Per IIHS.org:
You can pop them out whenever you want. A friend of mine gets these for all of his vehicles & been using for years. That other 1% of the time you can just pop it back in.
Seems that the buckle switch are not mechanical switches anymore from the diagram. Interesting!
I did the other day, when i was in there to plug my tire and get my alignment. They said they couldn't do it. Not sure if its cos it literally can't be done using an Acura Dealership diagnostic machine, or they didn't want the liability. He did say you could get one of those clips for the buckle itself.... So i don't think he was a 'i like to tell people how to live their life nanny' sort. and he may of just not known. Who knows. I've always just coded it out on my VW / Audi cars. Real easy to do. No cutting / jumping, seat belt on and off 20 times, just plug in the computer adapt el voila ! live free or / and die. (pardon the pun lol)
I did this in my last Subaru. I thought it was a joke at first, but sure enough it works
OK finally getting around to taking another look at this. So i unplugged the plug from the socket, and the seatbelt chime did stop ! The little icon (red unbuckled / green buckled in) on the dash showed i was buckled in, however i got two different errors that cycled through. All errors went away when i plugged the plug back into the socket. Can someone help me please understand, who has some auto electrical knowledge what has the brakes got to do with the seatbelt ? Also for the full electrical diagram its posted on #16 above. also most importantly how can i jerryrig this so i don't have to have my sealtbelt on when i'm say going at slow safe speeds and hoping in and out the car.
But here's the seatbelt part of the diagram. Again for the full diagram post #16 has it.
Here's the plug / connector location under the seat (in the blue housing)
The plug itself
First warning of two
2nd warning of 2
I don't like messing with things i don't fully understand. There's got to be more to it, as the seat belt icon was green and it stopped chiming with that unplugged. But then the warnings came about. Trying to get a better understanding.
As a polite reminder. Net nannies need not reply. I personally like to ride motorcycles in shorts and t-shirts cos it feels nice in my nice warm sunny climate of SW Florida, so being told off by you for cruising at 'sloooooooooow' speeds without a seatbelt isn't going to save me.... Thanks.
The car drove absolutely fine. it was just giving the warnings. EPB worked fine also.
I don't think these work on our cars, the clip has a different shape to it. i looked online and couldn't see anything that had a similar shaped clip to our cars. not that i'd want the hassle of such a contraption.If you can isolate the wire that is B41, using a multimeter see what the voltages are with the seatbelt buckled and unbuckled. With any luck it's a steady low voltage when buckled (5-12Vdc, and probably 0Vdc when unbuckled) and then you can simply wire it to always have that voltage when the car is on.
If too complicated, just get a fat person extender and plug it in because the "Hall" sensor is basically detecting the metal of the buckle to turn itself on. Plug in the latch and use the new buckle when desired or cut off the latch and pull the dummy buckle out when you want to really buckle in.
*Disclaimer* I am providing the above advise as a internet idiot who should not be trusted. I highly value people's freedom to do whatever they want so long as it doesn't harm others and cannot be held responsible for the results of actions taken from this post.
