seatbelt alarms

joescrivens said:
if they are in child seat with a harness then they shouldn't be wearing thick coats. The harness should be tight to the chest, and thick winter coats stop this and actually result in a non safe fit. Just google winter coats and child seats to read up on the matter.

You can get around it but puttng the harness on under the coat and the coat over the harness but it's a right old faff
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Can you not just chuck them in the boot and install a dog guard? :D
 
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joescrivens said:
But if I did that and drove off I wouldn't have my passengers :)

I used to put my kids in the car with their coats on but then I watched something the other day saying how dangerous that was. So now they don't wear coats in the car.
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What did you watch the other day, and what is so bad about kids wearing coats in cars?
 
joescrivens said:
Keep up! Answered above.
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Didn't realise we had a page 2.
Read up on it as suggested. Can't see how a child is goint to come out of a seat harness just because they are wearing thick winter clothing. From what I've read, the woman who has promoted this idea saw photos of a babie's padded snowsuit still in the car seat and the baby found some distance away from the car after an accident.
It doesn't give any indication of whether the babyseat harness was found to be adjusted as best as possible. It also doesn't give any indication of whether any extensive crash tests have been carried out.

Back to topic. Never heard of seat belt alarms going off when car not in motion, what's the point? There is probably some means of disabling it anyway. But have you thought of just providing the kids with a blanket so you can just drive off straight away. You can even get electric blankets that plug into the cigerette lighter.
 
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nilagin said:
Didn't realise we had a page 2.
Read up on it as suggested. Can't see how a child is goint to come out of a seat harness just because they are wearing thick winter clothing. From what I've read, the woman who has promoted this idea saw photos of a babie's padded snowsuit still in the car seat and the baby found some distance away from the car after an accident.
It doesn't give any indication of whether the babyseat harness was found to be adjusted as best as possible. It also doesn't give any indication of whether any extensive crash tests have been carried out.
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I can see what these articles are getting at but TBH, I think there's a little bit of scaremongering going on, as if wearing a coat reduces the effectiveness of a child seat down to zero. Probably a more likely cause for concern is not having the shoulder harnesses at the right height for your child in the first place, regardless of whether they're wearing a thick coat or not.
 
It's not a Daily mail story is it >>> :lol:
the trouble with freedom of information is theres loads of crap information out there...;)
 
bringing children into the world is all about risk. You calculate the risk verses the effort vs the cost when it comes to things like car seats and cars. Some people will make sure they have the safest car possible with the most safest car seat money can buy and then I'm sure they also make sure the kids aren't wearing coats.

Some people will just not use a car at all. Others will do somewhere in between.

Not wearing coats in the car I saw as a pretty easy one, its not too inconvienient, it doesn't cost money, so why not.

As forthe beeping, I checked and my car does beep when stationary, but my red up doesn't so I think it is something wrong with the electrics, it's booked in this weekend to take a look at the garage.
 
You mean you dont have a car interior pre-warmer on a timer.....:thinking:

Nice warm car, very little cost and no seat belt bongs or wasting your life sitting in the car in the morning.
 
LASTOLITE said:
You mean you dont have a car interior pre-warmer on a timer.....:thinking:

Nice warm car, very little cost and no seat belt bongs or wasting your life sitting in the car in the morning.
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i'm guessing you dont have kids.

10 minutes peace sat in the car reading the paper with a cuppa = respite.

It reminds me in my youth I used to go and pick up a curry on a friday night. I would always order it through and go and pick it up 20 mins later. I always used to see my old teacher sat reading his book drinking a beer waiting for his curry, he would go to the curry house and order it and wait for it. I said to him "You've got this all wrong, you're sat waiting for your curry when you could order it in advance and pick it up" he said "When you have children you will understand"

He was right!
 
joescrivens said:
i'm guessing you dont have kids.

10 minutes peace sat in the car reading the paper with a cuppa = respite.
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Doesn't the beeping annoy you? I think I'd prefer to read my paper somewhere else.
 
ZoneV said:
Doesn't the beeping annoy you? I think I'd prefer to read my paper somewhere else.
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the beeping does annoy me, thats why I posted the thread in the first place :bonk:

But i don't sit there listening to the beeping. I put my seatbelt on

But, as has been identified now, it shouldn't BE beeping as I am stationary - hence it is now booked into the garage this weekend :thumbs:
 
Are you sure it's the seatbelt beep your hearing, or is it a faulty seatbelt beep, beep?
 
joescrivens said:
Maybe I just have tinnitus
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Yea, I was going to suggest that yesterday. I'm still puzzled how you can sit in the car so regularly waiting for it to warm up, knowing that the beeping stops when you put the seatbelt on to read the paper, and yet you wondered if you imagined it or wondered perhaps if it was something else. :thinking:

That must be good ale, Joe. :)
 
