Bought 2005 F-150 XL, how can seatbelt chime be disable, it's already driving me crazy.

 

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Anyway here are the procedures.


You can Deactivate the Belt Minder two ways. First, you can deactivate it temporarily for your current "run cycle", that is after you have started your car and it's still running. Second, you completely deactivate the Belt Minder so that it never reminds you again, or at least until your reactivate it...

The first method, temporary deactivation, or one time disable: After you have started your vehicle, buckle and then un-buckle your safety belt. Be sure to buckle back up.... This will disable the Belt Minder only for that ignition cycle.

The second method, permanent deactivation: There are 9 steps you need to follow to deactivate or activate your Belt Minder system. Before doing so, make sure that:
The parking brake is set.
The truck/car is in Park (automatic), Neutral (manual).
The ignition is OFF.
All doors are closed.
The driver's safety belt is un-buckled.
The parking and headlights are OFF.
Then follow these 9 steps:

Turn the ignition switch to ON, but DO NOT START.
Wait for the safety belt warning light to go OFF(1-2 minutes).
Steps 3-5 MUST be completed within 60 seconds!

Buckle, then un-buckle the driver's safety belt 3 times, ending with the belt un-buckled.
Turn on the headlights, turn off the headlights.
Buckle, then un-buckle the driver's safety belt 3 times, ending with the belt un-buckled.
After step 5, the Safety Belt Warning Light will be turned on for 3 seconds.

Within 7 seconds of the safety belt warning light turning OFF, buckle then un-buckle the safety belt.
This will disable the Belt Minder if it is currently enabled, or enable the Belt Minder if it is currently disabled.

Confirmation of the disabling of the Belt Minder is provided by flashing the safety belt warning light 4 times per seconds for 3 seconds.
Confirmation of the enabling of the Belt Minder is provided by flashing the safety belt warning light 4 times per seconds for 3 seconds, followed by 3 seconds with the safety belt light off, then followed by flashing the safety belt light 4 times per second for 3 seconds again.
After confirmation, the deactivation/activation of the Belt Minder procedure is complete.

 

The only time it should be "annoying" is when the driver fails to buckle up.
If you buckle up before driving off there shouldn't be any problem.

Isn't it a state law where you live that everybody in the vehicle must be belted in?????
Or do you feel seat belts are a waste of time?

Here's a link to someone else who asked the very same question.
Read the replies I wrote. https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...hreadid=172349

I'm sorry if it seems that this is a touchy subject with me.
It is because I have seen how seat belts can and do save lives. I came close to losing my daughter beacuse she didn't wear hers, she felt it was too uncomfortable.

 

Mine only beeps something like 6 times before turning off. I also have a 2005 F150. I always use my seatbelt, so I don't know if it starts beeping again once you put it in gear, but I can't imagine that would be the case.

Ricowan

 

The wifes '02 Mustang has the reminder that will go off if you start rolling without the belt attached then stops chiming after a few. But it will start again if you stop at a light or stop sign.

 

I just did mine on my 2005. If you look in your owners manual it'll show you how to do it. The previous post is partially correct, but I beleive you buckle and unbuckle 9 times on the newer trucks. Very simple to do. If you have the buckets like I do you have to do the precedure for each seat.

 

I have an early build (07/03) 2004 and the manual I have is First Priniting. It goes with the method lees99f150 posted. I could NEVER get it to work.

Earlier this week I gave it another try and still failed. I checked around here and got the link back to FORD and downloaded the current 4th Printing manual. It states the buckle/unbuckle 9 times method. It worked first time out. Go figure!

 

stock owner wear your seat belt, it may save your life someday

 

All we are doing here is disabling the beltminder alarm, not the seat belt!

Just because we want to disable the beltminder alarm dosen't mean we won't wear our seat belts...

I do a lot of towing and have to NOT put on the seat belt while backing and hooking up. It is somewhat restrictive while doing this. In my case the beltminder alarm is a pain. But I always belt up on heading out.

Remember that when disabling the beltminder alarm it only works on the seat you choose, not all seats at once. And I only choose the drivers seat belt.

 

This is going to start some controversy but the key word in every statement for wearing seat belts is "they CAN save lives". But "they CAN" also take it too. I lost a friend right after high school that was wearing his seat belt when he rolled his car and the roof caved in he was confined to sit up in the seat and it broke his neck. 3 Years ago my brother in-law was 16 and he lost control of his S-10 Pickup ran off the road took out a telephone pole and was stopped by a tree. Highway patrol said if he had wearing his seatbelt he would have been dead. Because when he went through the pole it collapsed the roof to the bottom of the seat then when he hit the tree is shoved the Dash to the back of the seat. Luckily since he was not wearing his belt then it threw him between the door and drivers seat. Though it took them 1.5 Hours to cut him out of the truck, he escaped with a crushed pelvis, one leg broke 3 times, the other 2 times.
According to the witnesses that put the fire out. He was driving apparently driving under the speed limit "eye witnesses estimated 35mph in a 55mph" and simply ran off the edge of the road on a corner, over corrected, panicked and hit the gas, then swerved back and forth across lanes exiting the other side of the road!

Incident wouldn't of happened with an experienced driver but 16 and so it did, think about that when you strap yourself "or a 16 year old kid" into a 2 ton piece of metal and send them on their way.

