Silencing seat belt warnings

[ShootingSight]

I went shopping and put the grocery bags on the passenger seat. Car decided the passenger needed to fasten their seat belt, and started bing-bonging at me and put a picture of the car with a red passenger seat on the dash, blocking other information. I don't see any way to silence it, nor did it silence itself after 30 seconds or a minute, but kept chiming all the way home. Am I missing something? Seems there should be an OK button, or a 'shut the heck up' button somewhere.

 

[RoryBellows]

Buckle the seatbelt and it will go away.

 

[RobR]

Move to a country without lawyers.

 

[netsinah]

Move to a country without lawyers.

And then ++ regret your move, when you NEED a lawyer and have no one to turn to for help (lol).


On a more serious note, here's a 2024 Forum thread which is related (it deals with the passenger side airbag light) but doesn't answer the OP question:

Interior passenger airbag sign

While driving tonight I noticed the illuminated lettering for showing the passenger air bag was on. Does anyone know if it is possible to turn it off please?

www.emiraforum.com

I don't recall my passenger seatbelt constantly warning me (after the first few warnings), with weight on it, but it's not something I've experienced often enough to say. Can anyone else confirm, the warning never goes away and that's proper function (with no way to disable it), with weight on the seat and the seatbelt unfastened?

 

[netsinah]

Oddly enough given the timing of this thread, I set some groceries on the passenger seat tonight, heavy enough to activate the weight sensor. There was only one chime, then the dash light remained lit up showing the passenger seat, until I got home. So there was no continuous chiming. Perhaps it depends on the weight?

 

[ShootingSight]

Sorry - it wasn't continuous chiming. It would chime, then go silent for 20 seconds, then chime again. That cycle was continuous. That said, I wonder if my weight was right at the limit, so with bumps it would reset and start again. I'll try with other weights.

 

[allenyao09]

I put my dog in the passenger seat one day and this triggered the seatbelt warning intermittently. It went on and off again.

 

[Nick Sticks]

Does disabling the passenger airbag stop the passenger seatbelt warning?
It's not mentioned in the manual so a practical experiment is needed for you shoppers.
Probably easier to just do up the belt though.