ZoneV said:
Yea, I was going to suggest that yesterday. I'm still puzzled how you can sit in the car so regularly waiting for it to warm up, knowing that the beeping stops when you put the seatbelt on to read the paper, and yet you wondered if you imagined it or wondered perhaps if it was something else. :thinking:

That must be good ale, Joe. :)
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only done it twice before I wrote this thread. Like I said it was only the other day when I saw that program about coats that I started warming the car up first. Used to just put them in with their coats on
 
specialman said:
I can see what these articles are getting at but TBH, I think there's a little bit of scaremongering going on, as if wearing a coat reduces the effectiveness of a child seat down to zero. Probably a more likely cause for concern is not having the shoulder harnesses at the right height for your child in the first place, regardless of whether they're wearing a thick coat or not.
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That's all I can put it down to also. A poorly fitted harness in the first place. I'm suprised no-one has invented a HANS device like they now have in motorsport that can also help the harness remain in the correct position and hold the child in place in all circumstances.

joescrivens said:
i'm guessing you dont have kids.

10 minutes peace sat in the car reading the paper with a cuppa = respite.
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Having had two sons of my own, I can't think of anytime that I felt the need to escape them for any length of time.

My sister-in-laws 4 kids however, just a couple of seconds of them and I require sanctuary.
 
nilagin said:
Having had two sons of my own, I can't think of anytime that I felt the need to escape them for any length of time.
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You see, I knew there was something wrong with you!!!!

A parent who wants to spend time with their children :eek::eek::eek:

whatever next?

a husband who wants to spend time with his wife no doubt!!!
 
joescrivens said:
You see, I knew there was something wrong with you!!!!

A parent who wants to spend time with their children :eek::eek::eek:

whatever next?

a husband who wants to spend time with his wife no doubt!!!
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No, my sons and I always leave her at home on her own.:thumbs:
 
joescrivens said:
only done it twice before I wrote this thread. Like I said it was only the other day when I saw that program about coats that I started warming the car up first. Used to just put them in with their coats on
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If you buckled up deliberately to stop the beeping, and it worked, what made you think you'd imagined it or that something else was causing it? What else could have been the cause if buckling up stopped the beeping? :thinking:
 
ZoneV said:
If you buckled up deliberately to stop the beeping, and it worked, what made you think you'd imagined it or that something else was causing it? What else could have been the cause if buckling up stopped the beeping? :thinking:
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Why is this so important to you?
 
Can you not disable it ?

On most cars with seat belt reminders you can plug and unplug the seat belt multiple times within a short time scale with the ignition on.

Did you try googling / calling a dealer or heaven forbid reading the manual ?

Colin.........you owe me a keyboard now !!
 
digitalfailure said:
Can you not disable it ?

On most cars with seat belt reminders you can plug and unplug the seat belt multiple times within a short time scale with the ignition on.

Did you try googling / calling a dealer or heaven forbid reading the manual ?

Colin.........you owe me a keyboard now !!
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well, I was going to look into disabling it, but Yv said be careful of that. So now have it booked in as my other Up! doesn't do it when stationary, so seems like its a fault :thumbs:
 
ZoneV said:
It isn't, just trying to make sense of it all. :shrug:

What else did you think it could be? Genuine question.
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I thought it was the seat belt all along and then people here had me doubting it. So i double checked, and it was. Nothing to make sense of.

You can call off columbo now :lol:
 
joescrivens said:
well, I was going to look into disabling it, but Yv said be careful of that. So now have it booked in as my other Up! doesn't do it when stationary, so seems like its a fault :thumbs:
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What Yv was referring to was someones suggestion to disconnectining the plug under your seat.
What digitalfailure is referring to is all cars have a sequence of things which can be done to disable features fitted to cars without the need to unplug them.
 
nilagin said:
What Yv was referring to was someones suggestion to disconnectining the plug under your seat.
What digitalfailure is referring to is all cars have a sequence of things which can be done to disable features fitted to cars without the need to unplug them.
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I'll ask the garage when they take it in if it can be disabled :thumbs:
 
joescrivens said:
I thought it was the seat belt all along and then people here had me doubting it. So i double checked, and it was. Nothing to make sense of.

You can call off columbo now :lol:
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If you thought you may have imagined it before, are you be sure you're not imagining it now?
 
ZoneV said:
If you thought you may have imagined it before, are you be sure you're not imagining it now?
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I tell you what, PM me and I'll give you my mobile then you can ring me and we'll discuss all the different options etc.

Then I'll go to my car and you can double check it with me, just to make sure. Then we can both sleep better tonight

deal?

:lol::D:lol:
 
joescrivens said:
I tell you what, PM me and I'll give you my mobile then you can ring me and we'll discuss all the different options etc.

Then I'll go to my car and you can double check it with me, just to make sure. Then we can both sleep better tonight

deal?

:lol::D:lol:
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:lol: :clap:
 
Just an update, my car is back from the garage and there was a fault with the seatbelt alarm which is now fixed.

cheers
 
What was the fault ? Ive enjoyed reading this thread lol
 
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