Learning more and more everyday, both pro and con! Thanks, people!

 

Small Screwdriver, insert it into the latch mechanism and literal latch the door (Closes the latch, making the door think it is closed), just make sure you pull the latch to open it before closing the door.

I clean my car, do all the maintenance on it and use the above method, that way I clean the whole window while the door is open. Can leave the doors open without an annoying chime and it still works when getting out of the vehicle and the key is left in it.
But on a side note, Very good write up.

 

Thanks Ken ... just went out and tried that on my car ... that is a great and simple way to defeat it as well.

However as you said, you then need to get in the habit of remembering to pull one of the handles before shutting the door.

For those of you that NEED the chime reminder ... Ken's way to defeat it may be your answer.

The other option would be to cut this wire and putting an interupt switch under the dash so you can turn it off when needed. I may end up doing this eventually.

Doug

 

You are right, I can now lock my doors ... either with the door button before exiting or with the remote after exiting and it will lock the doors with the key still in the ignition ... so YES I've deactivated the "Smart Locks" function.

When I 1st read this reply, I thought you meant the "Auto Lock" & "Auto Un-Lock" features would be disabled (doors lock at around 12 MPH & un-lock when ignition is turned off and drivers door is opened) but this is not the case.

Doug

 

I "always" use the remote to lock and un-lock my doors. So if i did disconnect the wire it wouldn't be a problem for me. I'll probably do it the way Ken suggested.

 

that's great!!! you did an excellent job posting it with pics! THANK YOU.

at last i'm not alone seeing some guys who hate those non essential and irritating gizmos that serves to nothing! and cutting them off.we don't need a wistle a chime a buzz or any tricks to remind us of something we do with the car or forget etc.. we are the persons who drives it and not the car telling us what to do.
it felt good to say it!

 

Like I said Doug, very good write up, but I have been using that method for your while listening to the Radio in my F350, and it does help to get the bottom of the window clean on the inside without having to lay the seat back

 

"Open the pod bay doors HAL"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"

 

Thought I'd give a follow up ...

After a week of driving (430 miles), no issues have popped up with this wire disconnected. The only other feature that appears to be defeated (beside the chime) is the "Smart Locks" that will not let you lock the doors with the key still in the ignition.

This is the 1st car I've ever owned with "Smart Locks" and I've always defeated the key-in-ignition buzzer so I've always had a hidden key somewhere on the outside of my cars so I can simply re-open the door if this happens.

Fortunately with the passive anti-theft on most new cars, this hidden "plain" key will no longer start the car so the possiblity of someone else finding it AND driving away can't happen.

Doug

 

UPDATE ... spliced Key-In-Ignition sence wire and ADDED a switch

Wanted a "push on / push off" type switch and one as small as possible. Went to 3 different auto parts stores & searched McMasterCarr.com and found nothing so I finally went to Radio Shack. They actually had 3 different "push on / push off" switches. # 275-1565 was the most compact and thought it would be best and cost only $2.99.

I did not want to drill a visible hole to mount the switch so I was hoping to find a spot under the dash. I then noticed that the tilt lever slot was longer than the lever so I wondered if it would be possible to somehow mount it inside the tilt lever slot ... here it would be within reach of the ignition making it easy to find and push.

Well, I think I found the perfect spot ... there is a plastic structure just in front of the tilt lever and there was a hollow area above it for the switch body & wires. Carefully drilled a 3/8" hole in the bottom of this and the switch fit perfectly. Only problem is the retaining nut would have been pretty tough to tighten ... luckily switch is tight in hole so it is more or less friction fit and nut is not needed.

Spliced a pair of Male & Female spade terminals into the Blue / Gray Stripe wire in the ignition switch harness and plugged my switch assy's. Male & Female teminals into these.

Pics pretty much tell the rest of the story ...

Doug

 

@Doug, very clean operation there. no sloppy wire mess and perfect location of switch. Great job. ill definitely consider this when i get my Stang

 

Can it be defeated on a 2000 and if so how...thank you

 

YES ... it should be the Black wire w/ Purple markings as mentioned in my 1st post of this thread.

Doug

 

So I was wondering if anybody would know this. I followed the instructions for disabling the key in ignition switch for the chime, and I also connected the blue-green wire and yellow-violet wire under the driver's seat for disabling the seat belt warning (I couldn't disable it with the owner's manual). The only problem is that I now have an airbag light that is on, and I don't know which project started it because I did both at the same time. I was wondering if anybody else has this problem, and if so if they had any advise. Not that its a problem, but I would prefer if the light was off. I am guessing that I still need to disconnect one more wire (not sure which) but anybody knows I would really like to find out.

 

That connector on the seatbelt set the light off. you disconnected the seat belt pre-tensioner

 

Best of both...just insert an inline switch. Done!

 

A switch!!!!

 

wounder if 2013 will be the same?

 

why are u messing with the seatbelt/airbag wires? follow the instructions in the owners manual to turn of the seatbelt minder, it can be done on any year mustang

 

Yeah, not sure it's wise to mess with the airbag wiring. Don't want it blowing up on you while you're traveling 70mph on the highway and sipping on coffee. That's the kind of thing that belongs in a Chris Farley movie.