Quick question... My 2015 Tahoe LT seat belt warning/chime is very random. It comes on at the most random times. Sometimes it will come on as soon as I star the car. Sometimes it comes on when I am a minute away from home and sometimes 15 minutes after. I don't get it. I've been trying to see a pattern but can't figure one out at all. Is there a certain anything that has to happen in order for it to come on or is mine just a "little slow"?
Seat belt ding/chime
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Do you have weight on the passenger seat enough to make the sensing system think someone is occupying the seat
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Mine does the same thing. I haven't yet figured out the pattern. This morning it chimed as soon as I started it (while in Park, not moving). I had my belt on, wife didn't. At other times, we can get all the way down the street before it chimes that one of us doesn't have our seatbelt on. There is always someone in the car without a seatbelt when it chimes, so it's not a matter of 'IF' it should chime, I just haven't figured out why it chimes at different times.
Mine does the same thing. I haven't yet figured out the pattern. This morning it chimed as soon as I started it (while in Park, not moving). I had my belt on, wife didn't. At other times, we can get all the way down the street before it chimes that one of us doesn't have our seatbelt on. There is always someone in the car without a seatbelt when it chimes, so it's not a matter of 'IF' it should chime, I just haven't figured out why it chimes at different times.
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So there is always someone occupying the passenger seat? There are multiple sensors tied into the Srs system.
It always looks for seatbelts buckled. Driver side it knows when it's not connected because there are switches inside the buckles that tell the Srs unit that the seat is occupied but no seatbelt connected. I believe that the airbag uses a 2 stage system. Meaning depending on position of the seat, vechiles speed, angle of steering wheel, input of he crash sensors, will tell how fast to deploy the airbag by using one inflator or 2. If there is no seatbelt connected it won't deploy as severe injury or death can occur.
Passenger side same concept but inside the seat uses weight sensors and sometimes height position sensor in he back rest that tell the Srs unit weather a adult or child is sitting in the seat. It has to be a certain weight to make the system trigger the airbags.
Now as far as the random warnings. The system has analyze all those inputs and it will let you know but it won't constantly be warning you. You can trick the system by buckling the belts and sitting over it but why would you? If any accident happens, those airbags are going to go off and without a belt to help restrain you, you are basically flying into a wall. Have you ever see how much force a airbag puts out? Look up stupid airbag stunts on google and you'll find people getting launched into the air by airbags
It always looks for seatbelts buckled. Driver side it knows when it's not connected because there are switches inside the buckles that tell the Srs unit that the seat is occupied but no seatbelt connected. I believe that the airbag uses a 2 stage system. Meaning depending on position of the seat, vechiles speed, angle of steering wheel, input of he crash sensors, will tell how fast to deploy the airbag by using one inflator or 2. If there is no seatbelt connected it won't deploy as severe injury or death can occur.
Passenger side same concept but inside the seat uses weight sensors and sometimes height position sensor in he back rest that tell the Srs unit weather a adult or child is sitting in the seat. It has to be a certain weight to make the system trigger the airbags.
Now as far as the random warnings. The system has analyze all those inputs and it will let you know but it won't constantly be warning you. You can trick the system by buckling the belts and sitting over it but why would you? If any accident happens, those airbags are going to go off and without a belt to help restrain you, you are basically flying into a wall. Have you ever see how much force a airbag puts out? Look up stupid airbag stunts on google and you'll find people getting launched into the air by airbags
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