Please in the name of all that is right, can we get rid of the triple honk already?

[Shadow17]

Without a doubt I love my Yukon Denali.
But if anyone reading this has any pull with GM, would they please put a bug in someone's ear to get rid of the triple honk when exiting the truck with it running? Every other feature can be turned on or off.

It is a shame an $80K SUV needs to sound like a '90's Ford Explorer locking the doors' every time I exit it with the engine running.

The informative horn honk is way underclass for such a nice vehicle.

 

[jackedupZ71]

i was thinking there was a setting that could turn off the alert if you get out and leave it running?


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[Kpwweb]

Nope to both. My wife's '13 explorer does it as well--Federal safety feature that is sure to kill people by scaring the $h*t out of them!

It is very obnoxious on ALL vehicles! Exit and close the door-HONK HONK! Exit and then get back in and close the door--HONK HONK!

Just be sure to do it early in the morning around your neighbors!

 

[iLikeEggs]

Disconnect wires to horn. Wire horn to button on dashboard. Although disconnecting the horn will probably generate a trouble code.....lol.

 

[Shadow17]

It's such a cheezy 'feature'.
It always attracts everyone's attention. So most of the time I just end up leaving the drivers door hang open which is even more odd.

 

[bmwman3241]

This happens with the truck running and when you exit?
Doesn't happen to me. I leave the truck on and run into the office/house or even gas station all the time and I have never had my Denali honk on me.
Only thing that bothers me is that I can't lock the vehicle with the button on the door handle when the trucks running, but only with the key fob.

 

[Shadow17]

Yes. I don't quite understand why that is. It's my understanding it is an OE feature that cannot be removed.
You have a '15/'16 model correct? You have the key fob in your pocket when you exit?

I wonder how you circumvented this issue?

 

[bmwman3241]

It's a 2016 Yukon XL Denali.

I tried it in the morning and made a small video to show but can't figure out how to upload it. Basically I just started the truck with the key in my hand, opened the door, walked out, closed the door with the key still in my hand and walked away. No honks or anything.

 

[gat0r]

mine honks as well, if you close door while running.

i worked w/ sales guy to go thru all options... no way to turn it off

maybe someone can come up w/ a software update

 

[Denada]

Hmm, so you are all blaming the vehicle for alerting you "hey dummy, you are walking away from a $70k vehicle with the key in the ignition... Do you want me to get stolen?!?"

Just take the key with you and your honking problem will be solved. Or as someone suggested, use the remote start feature.

 

[yates ™]

Wifes Impala honks, I think just when the car is running and the key fob in the car but it may do it regardless of the where the fob is, I do not drive it enough to remember...

 

[Kpwweb]

Hmm, so you are all blaming the vehicle for alerting you "hey dummy, you are walking away from a $70k vehicle with the key in the ignition... Do you want me to get stolen?!?"

Just take the key with you and your honking problem will be solved. Or as someone suggested, use the remote start feature.

Some of us don't have ignition keys! So that wouldn't apply.

 

[Denada]

Some of us don't have ignition keys! So that wouldn't apply.

Unless you hot wired and stole your current car, every single one of us has an ignition key...

 

[Kpwweb]

Unless you hot wired and stole your current car, every single one of us has an ignition key...

It's a fob... There are no key cylinders or ignition locks--it's push to start. So there is no ignition "key"

 

[13yukon]

Google all the instances where people have pulled in there garage forgetting about the start/stop button or failing to push it correctly and families found them the next morning. Death by CO2. Of course that also happened long before the start stop button, it's just now they have a feature to blame a regulation to create and vehicle that can honk its own horn

 

[gat0r]

Hmm, so you are all blaming the vehicle for alerting you "hey dummy, you are walking away from a $70k vehicle with the key in the ignition... Do you want me to get stolen?!?"

Just take the key with you and your honking problem will be solved. Or as someone suggested, use the remote start feature.

no it wont...
its a key fob that is in my pocket when i get out.

 

[Denada]

It's a fob... There are no key cylinders or ignition locks--it's push to start. So there is no ignition "key"

Here, let me help you out because you're obviously new to cars..


ig·ni·tion
iɡˈniSH(ə)n/
noun

1. the action of setting something on fire or starting to burn.
   "three minutes after ignition, the flames were still growing"
   • the process of starting the combustion of fuel in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine.
   • the mechanism for bringing about ignition in an internal-combustion engine, typically activated by a key or switch.

There are absolutely no requirements that an ignition contain mechanical locks or cylinders. The fob is really called a "key fob" and if you don't think it's an ignition key - push to start or not - I invite you to try and start the ignition (which is how GM refers to it in the Denali owner's mamual) in your car without it.

 

[Denada]

no it wont...
its a key fob that is in my pocket when i get out.

I'm not understanding this reply. No it won't what? If you take your key with you your car shouldn't triple honk. And if you do take your key fob and your car is running I hope you at least spend the 2 seconds needed to lock it!

At any rate, those not experiencing intended behavior may have 2015s vs 2016s perhaps? Because similar to another poster my 2016 behaves as well.

 

[Shadow17]

I'm not understanding this reply. No it won't what? If you take your key with you your car shouldn't triple honk. And if you do take your key fob and your car is running I hope you at least spend the 2 seconds needed to lock it!

No. If you leave the vehicle with the key fob in your pocket while it is running and close the door, it triple honks.
My key always remains in my pocket, it never comes out until I take it out to unlock the door to our house.
Times of annoyance (all while the truck is left running)- getting out to get our mail, hopping out to check the straps on our atv/boat, hopping out to hand my daughter's lunch to her that she forgot prior to boarding the bus, running into the garage to grab something before leaving,...these are only instances off the top of my head but it happens more often than that.
Sure I could turn the truck off every time prior to exiting or leave the drivers door hang open.
But you guys can't tell me you never leave your truck running while you jump out to get something real quick.
And no, it cannot be stolen while doing such because the key is out of the vehicle.

I guess I have noticed these instances more during the past couple cold weather months.

 

[Kpwweb]

Here, let me help you out because you're obviously new to cars..


ig·ni·tion
iɡˈniSH(ə)n/
noun

1. the action of setting something on fire or starting to burn.
   "three minutes after ignition, the flames were still growing"
   • the process of starting the combustion of fuel in the cylinders of an internal combustion engine.
   • the mechanism for bringing about ignition in an internal-combustion engine, typically activated by a key or switch.

There are absolutely no requirements that an ignition contain mechanical locks or cylinders. The fob is really called a "key fob" and if you don't think it's an ignition key - push to start or not - I invite you to try and start the ignition (which is how GM refers to it in the Denali owner's mamual) in your car without it.

Okay Mr None smarty pants. Key definition:

noun

1. 1.
   a small piece of shaped metal with incisions cut to fit the wards of a particular lock, and that is inserted into a lock and turned to open or close it.
2. 2.
   each of several buttons on a panel for operating a computer, typewriter, or telephone.
   

SHOW ME! Since I am so new, please SHOW ME all your knowledge...!!! My first car was a 1964 Olds. When was the last time you adjusted front drum brakes? Or points? Or a microswitch for a switch-pitch torque convertor? Do you know what a carburetor is?

I should know better than to argue an idiot, but whatever. Congrats on derailing an otherwise good topic.