My car freaked me out on Friday and I'm hoping you guys can guide me on how to stop it. I arrived back at the airport after a weeklong trip to the west coast - threw my backpack onto the passenger seat and started driving home. After around 10 mins I got a seatbelt warning chime and light - I checked I was actually buckled in (I was) and after 20 seconds or so the chime stopped.... I assumed that a sensor was about to fail and was quietly annoyed. 5 mins later it went off again. This time I noticed it was the passenger seat that was alarming. It had mistaken the weight of my backpack as a passenger and was getting annoyed that it wasn't buckled in. Is there anything I can do to turn this annoying warning off, or am I prohibited by my own car from putting anything of decent weight into the passenger seat?
I had the same thing happen when I sat my bag on the passenger seat. I could not find any solution in the owner's manual. I now put my bag in the back seat, I guess we could buckle the bag in the front seat? Anybody else with a better solution?
Sorry to say this but there is now way to turn that system off for the passive safety. There is a seat mat sensor in the passenger seat called a OC3 seat mat. Basically what this sensor does it detect a person in the seat and then classifies them by weight and thus would adjust how hard the airbag would be deployed in a accident. Of course this sensor also turns on the warning light telling you to buckle the passenger seat belt.
The Z4 allows me to TURN OFF the airbag in front of the passenger, but I don't know what happens if I put something in the seat after deactivating the granny-killer.
Hmm. That's a pain. I hate to turn off the airbag, as I do carry passengers, but it seems a little silly that my backpack with 4 days of clothes in it would set off a fasten seatbelt alarm. I was hoping I could just disable the warning.
Only way to turn that chime is off is if you ever get the car coded. A few of my clients get their car coded for that. Obviously getting the car coded is not a dealer service and you do it at your own discretion.