Question of the Day: How Do You Disable Seat Belt Warnings?

The simplest answer to today’s distressingly common question on Ask.cars.com? Put your seat belt on. But that’s not the answer so many readers want to hear. We won’t be giving a step-by step process, but if annoying beeping has driven you nuts before you’ve even left the driveway, definitely check out the answer.

Some cars we test do beep too much, even when in Park, but one of the funniest requests we’ve gotten regarding the issue was someone who wanted to drive without their seat belt all the time, which is of course against all the evidence in the world that says seat belts save lives. The kicker? The inquisitive person owned a Volvo. Buckle up, people!

How do I disable the beeper warning for seat belts? (Ask.cars.com)

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i am so happy with you guys' answer!!! The biggest thing that saves lives, other than not driving under the influence, is wearing your seatbelt.

people do not seem to realize that all the air bags in the world are worthless if the person involved in a motor vehicle crash was not wearing a seatbelt! adding an airbag has been shown to add a small (but important) additional margin of safety on top of what a seatbelt does.

one of the main ways a seatbelt saves lives is by keeping the occupant inside the car. usually skin and bones lose the battle against concrete and the elements, so keeping a body from ejected is a good thing. yes, seatbelts themselves can cause injury, but if that much force is generated, then ejection and death are almost certain anyway.

there should be plenty of solutions to an uncomfortable seatbelt. i suppose if one wants to play with fire, he or she can chop off the seatbelt and just buckle a naked buckle in ... then it becomes a game of survival of the fittest right???

how come you say he owns a volvo but when you look at the question he wants to turn them off in his Honda accord?

the question that came in our Tips line from ask was about his accord. However, I personally get this question and one time it was from a Volvo owner.

Good grief! Driving without a seatbelt? Does this person have the IQ of a turnip? Oh well, when the inevitable happens and they find their body parts in some unusual configuration, they only have themselves to blame. They had better hope their health insurance and/or life insurance is paid up!

Yeah, how did the world ever survive without the mandatory seatbelt? Where did corrupt police departments across America generate their revenue stream before those fabulous laws? Oh, and when will safety helmets become mandatory too, because certainly I'm sure there's evidence that brain trauma is much reduced when a person wears a helmet as well... How about this idea guys- a sticker on your driver license that says you are NOT obligated to wear a seatbelt because you have adequate health insurance to cover your own decisions (like an adult).

the only problem is that once they are bed ridden in a hospital without any form of income, they dont get stuck with the bill. we do. im not very fond of getting my taxes hiked up because some bloakcheads were dumb enough to go 90 without a seatbelt.

the seatbelts are there for a reason. just like the airbags and headrests are. use them properly, and everyone will be happy.

Just go ahead and mess up everything in the fuse box, and there we go. :)

i understand if the belt is brokena nd they are goingt o fix it and i the meantime they wnat to do it. or the passenger's seat has weight from books or stuff. but otherwise it should never be done.

Juan Carlos,

Only if they are smart enough to realize that though.

Well if I'm taking a short trip up the road and don't feel like putting on the seat belt then that is my own personal choice. So you folks decide for yourselves and I'll decide for mine. I'm a very safe driver, though I drive spiritedly quite often. I never wear my seatbelt unless on the highway. When I go 35 to 40 mph up the road I don't need to hear an annoying chime every 10 seconds. I will admit that it isn't very smart to drive at highway speeds without a seatbelt, but lets be reasonable on the local travel. Live free or die! Its my choice, not your problem. Make sure you wear your seatbelts when you roll your suv's off our New Hampshire highways after an inch of snow just came down and you're driving like you should be back in New Jersey! Cheers!

What if I'm driving in a hay field picking up bales of hay. Put the seat belt on every time I get in and out?

Land of the "free", home of the "brave"... *shakes head* You should all be ashamed to call yourselves Americans, assuming you even are.

You buy a car, pay umpteen taxes in umpteen ways on your new prized possession, you pay for the very roads you drive on and then get told what to do with your own body in your own car? Suddenly we have no rights to personal choice for matters concerning our own bodies?

Choosing not to wear a seatbelt or a helmet, while arguably idiotic (you can dredge up statistics to 'prove' your agenda and I can find just as many studies & medical stats that prove the opposite), this personal choice does no harm to anyone but yourself. A passenger, a bystander, an occupant in another will not be injured or their property harmed by my choice not to strap myself in my car. This is not a crime (and any law stating otherwise is unconstitutional). this same logic would assert a woman shouldn't be able to control what she does with her own body...

The fallacious argument that we're all somehow harmed vicariously through insurance rates or some kind of welfare covering medical of poor injured drivers/bikers who fail to obey an unethical, unconstitutional law is flat wrong.

When going to school I get in the car and put my rather heavy book bag on the passenger seat and this is enough to have the car chime all the way to school because I did not buckle up the book bag! I agree seat belts save lifes, however, a method needs to in place to disable the chime short of taking the dash apart to pull it....