Disable Seat Belt Chime Nanny

Chris · August 30, 2010

i went to the store and got a 30 pk. set it on the seat and the damn chime kept bugging me. so on my drive i started drinking. wouldnt go off til i had 7 beers left.

just a joke dont drink and drive

but it is a safety feature. it shouldnt be disabled. studies show seatbelts save lives even if you are doing 2 mph

mxdirtrider56 · August 30, 2010

i went to the store and got a 30 pk. set it on the seat and the damn chime kept bugging me. so on my drive i started drinking. wouldnt go off til i had 7 beers left.

just a joke dont drink and drive

but it is a safety feature. it shouldnt be disabled. studies show seatbelts save lives even if you are doing 2 mph

LMAO!

Seriously though guys, always wear your seatbelts. I would never think of going anywhere without my seatbelt on.

Chris · August 30, 2010

im military. my ass would be in trouble for no seatbelt. on base even worse. click it or ticket

VMaxtastic · August 30, 2010

I was first on scene to a head on collision at highway speed... Did you know the human head can get to the size of a small beach ball? 3 people out of the 6 died that day. I saw how the people with and without seatbelts made out... I'll take a several broken bones, including a femur, over dead in a ditch any day.

Not to lecture, Im sure you know when to wear it... But for anyone that gets careless, please dont. All I had was first aid, and I sure as hell wasnt comfortable dealing with that scene. Its strange how things came back to me 3 years after taking the course though.

On a lighter note.... I hate that chime too when I'm coasting around on some occasions and there's really no need to wear it. This is a handy thing to know.. Thanks.

Batiatus · August 31, 2010

My 2010 has no chime for the seatbelt, just the indicator on the gauge cluster. Wonder if the plug was missed @ assembly?

rgandulla · August 31, 2010

Check out this product designed to disable the chime whether on the farm,in the fields,or wherever you decide.A friend is just starting to market it.

http://stoptheding.net/index.html

MaverickZ71 · September 1, 2010

Does this only disable the chime?

It disconnects the wire for the sensor. So after you unhook the connector under the driver's seat, there is no more annoying chime or red "put on your seat belt" indicator light on the instrument cluster. The passenger seat chime/light will still occur, though, unless you unhook that one, too.

Be nice and reconnect it before you sell the truck, though.

wescollins · September 1, 2010

Holy cow, I never came back to this thread, did I ever once say I don't wear a seatbelt while driving? That's pretty funny. Although I did get a ticket the one frickin time I didnt' wear a seatbelt, because my appendix was about to rupture and I was on the way to the hospital and it hurt and could kill me if I wrecked. Cop gave me a ticket anyway saying "yeh it doesn't hurt as bad as going through the windshield will". You guys kinda remind me of that jerk Yes it did rupture anyway due to incompetent doctors and I had two surgeries and was out of work 4 months last year. I think I can decide if I need my seatbelt or not, thank you. Don't need you or big brother (or a GM nanny) policing me.

The airbags still work fine, you just don't have an annoying chime when you doing stuff in the yard and off road. If you only drive out of your driveway and to work, fine, leave it alone (and get a car), quit preaching you big babies If you can't remember to buckle up, great, leave it alone.

Edited September 1, 2010 by WesCollins

wescollins · September 1, 2010

+1

How about the damn door beeper. I have disabled them before. Does anyone know where the plug for that one is?

Oh no, don't drive down the interstate with your door open, especially when holding a baby, that's bad and you're a terrible person like Michael Jackson (assumptions?)

Edited September 1, 2010 by WesCollins

tanked_darren · September 1, 2010

The seat belt chime is annoying but I only hear it when my one friend who doesn't wear seatbelts is in my truck.

I was in a accident once where if I was wearing a seatbelt (me=passenger) the roof crushing in from when we flipped would have probably killed me (I was tossed into the drivers side).

I was drunk and thats why I wasn't wearing one I guess.

I always try to wear a seatbelt still, because more people die without seatbelts than with them. Tickets are expensive and I almost feel naked without one on when I'm driving anyways!

TO TOPIC STARTER:

--If you want to disable it for the cheap just plug your seatbelt in before you get in the seat, or go to a wrecker and slice off a buckle keep it in your door panel when not using and plug it in when your not wearing one (or the passenger)

Edited September 1, 2010 by tanked_darren

becker87 · September 1, 2010

As previously said, it's not that we don't wear our seat belts, it's just annoying while driving around the farm, or hunting where you can be in and out of a vehicle in a short amount of tiime.

Cowpie · June 17, 2013

Some of us have situations where we are not on the normal road and have several times of getting in and out of the vehicle and moving short distances at low speeds... like pastures, feed lots, farm fields, fence lines, etc. Last thing we want to here is that blasted nanny yelling at us to fasten our seat belt. Yet another thing the folks at GM headquarters did not take into account. That some actually use the vehicle for work off road. I know, it seems so unorthodox to actually take a 4 wheel drive pickup off the road. But it does happen now an then. Now for the '06 Jeep Liberty the wife had, the manual showed a simple sequence one could do to disable the audio warning. Dash light still showed, but who cared. At least the nanny wasn't hollering. Now it would cool if the same feature was available in the Silverado. But I haven't found it. But then, GM always knows best. We are a bunch of rubes that can't even wipe our backsides without guidance.

Edited June 17, 2013 by Cowpie

&CDFiXER% · June 17, 2013

When I am checking fences I just leave the belt plugged in and sit on it.

MikeNH · June 17, 2013

Eating the windshield or being thrown from the truck will get you a lot more than an abdominal injury.

As for the issue of it beeping when doing off-road work, buy a buckle from a junkyard.

Every vehicle made today will ding at you if you don't buckle up so you really have no ground to stand on anyhow.

cparks555 · June 17, 2013

It is annoying when you're in and out of the truck opening gates or on your own private land with no other vehicles within thousands of acres, I buckle mine and then get in with it at my back. I wear it all the time when on the street though, not really into face checking the steering wheel or windshield if involved in an accident.