TechNut

Dave Mac

I used to hear that from some dealers but it was as wrong then and it is now. There is a government requirement for seat belts in US but not for a chime.

And again, I have been a big proponent and user of seat belts for 50 years - it is just the chime I don't like.

Dave Mac

SW17LS

I can understand why dealers don't want to deactivate this chime. They're opening themselves up to liability if somebody were to have a wreck unbuckled.

Petes2019

AMAZON- Rhino 3” seat belt extender for Toyota. Problem solved.

chromedome

If you have the paid version of Torque on Android, you can run a custom Prius PID that disables the belt chime on both front seats. I can't remember which PID though.

pgiinc

carisita does not do it and the dealer will not
you gonna have to live with it
just buckle up

Philip
2019 ES300h ULeminent white pearl/chateau
2019 NX300h Leminent white pearl/crème
traded in sold
2016 ES300h UL eminent white pearl/parchment
2015 NX300h L atomic silver/black

LeeSoFL

uggg. When I need to take the dog crate, the belt chime sounds every time. It also chimes when one person sits in the rear; the other two seat indicators light.

I'm going in mid-June for my first service. I'll try friendly persuasion, but I doubt it will work.

TechNut

I believe it depends on the dealer. My dealer disabled it on our 2015 model, so unless dealers have decided they don’t want the liability, you may be able to convince them.

chromedome

This is the custom PID I pulled from Torque. You can run the OBD command with Torque or any other Bluetooth OBD terminal app.

[PRIUS]Seat Belt Beep Query (Dis A=0,Ena R=32,Ena P=64,Dis D=96,Ena D=128,Dis P=160,192=Dis R,Ena A=160)","SBB Query","0x21a7","A",0,192,"","7C0","","",1

The address should be 7C0 + 0x21a7, the value should be 160 to disable the passenger belt chime.

Beatdemon

While you are right that most dealers will absolutely not disable the chime...

Correction to your claim, directly from the Carista site:

"Seat belt warning

Driver and passenger / Driver only / Passenger only / Off"

They advertise that it works! There are good reasons to disable the seatbelt chime, one is that some of us are intelligent enough to wear our seatbelts without being reminded. Others here have mentioned other good reasons too. For me, I have a malfunction in the front passenger seat that if someone exits the vehicle the seat still thinks it's occupied. Thus when I drive off I get to listen to that damn chime cycle all the way through until it finally stops. It's a cheaper "repair" for me to disable the chime.

That said, being preached to about wearing a seatbelt is authoritarian. Save it for your kids.

AnthonyMJ

If you're driving a 7th Gen, that seat belt malfunction is under warranty. Should be a free repair.

Beatdemon

Forth Gen LS460. I only posted here because nobody in the LS forum seems to care about this issue.

nsaldanh

Beatdemon: You can get a Carista device on Amazon for about $14 - $20 and use that to turn it off. When you buy their OBD II device you get one month free of the service. It's an option on the LS460 that you can customize using Carista. I haven't turned it off though as I prefer to have everyone belted in when driving. It also goes nuts when I stop the car for the front passenger to get out of the car. The beep goes off and the only way to stop it is to stop the car and start it again.

SW17LS

I don't recall you posting about this in the 4th gen LS forum.

The chime is defeatable on the LS but that doesn't mean it would work on the 7th gen ES. What is customizable is different from model to model.

pgiinc

this is the ES forum and it does not have the option in carista for the 2019 ES

Philip
2019 ES300h ULeminent white pearl/chateau
2019 NX300h Leminent white pearl/crème
traded in sold
2016 ES300h UL eminent white pearl/parchment
2015 NX300h L atomic silver/black

and carista