04-10-2011, 07:57 AM | #23 |
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Putting on a seat belt does not require an insulting reminder everytime.
Do you get a reminder to steer before you crash? Wearing a seat belt to reverse move in the yard, driving in a 20 zone or similar makes no sense and this is where the chimes are demeaing |
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04-10-2011, 09:45 AM | #25 |
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Laughing at some of the ridiculous responses on this thread now. It's amazing how much you all care about this guy risking his life. I wonder if you'd also stop him drinking alcohol, smoking or trying to cross a road in the wrong place as well? The question is simply a technical question re. the reminder. The other life saving tips are irrelevant
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which makes assumptions about how each of us may respond to this question. On the other hand it's not easy to resist suggesting that perhaps he doth protest too much (sorry Will). |
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04-10-2011, 04:02 PM | #31 |
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I have the same problem as the OP. I don't care what others think about the issue, either. In reality, there are just times when you only have to travel a few feet and do not want to hear the seatbelt alarm. I, personally, believe there should be a way to disable this very annoying feature. However, since there is not, I bought these:
http://www.dinodirect.com/wholesale-...rency-GBP.html Cheap, easy--PROBLEM SOLVED. They work exactly as intended and you can buy them without having to listen to the unnecessary opinions of others. |
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And just an FYI to those with less than positive opinions on here, I personally believe a car which costs in excess of $45,000.00 should not annoy you in any way (even if the annoyance has a rational, reasonable purpose).
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04-10-2011, 05:00 PM | #34 |
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I suspect seat belt audibles are a law in the US so ranting at BMW gets you nothing.
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04-10-2011, 05:03 PM | #35 |
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Although I'm all for belts, i'd love to be able to disable the chime too for those occasions when I have something other than a human in the passenger seat setting it off (groceries, my laptop bag, my 100lb dog, etc.).
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If you understand the implications and the ramifications, physically and financially, of not wearing your seatbelt; if you are so hardheaded and prideful and so very sure that you can forsee, always, the idiot that backs out of his driveway when you're aimlessly doing 40 on a sidestreet--we are BMW drivers, aren't we--then each and every single tax-paying American, whose dollars go toward legislation based on majorly proven studies that wearing a seatbelt is BY DEFINITION safer than not, should pay YOU that amount of money in addition to that which they owe the government for keeping us safe. And let us not forget the insurance bills we face because of you; by golly gee I must owe you a bankfull of cash because you are so very above the law, above the unpredictable, above and beyond the idiocy and absurdity you project when you suggest that you are omnipotent. The chime is not to be turned off because it is designed to infuriate you to such a degree that you have no other choice but to fasten your seatbelt like anybody whose right minds afforded them the license with which they pilot their vehicles every day. Put it in perspective. The money you're spending on this car does not come back when you're dead and not working, and the small amount of life insurance you've afforded yourself this early in your life will not cover the damages and financial setbacks which your family will suffer, nor will it ever, because no love can be ascribed to any amount of money. And you can f*cking count on me and any other sane and generally selfless human being to dig to the very core the inner psyche of those who choose the wrong path, or at least I'll try even if unsuccessful, for it is simply enough to know that I tried to make the world a better place for even just one person. And you'd think that we all actually care about you, but no, because you are that which endangers the rest of us, and our children. So I do, so very much, wish for the problem YOUR X3 suffers is that your seatbelt buckle will fail when you need it most, if that is, you do decide to wear it. And you expect anyone to owe you the respect of not berating you with only the most sensible of arguments? Please. You choose to feel belittled because you know you're wrong. Last edited by xDrive35i; 04-13-2011 at 01:40 AM.. |
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04-13-2011, 01:19 AM | #38 |
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You'd think that right up until the moment you die, because you were too annoyed to just fasten your seatbelt, which takes the same if not less effort than to press those little clamps in.
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04-13-2011, 01:51 AM | #39 |
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Another bad day at the office Judd?
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04-13-2011, 01:57 AM | #40 |
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Hahahahahahaha after reading threads written by people like this, I would take a hard day at work EVERY DAY if I knew that I could rid the world of such imbeciles.
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Man, this thread is going downhill fast.
On a serious note (I promise, I'm not intentionally trolling here), I'm curious about the rationale (from the OP or anyone else) about not wearing the seatbelt. Is it the 2 seconds it takes to get on or off? Does it wrinkle clothing? Is it a claustrophobia issue? Is it restrictive? Is it a belief that not wearing a seatbelt actually keeps you safer in some situations as you're able to get out of the vehicle faster? Is it a risk-taking rush? In all seriousness, there must be a reason why people don't wear seatbelts. I don't want to get into right or wrong, just rationale. Anyone?
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