How To Disable Seat Belt Alarm Chime Noise

[Fairweatherider]

How can I disable the chime warning noise that is made when a seatbelt is unbuckled while driving? Under a certain speed, around 12 mph, no beeping noise. Above that speed, it beeps.
In the old days, we would follow the buckle down to where it bolts to the floor, cut the wire jacket open, and splice the two wires together. It simply closed the loop and the vehicle thought that the seat belt was buckled all of the time. I hesitate to do that because vehicles these days have so much electronics and computers that I'd be concerned about negative side effects.
I found a YouTube video showing how I could follow the wiring harness up under the driver's seat and unplug it without interfering with the power seat function and the heated seat function. While that may be good for the two front seats, what do I do to disable the rear captains seats and the rear bench? I wasn't able to find a plug to separate on those.
If I'm lucky, there is a way to simply program the beeping chime noise to be always off.

My vehicle: 2025 Yukon AT4

 

[Fless]

Google "seat belt alarm stopper" (or "silencer"). Just a plug in seat belt connection without the belt.

Simple like the photo below, or fancier with a molded top.

 

[Protect1989]

Google "seat belt alarm stopper" (or "silencer"). Just a plug in seat belt connection without the belt.

Simple like the photo below, or fancier with a molded top.

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please do not use this. Ever.

Seatbelts and airbags are linked together. This is a recipe for disaster (https://www.safetyrestore.com/blog/...gJlJ_fbsA0-00oIUvZ3N07w2tBOQitS-hgNy6ufeADS1w)

 

[Fairweatherider]

Google "seat belt alarm stopper" (or "silencer"). Just a plug in seat belt connection without the belt.

Simple like the photo below, or fancier with a molded top.

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That is a nice little product. I could see it being useful for when I set a heavy item in a back seat or something other than a person. However, I'm looking to stop the annoying alarm that comes every time one of my kids unbuckles temporarily while driving to retrieve something from the back, for example. Or for the driver's seat, unbuckling to lean far enough out of the window to put a code into an automatic gate, just to cruise slowly through a neighborhood after that. Stuff like that.

 

[tsuintx]

When my kids were small back in the day, they were buckled in all the time, every time while driving. If something needed to be retrieved, they either lived without it or waited until safely stopped.

And at least to me buckling the seat belt back in case I have to remove it for the said code entering situation is second nature. Not worth it for me to start cutting or splicing wires or removing connectors.

To each their own, of course. Hope you find your solution.

 

[Fairweatherider]

People have all kinds of reasons why they don't need to buckle up every single time they drive and why they don't need a dinging noise nagging them. A farmer for example, using his truck on a ranch.
Ranchers often hop in and out of their trucks dozens of times a day to open gates, check water troughs, feed livestock, or move equipment. Constant buckling and unbuckling is tedious, making the alarm a major nuisance.
There can be lots of reasons beyond ranchers.
When I'm driving, I'm almost always buckled. Same for my passengers. I certainly don't need an annoying nanny device to remember when to buckle. As a parent, I check my kids regardless of the alarm noise.
The issue here isn't whether this feature is a good idea, but rather, how to disable it.
I have another car where this feature is able to be programmed to "off". I wonder if the Yukon has something like that, via the use of a programmer that plugs into the OBD2 port?

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Or, as another example, if you are 18 or older, you are not even required to wear a seatbelt in NH. Live Free or Die! (not suggesting that practice, just saying.....)

 

[ReaperHWK]

No reason not to wear a belt, play stupid games win stupid prizes. If I read about a guy who had his head smashed in for not wearing a seat belt he won a Darwin Award.

My 2026 Tahoe wont let you shift out of park unless you’re buckled. You can disable that in the screens though. It also shows red check marks for anyone seated who is not buckled. I bet if you drove with in unbuckled passengers you’d probably have warnings pop up all over the place.

