Yesterday, I was driving mz car and noticed that although I had not buckled up (my passenger had), I did not get a seatbelt warning chime. Could it be that this annoying feature has somehow finally been deactivated?

Never had one in mine.....

I thought this was disabled for US cars, anyway it's simple enough to get it turned off if you want.

Frank--started mine without buckling (driver, no passenger) and got 3 or 4 dings of a chime and the light on the dash.

Had many MB Es and never had a chime. Thank God! :v

The European (and antipodean) cars have a nasty reminder that chimes for about 10 seconds, then a 20 second pause then it starts over again. This will happen for either passenger not wearing their belt.

This reminder is a requirement to achieve a Euro NCAP 5 star rating (which is the highest).

The test results are here

http://www.euroncap.com/content/safe...?id1=4&id2=130

The chime can be disabled by the dealer (thank goodness), but does this mean I am only driving a four star car now???

I believe that in US the customers would not stand for being told what to do by their vehicle so the warning is disabled.

Mine chimes.

I am in Canada and when I start the car it beeps 3 times.

It is so fast that I never noticed it until recently..

Mine chimes for a good 5 minutes and starts again if the car is put into park and then drive. The darn sensor on the passenger seat even chimes if I have a small bag in the seat. How do you turn this stuff off?

I have a UK car and no chime I am pleased to say.

Marc

Why would you not want it to chime? Do you not wear your seat belt? The chime is a pleasant sounding reminder to fasten your seat belt.

Mine beeps & blinks 5 times & stops on what would be the 6th

When I bought my car, I had the dealer disable the chime. All that happens now is that the warning light illuminates for about 5 seconds, but there is no noise.

Pleasant sounding???????

On mine it was a very annoying continuous beeping.

I have my '03 E500 in for service. They give me a loaner to drive ('05 E320) and NOW I KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BEEN *****ING ABOUT!!!. It's an annoying warning light and "ding" sound that continues at an ever increasing pace for about two minutes - then stops. Only to resume after another minute or two. If I had this thing on my car I'd rip it out myself! Another Toyota-like feature we don't need! Seems like the lawyers are out to control our lives. How do you like the lawyer screen when yoou fire up your command unit? Spare me!!

After reading all this stuff I just got in my AUDI and the chime (which has not worked in years, this is a good thing) beeped two times! I was so happy it stopped beeping when it did years ago. I hope it does not start to work again.

My Euro MB had no chime (this was OK). My 300E had a very anoying sound, so I always put my seatbelt on before starting it. Maybe this was a good thing. My 04 e 320 only does a low beep (kind of more pleasant than anoying) about 6 times and then stops. There is also a light that will stay on in the clock. It really does not bother me at all. But I think that some people are saying that there are more anoying chimes in some cars. I by no means do I find this one bad, its not that loud.

Steve

Both the chime and the light can be switched off separately through stardiagnose...

greetingz,

Old thread but here exactly do you go to disable the chime. I am looking in STAR/DAS now and there is no option in the cluster to disable the chime.

Thanks,
-Nigel