Thread: Kill the Hilux seat belt beep in 2 minutes !

The reason I haven't unplugged these sensors under the seat is because I suspect the sensors are connected to the airbag system and my fear is the airbags might not deploy if the seat sensor is disconnected. Can anyone confirm this?

I don't mind vehicles having safety systems but I hate that manufacturers want to dumb everything down. Not being able to enter address information into the Mapping system while in gear is another bitch of mine. I wish I could change that.

Originally Posted by planenutz

The reason I haven't unplugged these sensors under the seat is because I suspect the sensors are connected to the airbag system and my fear is the airbags might not deploy if the seat sensor is disconnected. Can anyone confirm this?

I don't mind vehicles having safety systems but I hate that manufacturers want to dumb everything down. Not being able to enter address information into the Mapping system while in gear is another bitch of mine. I wish I could change that.

With my first Subaru (2012) I immediately determined the speedo had a large offset in it. I Googled and found worldwide a lot of Subaru owners complaining about the fact that Subaru had apparently purposely calibrated an offset for "safety" reasons. Thanks Subaru.

My latest Subaru has a speedo almost spot on but still overstates the speed by a wee bit. I don't mind that.

Originally Posted by planenutz

The reason I haven't unplugged these sensors under the seat is because I suspect the sensors are connected to the airbag system and my fear is the airbags might not deploy if the seat sensor is disconnected. Can anyone confirm this?

I don't mind vehicles having safety systems but I hate that manufacturers want to dumb everything down. Not being able to enter address information into the Mapping system while in gear is another bitch of mine. I wish I could change that.

Purely based on observation, on newer cars if there isn't someone sitting in the passenger seat the airbag won't deploy. How the sensors work for that I'm unsure, generally we're at the point of pulling things to bits not fixing it.

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Also useful for something else.

Go old school and just plug seatbelt in and pull up tight and sit on it behind you

It tried unplugging the beeper for reverse on a Subaru (imported). Found it unplugged ,job done, or so I thought. Couldn't get it out of Park. I resorted to wrapping it in multiple layers of tape. Mates of my brother had a car that beeped over 100kph. They found it by driving around at over 100 listening for it. Once they had pin pointed it, killed it with a cordless drill.
The Pathfinder I had would flash the air bag light sometimes. Advice was to replace the computer at around $3K. Googled it & found a procedure to reset it by turning on the ignition with the door opening & pushing the button that turns on the interior light when you open the door 5 times.

I was driving one of my lad's vehicles the other day and must have come up too close to a car that cut in front, an alarm went off and a warning flashed on the dash something about an immanent crash about to happen, with me glancing at the dash almost rear ended the car cutting in.

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

I was driving one of my lad's vehicles the other day and must have come up too close to a car that cut in front, an alarm went off and a warning flashed on the dash something about an immanent crash about to happen, with me glancing at the dash almost rear ended the car cutting in.

I had rental last time I was down in Chch and had a similar situation but the bloody seat vibrated as well. Damn near shat myself.

Originally Posted by Bobba

I had rental last time I was down in Chch and had a similar situation but the bloody seat vibrated as well. Damn near shat myself.

That would have fixed it........

We have a customer that brings his hilux in each wof time with all the wires under the seat chopped with pruning secateurs. Fix it, wof it, he chops it all again once he gets home.

You can get a blade with a buckle on it, shuts the beep up, and you can use the belt as normal. Pretty sure it's mot legal or possibly even safe, but better than just hacking at shit like some specimens do

Only retards will disconnect or cut the wiring.
It is a very simple job to stop the seatbelt warning chime in the Hilux's.
People are just to f**ken lazy to do it properly

I asked Toyota to kill the seatbelt beep and they did so, no problem at all. That was on a new vehicle. Still has red flashing light though.

Well I was out on the farm today in the Prado..left the belt unplugged, first it beeped, after a while it beeped a lot louder and twice as fast two gates later it stopped beeping altogether...

the scania beeps for about 1km then she shuts up and stops nagging....have to go faster than 24kms before it started....

The toyota dealer can remove the searbelt beep on my 2021 hilux evidently a simple process but its not a happening thing on the open door chime