It's not the same model year, but it kinda does the same thing. My 2011 requires me to buckle up or I get a constant ding-ding-ding. I have a seatbelt latch extender that makes it much easier to reach it to buckle into and unbuckle, and more comfortable while wearing it, which, like you, I do at all times.

What it also does is it allows me to unbuckle at the drive-through to get my wallet out without the reminder going ding.

Not sure if an extender would help you with starting your car, but it might make the other facets more bearable.

 

It's not the same model year, but it kinda does the same thing. My 2011 requires me to buckle up or I get a constant ding-ding-ding. I have a seatbelt latch extender that makes it much easier to reach it to buckle into and unbuckle, and more comfortable while wearing it, which, like you, I do at all times.

What it also does is it allows me to unbuckle at the drive-through to get my wallet out without the reminder going ding.

Not sure if an extender would help you with starting your car, but it might make the other facets more bearable.

Thank you for the idea!

 

It's not the same model year, but it kinda does the same thing. My 2011 requires me to buckle up or I get a constant ding-ding-ding. I have a seatbelt latch extender that makes it much easier to reach it to buckle into and unbuckle, and more comfortable while wearing it, which, like you, I do at all times.

What it also does is it allows me to unbuckle at the drive-through to get my wallet out without the reminder going ding.

Not sure if an extender would help you with starting your car, but it might make the other facets more bearable.

So for my 2023, there is an easy solution to this. Go to settings on the computer, there is an override.

 

So in my 2024 the seatbelt ding is relentless. The lady at the dealership when I bought it showed me how to disable the "refuse to leave park without buckle". It was one of the first things she suggested. Even still, the dinger alone drives me nuts. It starts immediately when you unbuckle and never takes a break. If I pull into a parking lot and unbuckle even a second before putting it in park, the dinger begins and doesn't quit even when shifted into park. I have to turn the car off completely to make it shut up. Why do manufacturers feel like we need babysat so much? I wear my belt religiously already but I don't need my car treating me like a child.

 

Get a seatbelt extender and leave it plugged in, then unplug from the extender.

 

Behave like a child, the car will treat you like a child. Put your seat belt on, leave it on, and drive. If you prefer no belt, get a motorcycle. Mary says deal with it.

 

So sitting in my driveway or in a parking spot unbuckled is being childish? What people like you and GM don't understand is how counterproductive something like this is. Because I do wear my seat belt while driving, always. But the seat belt extender trick, while maybe effective, ensures that I almost never wear my seatbelt. At least I know my bag of dog food in the passenger seat will be safe when my car is totaled since GM required me to have it buckled up.

 

My apologies for my belittling tone prior. My wife told me there is a new tiktok going around where people drive into a parking lot, rip off their seat belts, then cruise the lot for hours hoping someone backs into them. I can see that dinger really ruining the videos. I didn't even know cruising parking lots sans seatbelt was a thing.

 

I didn't know that TikTok was still a thing, or ever was.

 

TikTok is huge. The malicious acts it inspires have gotten so out of control the US House of Representatives just voted 352-65 to require sale of tiktok by it's China-based entity or it will be banned. Finding that widespread support is very unusual. It's quite a platform. Millions of videos of people doing really strange things then filming themselves crying hysterically about the outcome. Recreational cruising of parking lots then getting crashed into seems like a prime candidate.

 

I should have included a sarcasm alert. LOL

I don't use the Big T, if that has ever been a nickname or not. I had Instagram sometime back and got rid of it for its incessant bothering nature.

 

I'm just playing for fun, hopefully no one is reading my snark as serious or caring. 🤪 I swear I've been weeping for hours about the endless painful chime in newer Malibus. Trust me, when my wife gets in and isn't quick on that belt I yell at the car not my wife. It's the car's fault.

 

Surely there is an easy way to solve this issue. There has got to be 2 wires somewhere that simply need shorted together to make the car think it's always buckled.

 

The easy way for me was the extenders.