Intermittent seat belt warning chime on Seat Altea FR

[JD PH]

Hellllllppppp!

My wife's '08 plate Seat Altea FR has developed a weird gremlin. With me driving it the seat belt warning chime is completely silent and works perfectly. With her driving it, the chime goes off approximately ever 0.003 seconds. She's pregnant at the moment and her ever increasing bump seems pushing the seat belt at a funny angle seems to be causing it to think she's not wearing one. When she is.

So is this a coincidence and the early signs of a broken connection / fault or is it a common issue and something that can either be turned off or foxed somehow?

Thoughts / solutions VERY welcome!!!

Thanks

JD

[JD PH]

t955daytona said:

Hi,
She doesn't drive with a handbag or something on the passenger seat does she? The reason I ask is my wife told me she had the same issue in my Volvo the other week and it was down to this. The bag was just heavy enough to make the car think someone was sitting in the passenger seat.

Sadly not - it was doing it with me in the car the other day (with my seat belt firmly buckled!). We swapped around for the drive home and it didn't do it (this is always the case - it only does it when she's driving!)

[JD PH]

va1o said:

Easiest option is to go minicab driver style and just turn it off! If you have access to VCDS or know someone local with it will just be a case of going into the coding for the instrument cluster. The setting is documented here - http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/VW_Golf_(... should just need to change the bit for seatbelt warning.

Great work... Anyone know of someone with a VCDS that is either in the East Grinstead or Teddington area?!? Or perhaps is attending PistonFest?

[JD PH]

gottans said:

Quick fix is connect the seat belt even though the seat is empty, will stop the bongs driving you mad.

Sadly this won't help - it is the driver's seat belt that causes the issue, not the passenger one.

[JD PH]

Adrian E said:

JD PH said:

Great work... Anyone know of someone with a VCDS that is either in the East Grinstead or Teddington area?!? Or perhaps is attending PistonFest?

I'm in Horley and have VCDS if you want the coding changed - reasonably handy with it as long as you are happy to follow the coding linked above - it's always reversible when you take notes of what you've changed. I just altered the long coding on the ABS controller and instrument cluster, and MMI to enable TPMS on our new S5. That was 'interesting'

Am around most evenings after 6 or all day Fridays by arrangement - drop me an e-mail

Adrian

You, Sir, are a legend! Thank you very much. You lost me at "follow the coding...." but it sounds like a plan. As you say, if it is reversible then it should be no problems. I'll check the wife's diary and suggest some dates!

JD