The last thread on seatbelt chimes!!!

[dr k]

Originally Posted by MannyLegacy

LOL No worries Will. If someone else can enjoy the silence too, then that makes me happy.

It's under the seat! Thanks Manny, Can't wait to have a quiet start in the morning instead of beep beep beep..

[5UBE]

Hi folks

I’ve been following this thread with great interest, as I dislike the chimes and my wife absolutely hates them. I bought an ’01 Forester in February and have been trying to find that elusive ‘peace and quiet’ ever since.

The plug-under-the-seat sounded good, but being the compulsive person that I am, I wanted it ALL. I was out to get every one of those chimes… the ‘yer-seatbelt’s-not-fastened-dummy’ one, the 'are-your-keys-STILL-in-the-ignition?’ one, the ‘were-you-born-in-a-barn?-your-door’s-open’ one, the ‘on-the-hour’ one (no, wait… that one’s in the hall… sorry!).

Since I’ve been doing this for a while (ever since cars have had beepers and chimes…), I was pretty sure that I could find the little noise-maker itself. I finally hunted down the culprit yesterday. Under the lip of the dash, just to the left (toward the driver’s door) of the steering column, is a rectangular white box with “010” and a date stamp on it. It’s about 3.5 x 2.5 inches and is a little less than an inch thick. (That’s about 90mm x 70mm x 20mm to you metric types…) It has an 8-pin rectangular plug with 6 leads. I popped out the plug and hit the key. The ‘air bag’ light came on and went off, as did the other expected warning lights, but there were NO chimes, just sweet silence!

So, for now, it’s ‘Mission Accomplished’, but I’ll keep you posted if I discover any ill effects!

[Augie]

Originally Posted by F14CRAZY

I'm all for shutting up the chime, but doesn't the airbag determine what force to use party based on whether you're wearing your seatbelt or not?

I do not believe this is going to be a problem for driver's side. The passenger side does have position detection on the rail. Plus if this is related to SRS system by law this wiring should be marked with Yellow tag just like the rest of SRS system wiring.

Thanks for the tips mine is done within 2 minutes. Very easy to do.

[Subiciv]

So as soon as I read this I headed to the garage, a little tricky to get both hands under the seat but im a small guy and flipped upside down and immediately silenced that nonsense alarm. Thanks again, well worth it

[KkK3]

Originally Posted by scoob02

I hate that annoying beeping. I did the 20 click thing and it certainly helped but I wasn't satisfied. The chime comes on almost before you can get your seatbelt on!!! I don't need a chime to remind me to wear my seltbelt. Here's how to end it forever and it takes a minute. If you pull down the rubber on the seatbelt you'll notice two sets of wires going to the seatbelt. They both travel in the same housing from the seatbelt to under the seat where it splits in two. One goes to a yellow clip (which I think has something to do with airbag/seatbelt tensioner ???). The othe is a white clip with yellow ends and that simply controls the seatbelt light and and chime. It's as easy as unclipping a clip and NO MORE DING< DING< DING!!!! Enjoy......



Here is the split of the wire housing into two under the seat.


Here is the yellow connector for saftey devices. And the sinister connector in the background.


Here she is!!!!! Disconnect it and enjoy peace and quiet!!

scoob02,

will this work for the 09 forester? thanks