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.

 

[wings19]

Just picked up my Emira. I've been setting my phone, plugged into USB on the passenger seat and even that is apparently enough to trigger the red seat icon and it wants me to plug in the seat belt. I feel it's way too sensitive. Planning to have my dealer check it out at 1000mi among other squawks.

 

[ShootingSight]

It seems that stupid little compartment forward of the shifter is for a phone. It is slim enough I can't get my hand all the way in, so if you put something small in there, you need to pull the rubber tray to be able to reach it, but for just the phone it works.

Someone also 3D printed a piece that let him fit a wireless charger in there, which is pretty cool. It's on the forum here somewhere.

 

[wings19]

It seems that stupid little compartment forward of the shifter is for a phone. It is slim enough I can't get my hand all the way in, so if you put something small in there, you need to pull the rubber tray to be able to reach it, but for just the phone it works.

Someone also 3D printed a piece that let him fit a wireless charger in there, which is pretty cool. It's on the forum here somewhere.

I've tried putting my phone in there, and it does work. I need a longer cord if I do that because my current one is short enough to where it stretches over the shifter boot instead of lie between the center console and seat. Easy enough to resolve but it's handy to just toss it on the seat and you would never think that would be enough force to make the car think there was a passenger.

 

[geoffbland]

I've tried putting my phone in there, and it does work. I need a longer cord if I do that because my current one is short enough to where it stretches over the shifter boot instead of lie between the center console and seat.

You don't need to run a cable from that phone holding compartment back past the shifter and seats.
There's another USB (charging only) under that compartment and there's a hole in the front, bottom of it you can thread the cable up through.

 

[wings19]

You don't need to run a cable from that phone holding compartment back past the shifter and seats.
There's another USB (charging only) under that compartment and there's a hole in the front, bottom of it you can thread the cable up through.

I use CarPlay but I totally forgot about wireless CarPlay so you're right, I could use the USB under the shifter.

 

[netsinah]

There are several Forum options to choose from, if you want to purchase what others have created, for an Emira phone charger that sits in the slot in front of the gear lever. Below is the silent cilantro option (there's at least one other for sale, made by a different member), which I purchased and it works just fine for my iPhone 14 (he should be able to adapt it for your particular phone):

Custom MagSafe Wireless Charger

A few people have been asking if I would make wireless charging kits available for purchase. I figured I'd start a thread to gauge interest. It consists of a 3D printed tray (in PETG) upholstered in Alcantara with a built-in Apple MagSafe Charger that replaces the OEM rubber mat in the center...

www.emiraforum.com

Or if you're a DIY person:

Feeding cable from USB socket to trinket tray

I’ve also found “A New Thing”. There’s a secret hole in the phone tray to feed your usb cable down to the socket.

www.emiraforum.com

Good luck!