AS SEEN ON TV: Secret hidey hole compartments in cars

The alarm is disabled unless you re-enable it. We have three cars currently, all disabled as far as the seatbelt chime.

My gf just pointed out to me that her Arctic Cat ATV has “silencers” in its seatbelts. We’ve never used the belts, and never heard a chime. The previous owner stuck them in and left them when he sold it to us.

Permanently. I see no harm in doing this, although the chime doesn’t bother me enough that i have done it. I always wear a seatbelt. I buckle my seatbelt on vans and buses and in taxi cabs without a chime to remind me. And when I’m driving non-family passengers (usually in the back seat, which has no chimes) i check that everyone is buckled before i move the car.

(I do plan to disable the “you’ve crossed the line without signaling” warning chime. Why yes, i did cross slightly into the empty other lane to give that bicyclist a more comfortable berth. Leave me alone.)

Live Free And Die After Being Thrown Through the Windshield doesn’t fit the license plate.

Why aren’t traffic fatality statistics showing how horrible New Hampshire has become?

Population, fatal motor vehicle crashes, motor vehicle crash deaths and motor vehicle crash death rates per state, 2020

I’m with @puzzlegal and @kayaker on this one.

I wear my seatbelt to drive without fail. But not to move cars. I will choose when in the course of getting in, starting up, and moving that I will put it on. I do not care when some congressmen or bureaucrats thought I should put it on. I choose that my car not make nagging noises. I also choose that my car does light up the separate [seat belt off] idiot lights for both passenger & driver when applicable.

A discreet reminder is welcome. Nagging is not.

YMMV.

:Live Free Flight or Die"?

:rofl:

Bravo! :slight_smile:

That actually exists?! :flushed:

I guess I can’t afford the upper echelon cars that have a lot of extra features. If I did, I would definitely disable that one in a heartbeat.

And yet crossing the lane line without signaling is against the law (even in New Hampshire).

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Modern cars actually grab the steering wheel and gently pull the other way, automatically guiding you back into your lane. You can overpower it, but the car is making its views on your maneuver very plain.

You can only avoid this annoyance by disabling the whole lane-keeping feature, or telling the car you meant to approach the lane line this particular time by signalling first. No thank you.

My car doesn’t do that. My sister’s car does, and it drives her nuts. In particular, if she drives in the right lane, every time there’s an exit on a highway, it tries to follow the line and take her off the highway. She feels like she’s constantly fighting with her car.

I like my lane drifting alarm, and steer-you-back feature! I’m notorious for not signaling lane changes, and it reminds me. My husband hates it, and turns it off. His truck doesn’t have that feature.

The seatbelt alarm DOES get on my nerves. Mine has a slight delay, then slowly builds in speed and volume, until it’s SCREAMING at me to fasten my seatbelt! I always wear my seatbelt, and I’m going to find a way to disable the alarm like mentioned upthread. It’s a 2020 Camry if anybody already knows… :wink:

Now THAT would royally piss me off.

Every make and model is free to do it differently. But the newest fanciest car I’ve driven at least has a plain on/off feature for the lane-keeping assist built into the normal UI on the control screen. Yes, it’s buried in a menu 3 layers deep and has some cutesy marketing name, but it’s not some secret incantation like Kayaker’s seat belt buzzer.

Perhaps your sister needs to spend some quality time with her owner’s manual and the computer screen while parked someplace comfy.

I’d be surprised if the seatbelt disable thing was in the owner’s manual. It’s probably one of those things that you’d find on youtube. That’s what I had to do to find the way to turn off the “you need an oil change soon” thing that blocks the screen. Like I have an appointment next week, leave me the fuck alone.

How do you turn off the seatbelt chime on a 2020 Toyota Camry?

  1. Step 1: Insert your key in the ignition and turn it to the on position.
  2. Step 2: Press the odometer knob till it displays ODO.
  3. Step 3: Turn your key to the off position and then on again.
  4. Step 4: Press the odometer knob for 10 to 15 seconds then put on your seat belt.

Not to worry, there is already a crack exposed.

Doesn’t she signal for a lane change when she needs to change from an exit lane to a thru lane? Doesn’t the turn signal allow her to make the lane change unimpeded?

I don’t have any fancy features like that, but I always signal for a lane change, especially a necessary one like escaping a must-turn lane.

It’s not when she’s in an exit lane that’s a problem. It’s when she’s in the right thru-traffic lane, and she approaches an exit lane. The white line doesn’t follow the thru lane, it turns to follow the edge of the exit lane, and her car wants to follow it. It sometimes happens with left-turn lanes, too, when she’s driving in the left lane.

Yeah, that IS annoying.