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I do a lot of slow driving with multiple stops on trails and farm roads and the seat belt alarm becomes very annoying.
I attempted the following steps to disable the beeping, but they didn't work. I couldn't find any other different instructions except for small variations of these.
Any other ideas of how I could disable the seat belt alarm when the speed gets above 10 mph?

  1. Insert the key into the ignition and turn it to the "On" position. Do not crank the engine.
  2. Press the small knob on the instrument cluster to cycle between the trip odometer and the odometer reading. Press the knob until it displays "ODO." Turn the ignition to the "Off" position.
  3. Turn the ignition back to the "On" position and hold the small knob for 10 to 15 seconds. After the time has passed, put on the seat belt (while holding the knob).
  4. Release the trip odometer knob to finish. The instrument cluster will display "B off."
cdunn
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For a really quick solution, try getting hold of a spare seatbelt from a scrap vehicle (I doubt the shape changes often, so I expect any reasonably recent Toyota would do, just get one that is the same as the belts in your car). Remove the tongue (The t shaped bit) from the belt, and keep it to hand - then, when you're driving on the trails and want to disable the alarm, simply plug that into the buckle - thus completing the circuit and switching off the alarm...

Nick C
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The safe way of turning seatbelt chime/alarm off

During these steps, do not touch the brake at all

  1. shut the door.
  2. turn the key on and get your instrument panel on ODO and turn key off.
  3. turn the key back on, press reset knob immediately.
  4. hold reset knob for 12_15 seconds and fasten the seat belt.
  5. xxxx miles should turn to b_on.
  6. release and press one time, it should say b_off.
  7. wait for it to reset back to miles and turn the key off.

Seatbelt chime/alarm will be off.

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I'm late to the game, but maybe it helps others as well...

Your description should work, but there's one catch: make sure you follow the steps on the passenger seat not the driver seat.

You also need to press the knob once to toggle it from b_on to b_off as HasH_BrowN wrote in his answer.

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My wife recently had a ceaserian section and returning from the hospital was medically exempt from wearing a seat belt as the lap portion of the belt would pass directly across her scar.

To prevent the annoying buzzer from sounding we did nothing more complicated than passing the seat belt behind the seat back and plugging it into the clip.

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