 

[Fairweatherider]

Guys. . .thank you for your concerns, lol. I'm not indicating that I drive around everywhere I go with no seat belt on. Even if I did, who cares? Myself and my passengers are buckled 99.5% of the time. I'm simply wanting to disable the nanny device. Surely you all know about a time when such things didn't exist? Heck, I've even ridden in vintage cars that didn't have seatbelts. People didn't need an alarm, just like we don't need them now. That wasn't even a thing on my first several vehicles.
When I ask how to disable the alarm, some of you go straight to debating the merits of buckling up while driving.
I really don't think that you are snowflakes, but rather, just misread the intent of the post.

 

[Joseph Garcia]

Guys. . .thank you for your concerns, lol. I'm not indicating that I drive around everywhere I go with no seat belt on. Even if I did, who cares? Myself and my passengers are buckled 99.5% of the time. I'm simply wanting to disable the nanny device. Surely you all know about a time when such things didn't exist? Heck, I've even ridden in vintage cars that didn't have seatbelts. People didn't need an alarm, just like we don't need them now. That wasn't even a thing on my first several vehicles.
When I ask how to disable the alarm, some of you go straight to debating the merits of buckling up while driving.
I really don't think that you are snowflakes, but rather, just misread the intent of the post.

I don't think that we misread your intent at all. We initially gave you exactly the content that you were asking about. After that, folks stated their opinions about the pros and cons of wearing seatbelts, and I don't believe that anyone was directing any negativity directly at you. After all, we are a discussion Forum.

It's all good.

 

[7SEVENS7]

If you take into consideration of how many people have met their demise by not wearing a seatbelt this is where the influx of responses come from in relation to being buckled up.
When I first saw the headline for this post I was like well just buckle up. Then I read all of the posts and yeah I get it. I grew up on a farm and we very seldom buckled up.
I was driving a 76’ Chevy pickup to school just had a lap belt. By the grace of God we very rarely put it on, I remember putting it on a couple of times.
Well on this day back in 89’ I ended up totaling the truck and breaking my back, had I had the belt on pretty sure I would have met our maker. Nowadays there are SO many features to the vehicles we really need to be buckled all the time. Most days I am pretty good, some of them I fail though, as my Tahoe is an 03 and doesn’t have all those bells and whistles LOL

 

[ZKWBQD]

How can I disable the chime warning noise that is made when a seatbelt is unbuckled while driving? Under a certain speed, around 12 mph, no beeping noise. Above that speed, it beeps.
In the old days, we would follow the buckle down to where it bolts to the floor, cut the wire jacket open, and splice the two wires together. It simply closed the loop and the vehicle thought that the seat belt was buckled all of the time. I hesitate to do that because vehicles these days have so much electronics and computers that I'd be concerned about negative side effects.
I found a YouTube video showing how I could follow the wiring harness up under the driver's seat and unplug it without interfering with the power seat function and the heated seat function. While that may be good for the two front seats, what do I do to disable the rear captains seats and the rear bench? I wasn't able to find a plug to separate on those.
If I'm lucky, there is a way to simply program the beeping chime noise to be always off.

My vehicle: 2025 Yukon AT4

I always wear my seatbelt, but I don't like cars that act like a mother-in-law in the backseat. It's gotten to the point where cars have so much beeping. I've learned to ignore all of it. I will say this, with Toyota they turned the beeper off after five minutes. One time I had to transport something in the trunk of a Chevy. It beeped for an hour until I got home. With Toyota they run the beeper for five minutes, I guess they figure after five minutes you got it.

 

[blondie70]

I fixed mine to not beep....been awhile, but think I cut and spliced the wires together....remember whatever I did, that it was easy. I always wear my seatbelt on the road, but in and out of the truck in the fields, it was driving me nuts.....had to do something. Good Luck with it.

 

[mikez71]

I can't stand chimes!

Should be a plug somewhere...
Perhaps it's under the carpet and seat base covers if you can't see it..

https://www.gmupfitter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MY25-Yukon-Yukon-XL-Electrical-BBM.pdf