Good lord, the beeping!

cot · #1 01-02-2004, 08:03 PM

I dont know if I'm the only one bothered by this, but it sure does seem like my civic likes to beep. Beeps when the seatbelts are unfastened, and sometimes even when they are. beeps when you turn it on, beeps when you turn it off.

I am thinking of just disconnecting the seatbelt beeper altogether.

Another thing that's annoying and that I really can't understand is that it beeps constantly when you leave the key in the "I" position.

Now this just doesn't make sense to me - there are four positions, the one when you put it in, then "I", "II" and "III". III is start i believe, making II run, and I the accessory position, when you want to sit in the car and listen to the radio. But my beeper keeps going off in the I position, so it really makes no sense to me! Is this normal?

I would just disconnect this beeper too, but I really would like to have it beep if i leave the keys in the ignition, so I remember to take them out. I guess I could put a relay on the beeper, running one of the leads through the normally closed side of the relay, and hook the coil to the ACC wire, so that when there's power to the ACC it can't beep, but when its off it can.

Just seems like a stupid design to me though - and with all the infernal beeping why couldnt they include a headlight alarm? sheesh

Bilson8tor · #2 01-02-2004, 08:23 PM

i feel the same way my car beeps for everything
the worst is when i drop someone off, they unhook the seat belt so it starts to beep, they get out and close the door and the car will not stop beeping till i restart the car it is so fucking annoying

when my car is in the "I" postion my dosent beep unless the door is open is this what ur talking about?

cot · #3 01-02-2004, 08:35 PM

No, if I'm just sitting there, seatbelt on or off, car not running, it beeps if i have the key in, in either the off or the I position

I can turn it to II, which is the "run" position the car should be in when its running, and it wont beep there but i dont know if its ok to sit in the car listening to the radio like that. I know on older cars it was actually bad for them to do that (and of course thats the whole point of having the I position anyways!)

yeah, it's annoying as hell

Hybrid1990crx · #4 01-03-2004, 12:48 AM

My crx only beeps if I leave the keys in the ignition with the car off. Guess I lucked out with it breaking. LOL.

cot · #5 01-03-2004, 02:17 AM

I'm thinking that mine might be broken, but it seems like a really weird failure mode

it just seems too stupid for the design to be that it beeps at you to take the keys out if they're in the I position where you'd have it so you could listen to the radio or whatever

Artcfox · #6 01-03-2004, 05:30 AM

I had this problem too, reach under the front seats, and grab the wire that's in a ribbed plastic tube and yank. It will come unplugged, and you will no longer have the seat belt buzzer problem. I did this on both the drivers side and the passengers side.

Bilson8tor · #7 01-03-2004, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Artcfox

I had this problem too, reach under the front seats, and grab the wire that's in a ribbed plastic tube and yank. It will come unplugged, and you will no longer have the seat belt buzzer problem. I did this on both the drivers side and the passengers side.

i tried that a while ago and that did nothing for it.
instead of beeping sometimes it beeped all the time
it might just be my messed up car though

LGIZZY · #8 08-05-2004, 06:48 PM

So I have the same problem....the seatbelt indicator is constantly beeping while I am driving. I unplugged the wires under the driver and passenger seats and that did not work. Please someone give me another suggestion!

TheSilentChamber · #9 08-05-2004, 08:02 PM

unhook all of it and install a headlight buzzer, http://www.fourthgenhatch.com/headlightbuzzer.html

V-K · #10 08-06-2004, 06:23 AM

Mine only beeps if I have the key in the I position, and a door is open. I have automatic belts so about the seatbelts I couldn't tell you. And as for when the key is in the off position, it only beeps if you open on of the doors with the key still in the ignition.

As for the beeping, I must be weird but I like it. Almost like the car is saying "Good morning! I've been waiting to go for a ride all night!" :P

sastanley · #11 08-06-2004, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by V-K

As for the beeping, I must be weird but I like it. Almost like the car is saying "Good morning! I've been waiting to go for a ride all night!" :P

LOL

DJHyperXK2004 · #12 08-06-2004, 11:23 AM

i ripped mine out from under the seat... now there a weird beeping from up by the rear view mirror... like a buzzer was gettin killed... took that off, pulled out that wire...

no more seat belt beeps

TheSilentChamber · #13 08-06-2004, 02:02 PM

minen ever has beed on seat belts, only the passenger door makes it beep, never beeps when my keep is left in unless the passengers door is open. guess I'm one of them who lucked out with stuff breaking also.

Shaguar47 · #14 08-07-2004, 08:41 AM

It must be a popular thing to happen to our cars. The easiest way to fix it is to simply take apart the rearview mirror panel that's around those seatbelt lights and then unplug the plug to the beeper up in there. Stopped for me and has never come back.

V-K · #15 08-07-2004, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by sastanley

LOL

THE BEEPING MAKES YOU CCRRAAZZYY!!!!!!!

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