Kipp8302

Just bought an 06 RX8 the other day and the seat belt thing is driving me crazy. owner's manual says it can be shut off and to consult a dealer. I did search on here and another forum and couldn't find anything. If anyone can help me to with this I would greatly appreciate it. thanks in advance

expo1

Mine goes off by buckling the seat belt.

NgoRX8

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mine too.

Dive Bum

Words of wisdom to live by! You can't control a car when you are not in control.

nycgps

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How hard it is to Buckle up ?

Mazurfer

Holy ****..............really.............I'll have to try that!

Socket7

Buckle your seatbelt or drive at 5mph.

ZoomZoomH

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yay for 2004-5 rx8's!

no nanny seatbelt beeps here!

LionZoo

I'm wondering about this too. Occasionally I have to move the car down a 50 feet driveway and really it's kind of pointless to buckle up then, but the chime is annoying.

Kipp8302

i do understand the safety aspect of a seatbelt, however my question isn't in regards to anyone's individual driving style or preferences. I'm simply asking if anyone on here knows the procedure to shut this off

sauceyI986

im glad i dont have that problem in my 05, mine doesnt even make a chime all i will get is just a light and no blinks.

kersh4w

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holy crap! you took the words right out of my mouth!

Rumboo

Would connecting a spare unattached buckle help?

savedsol

I click in every time I ride. However I think the gov't is out of their gourds by making it a law. A motorcyclist has a 100% chance of launching his soon to be corpse in an accident. So what's the difference. It's a double standard and they have no business interfering with one's will to live or die in an accident. Under 18? I get the law.

Rems31

motorcycles are a different type of vehicle. It might be more dangerous if the rider was strapped on the bike. Like if the bike tipped and started sliding...if you were strapped on, then your leg would be under the bike while it slid on its side.

savedsol

I understand the safety implications of being on a motorcycle. My point it is that a projectile body is a projectile body. I'm all for personal choice and freedom. If a motorcyclist doesn't want to wear a helmet so be it same with seat belts.

ken-x8

The vehicle itself is a pretty dangerous projectile. Seat belt laws are not there to protect bystanders against flying bodies.

Seat belt laws and helmet laws are there to prevent (or at least significantly reduce) death and injury. Getting hurt carries a cost beyond the injured person. We need hospitals, ambulances, wheel chairs, etc. Think of it as a public health issue, like getting vaccinated against common diseases. Or as galley slaves - if you die, the rest of us have to row harder.

On the seat belt warning sound - I hate those things. I always buckle up, but generally disable those on my cars. Used to be just a matter of unplugging the connector under the seat, but with today's air bag systems I'd be afraid to touch that. Fortunately the gong on the 8 is fairly soft, and my hearing loss has progressed to the point where I have to listen carefully to hear it at all.

Ken

dynamho

I don't have a problem with the seatbelt minder, but I'm with savedsol on this issue of personal choice. I dislike patronizing double-standard laws.

nycgps

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One of my uncle never ever buckle up. He has been driving for the past 25+ years.

He hardly drives more than 2 miles. His work place is just like a 5-10 minutes drive from his apartment. we always tell him to do it but his reply was *too lazy*.

and surprisingly he has never been caught.

Hell even I got checked by cops like couple of times, and I just started driving couple years ago, different car I guess (I drive Rx-8, he drives nothing but mini-vans and suvs)

TragicallyHip

A lot of older men are against wearing their seat-belt. I know of one old man who used to go into the Mazda dealership that my father worked at and constantly request that they disable that chime for him. He ended up having to get the buckle from a junk yard because they refused to do it.

This situation came up at the Subie dealer I work at the other day:

An older man wanted to have his chime disabled while he was in for maintenance. Liability was discussed for a little while after the man walked away from the service counter. Would the dealer be liable for disabling a reminder to wear his seat-belt, if he were to get into an accident which caused him to lose his life, or any other number of injuries...

I believe it was decided that the dealer would not be at fault because it is illegal for him to operate the vehicle without his seat-belt in the first place. This may infact be wrong, but instead of disabling it for him, I think they told him how he could do it himself.

You can actually disable the chime on some Subaru's by clicking the seatbelt into the buckle 15 times I guess.

I feel odd driving without a seat-belt so I always wear it when i'm behind the wheel.

StealthTL

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My Mother-in-Law (used to) protest that she wanted to be "thrown clear" of the accident, so would not be buckled in.

I told her that to be "thrown clear" would involve her going thru the windshield - so maybe she should ride on the hood....

She started 'wearing' soon after.

S

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Detrich

i've had the rear passenger seat belts lock up when the car's parked- so that i couldn't open the suicide doors. and, that was really frustratingly weird. but, after searching here and discussing it in another thread- apparently it's fairly common.

Hi Flying 8

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When I am autocrossing, I have harnesses on and the chime goes off while I am approaching the line. It is really distracting and I would like to find a way to disconnect it for that reason.

If anyone has any idea of how this can be accomplished rather than discussing the pros and con of seat belt use, it would be great!

RX8-Frontier

It's real simple. A guy on a motorcycle can go flying through the air without hitting anything. A driver in a car has to fly through glass, first. It's not the "projectile" you're becoming from the car that'll kill you; it's the ramming face-first into hard glass windshield that'll do it. A motorcycle doesn't have that concern.

That, and motorcycle helmet laws are in effect in the majority of states, so that sort of kills your arguement, too...

Not to mention, there hasn't been a comprehensive look at motorcycle helmet safety in over 30 years, to prove whether a helmet does or does not "save lives". However, seat belts HAVE been proven, time and time again, to save lives. So that's the BIGGEST difference right there between the two. Helmets "may" save lives, but seat belts have been PROVEN to do so.

If the FHWA would ever do a real comprehensive study on motorcycle helmets, and if they conclude without a doubt they do save lives (aka, no more circumstantial evidence where someone wore a helmet, lived, but someone didn't wear a helmet and died, completely disregarding the idea that the one w/o the helmet was drunk as a skunk and ran themself right off the side of the road and impaled himself with a guardrail post through his freaking heart...aka, helmet wouldn't have mattered...), I guarantee they will become mandatory everywhere. But until then, that's just not going to happen.