before I put the seat belt on with no excessive beeping. When I got out with the car running to drop off a rented DVD 3 feet from the car no noise. When I got back in no noise. Having the seat belt alarm turned off was one of the best things I have done to the Yasis.

[Malaya1221]

^ it would not start beeping until u reach a certain mph, 12mph i think?

[Kal-El]

Anyone find out how to turn off the seatbelt chime?

Do you have suicidal tendencies?

:confused:

Just put your damn seatbelt on!!!!! Vehicular ejection hurts.

[drbilal]

As stated many times already, hes not saying he doesn't want to wear it, just disable it so that when he keeps bags, books etc on the passenger seat the alarm doesn't go off. :thumbsup:

[Kal-El]

As stated many times already, hes not saying he doesn't want to wear it, just disable it so that when he keeps bags, books etc on the passenger seat the alarm doesn't go off. :thumbsup:

I don't see how you could regularly stack up that much weight on the passenger seat to make the sensor think someone is sitting in it. If you do, then just keep the passenger seat fastened.