'03 Civic LX seatbelt reminder beeps

Thanks, Tegger. I'll take a quick look at the wiring and see if I can
figure it out. My old daily driver was a '63 VW Beetle so you can
imagine I've done some creative wiring in the past. By the way, that
car didn't have seatbelts at all. I normally wear my seatbelt all the
time, even on short trips, but I just don't want a loud annoying beep
to be screeching at me if I decide to take a short trip without it.

And that's all it is, really. When it went off for the first time
today it was startling enough that I joked with my wife about how I
could see that sudden noise causing an accident.

No, I never looked into the statistics of it. There's a shopping
center that's less than 2 miles from my house and probably 85% of that
distance is inside of my own neighborhood and also a parking lot of an
adjacent apartment complex. I run over there for groceries and to
rent videos and stuff a lot and when I do I'd prefer to not strap
myself into my car. You never know, there could be a flash flood and
I could get submerged with my car and not be able to get out because
of being strapped in by my seatbelt. ;-)

 

I keep it down to a jog. ;-) Oops! Just slipped with an emoticon
thingie. My bad. Um... *grin* ?

 

Odds are that nobody else looked at the math enough to care. heh heh
(more statistics)

 

Well, in that case you need one of them, um, seat belt cutters/window
breakers that have been pulled off the market because they don't work...

 

Yes it does.
http://tinyurl.com/3bvnw

 

Yeah, but they point A W A Y from me. Muzzle downrange, finger out of the
trigger guard until ready to shoot. Safety first!

 

All for gun control. (sight alignment and trigger control that is)

 

Cool. I loved my old beetle. BTW, did you know that there are statistics
that can be used to argue that one of the safest vehicles was the old beetle
(and microbus)? If you drive sanely, it is somehow safer. It's all the
other people out there on the road that aren't as morally or intellectually
superior or as skilled a driver as I am though that make me wear my seatbelt
at all times now.

 

I can't say I always drove my old Beetle sanely...
http://bugadventures.dyndns.org/titanic/01.jpg
http://bugadventures.dyndns.org/withjeep/3.jpg
http://bugadventures.dyndns.org/camping2/0036.jpg
But I had a helluva lot of fun in it. Now... time to search online
for some air shocks for my Civic... ;-)

 

Well, *most* were driven sanely despite the best efforts of a few
delinquents to drive down the favorable stats. I count myself in that
group - once managed to do two 360's at 60mph. It must have been my great
driving skill that kept me on the road <<conveniently ignoring how I lost
contol in the first place...>>

 

There's a big difference between accidentally not closing the door properly
and not wearning your seatbelt. One can get you killed, the other can't.
I've never understood the mentality of people who don't want to wear a
seatbelt. Anyone who doesn't wear their seatbelt for any reason, is a
complete and utter moron.

 

Your opinion has been noted and summarily discarded.

 

Why don't you just walk to the store instead of driving a short trip w/o a
seat belt.

It's not really worth a seat belt ticket or your life if you get taken out
on your short trip

Chris

 

Because the store is about a mile away and I have 4 kids so when I go
to the store I normally buy enough stuff that it would be more than
inconvenient to walk that distance with the amount of groceries I get
loaded down with. Even if I was only going to grab a six-pack of beer
for myself and it's 25 degrees outside I'd prefer to not walk there
and back (about 2 miles) to get it. I just don't see getting into a
horrible accident on a neighborhood road with 25 mph speed limit and
I'm tired of discussing it at this point. I'll rewire the seatbelt to
disable that annoying beep and be done with it. I was just hoping for
a quick trick that would disable it for me without cutting wires.

 

(Travis)
wrote:

Where kids play, balls roll, dogs run, cats dart, cars pull out of
driveways, people drive near the middle of the street because there's
cars parked on both sides.... I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

More kids, more cars, more hazards.

Cheap thrills. "Look at me! I'm driving without my seatbelt!" Life sucks
when you age, huh? (As an aside, I hope you don't have kids. Because
the example you're setting by not using your seatbelt isn't a real good
one.)

I think the odds of hitting a kid in your neighborhood is higher. YMMV.

 

It may be a thrill for you to ride without a seatbelt but that doesn't
quite do it for me. I already said why I choose to not wear it.
Sorry if you couldn't keep up with that explanation. I also said that
I have 4 kids and frankly don't care what you think of my parenting
skills.

And wearing my seatbelt would somehow make it easier for me to avoid
hitting a kid? That's interesting. No, just kidding. It's not
interesting at all. Just wrong.

 

Why is it not properly closed? Because you're too lazy to properly

Dude, you need to chill out. The reason I asked the reason you didn't
buckle was because if it was because you felt it was inconvenient (i.e.
too lazy), then my suggestion to buckle the passenger's belt wouldn't be
relevant. It wasn't a personal attack on your character. If I was, I
would have wrote a big guilt trip about how you should be more
responsible as a husband and father of four.

For a free-spirited non-buckler, you sure are uptight. May I recommend
some medicinal cannabis? Sheesh.

 

Wow, you sure can't take a little reverse criticism, Deanna.

 

Why bother explaining it? Isn't America the Land of the Free and the Home
of the Brave? Why should you have to excuse your life and the way you live
it to somebody who doesn't even know you?

 

If you have spent any time in these newsgroups, you had to know that posting
something like this was guaranteed to draw out a barrage from the
self-righteous.