Yes it is the law here "click it, or ticket" as they say, but I feel it violates the right to personal choice.

What ever you do it boils down to a game of Russian roulette in the end. If you wear it then it could save you, if you don’t wear it then it could save you. You can look at statistics if you want but how many officers are allowed to say that not wearing a seatbelt saved someone? Much less have the nerve to write it down on paper for their superiors or worse the public to see! Peer pressure says that if it had no apparent bearing one way or the other, they should write that it saved the motorist.

I've been keeping a mental note over the last 13 years of family friends and acquaintances that have been involved in accidents and my observation is that: It is all pretty even:
1. Wearing could have saved some
2. Not wearing could have saved some
1. Wearing could have made it better
2. Not wearing could have made it better
1. Wearing could have made it worse
2. Not wearing could have made it worse
1. Airbags aided
2. Air bags injured more

If our cars had roll cages and 5-point harnesses then the stats would change but unfortunately most streetcars do not. Instead they use inferior products for restraints that were designed before we even understood the physics of how the human body absorbs the load of various common crash scenarios as well as we do now. "but we still have not perfected it." Then the structural integrity or our cars are inferior as well. Many people even drive with cracked windshields. The windshield provides 40% of your vehicles over all body strength and a crack greatly reduces what little structural integrity a street vehicle does have. But by all means it's more important to wear a seat belt than fix a cracked windshield. LOL

I think social priorities are a little off kilter and people only say what they are told they are suppose to say by their piers. Sometimes in situations like this we forget to think for ourselves and tend to encourage others to think the same way that we do simply because everybody else does with out question.

I'm not saying to not wear your seatbelt because wearing could save you.
But I'm not going to say to wear your seatbelt either because by wearing then, it could hurt you too. I don't want to have that on my shoulders. If I tell you to and you follow my advice and then you get hurt. That would be just as much my fault for suggesting it.
Legally-NO, Morally-Yes definatly!

I can't help but wonder. How many people are dead because of the soapbox preachers barking to wear your seatbelts?

Sorry for the long post, people telling people how they should live is a pet peeve of mine. Especially if it could possibly be based on bias-scientific facts and concern life or death.

But it is the Law.

 

I'm not trying to start a big fight here, but I'm a State Trooper, and I've never seen a case where NOT wearing a seatbelt would have saved a life, however I have seen MANY where wearing it would have. I'm sure there are some cases as discussed above where not wearing it would help, but they are few and far between. Just my $.02.

 

I've been a news reporter for 13 years and assistant for 2 before that, I have witnesed all scenarious numerous times. They fall in to the would of, should of, could of, files. A few weeks a go there was a guy that ran underneath the side of a semi trailer as it was pulling off a blind side road. He was rounding a corner on the main road, the trailer decapitated him. He was wearing his belt. Would he of been able to get down in the seat if he hadn't been wearing? It is likely that reflexs would have forced him to do so, if the belt would have let him. He was only 31 his reflexs were likely pretty good still, not to mention or underestimate the shear human desire for survival of all ages.

Last week we had a local city officer involved in a fender bender on a highway out side of town. Seat belt kept him planted but the air bag deployed and beat the crap out of him. Now he will have to undergo several reconstructive surgeries to correct it.

There is no fight from me. There is no doubt they have saved lives. On the same hand there is no doubt that they have taken some too. If there is a 1 out of 4 chance to kill you, even russian roulette gives you a 1 out of 6 chance. It's bad that our Officials have put our officers in such a turmoil position. I know you have a job to do and that is uphold the law, but if you pull some one over and don't give them a ticket for not wearing and they have a wreck year or two later and die because they still didnt wear it then you should hold yourself as liable. Same hand if you give the ticket and they start wearing and they later die because they had it on, again you should feel liable. It's a no win situation for your position. Morrally and ethically it is a call that we should not be making for each other, yet you are forced to. My deepest sympathy, and prayers are for you and our other officers of the law. We do appreciate what you do and we know that this is only one of the turmoils our officers face and have to deal with every day. Thank you guys and God Bless you all!

 

some people actually use the truck for construction and when ur moving material from building 2 building and driving less then 5 miles per hour the belt minder is one annoying son of a #$#$# and also since seat belts have been mandatory in most states for awhile to wear now its a automatic reflex it only takes 14 days of repetetive action to become habbit so i feel the belt minder should be up 2 the individual. so herhttps://www.f150online.com/galleries...w.cfm?num=7507es my 2 cents

 

My point exactically! Well said...thanks.

 

I respectfully disagree...No one should feel responsible for anothers actions and decisions. If the Officer pulls a man over and hands him a Ticket, that is a direct result of the drivers decision not to wear a safety belt, the Officer should not feel responsible for that. He is just doing his job. The same goes for the other scenario.

We all make decision wether it be to wear a safety belt or wether we should go to the bathroom. It's not the Police Man's fault, nor the plumbers if we get a ticket or stopped up pipes!

I for one disabled my buzzer. Because I didn't like it! That is my decision, if I recieve a ticket some day because I forgot to wear my seatbelt, I wont be pissed at the Police Man that gives it to me.

It is bad enough that it is LAW that we have to wear them, not to mention that stupid a$$ buzzer.

Is it the seatbelts/buzzers fault that someone dies in an accident, or is the actions of the drivers on the road?

I'm sure I'll get flamed for this one, but oh well.