Pedestrian Safety Act 2010 . . . signed into law

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Oh, yes they will; they won't be an optional extra cost, but will be reflected in a price increase for the vehicle.

It's not useless; it lets the driver know that the car is in reverse and not in park or neutral. True, it would be more useful if it also was heard outside the car, but less useful does not mean useless.

As for the rest of your tirade, keep in mind that new features in cars typically start with the more expensive cars and trickle down to the less expensive ones in subsequent model years.

Reply to
Michelle Steiner

There's already a way to mute the beep, no hardware changes required:

  1. Power on the car to IG-ON or READY. IG-ON will do for this purpose.
  2. Using the Trip/ODO button, set the Trip/ODO display to ODO (not Trip A or Trip B)
  3. Power off the car.

  1. Now power the car to READY (brake on). This is required so that step

6 works correctly.

  1. Within 6 seconds of powering on, press and hold the Trip/ODO button for 10 seconds or more.

  2. WHILE STILL HOLDING ODO *after* the 10 seconds, shift the "gear" selector from P to R, then back to P. Now release the Trip/ODO button.

  1. If the last step was successful, "b on" or "b off" should be displayed in the location where the Trip Odometer or Odometer is normally displayed. "b on" is beep on, and "b off" is beep off.

  2. Press Trip/ODO to toggle the mode.

  1. Now power the car off to exit the toggle mode.

  2. Power the car on to READY and confirm the reverse beep status by shifting to R. The beep should not be audible if "b off" was selected, and should be audible if "b on" was selected..

Note: The Repair manual page states that if the the 12v battery is disconnected, the beep will reset to the default of on, and this procedure will need to be performed again. The repair manual also isn't clear that Trip/ODO should remain depressed while shifting.

Additional Note: The driver and passenger seatbelt reminder chime can be disabled or enabled (respectively, defaults appear to be driver on and passenger off) using similar steps. Instead of shifting from P to R to P in step 6, simply buckle then unbuckle the appropriate seatbelt while continuing to depress the Trip/ODO button.

Reply to
Elmo P. Shagnasty

All of this applies only to the NHW20, Bob has an NHW11 and a ZVW30. ZVW30 requires the Techstream to change it to a single beep but it cannot be completely disabled.

Reply to
Daniel who wants to know

Are this and/or the seatbelt warning able/disable only for the 2010, or are they for earlier models as well?

Reply to
Michelle Steiner

I don't mind the single beep at all. The default repeating beep was totally useless and very annoying. The dealer changed it to the single beep in a few minutes.

Pat

Reply to
greenpjs

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