Know how to stop a Ford Escape hybrid from beeping when being locked or unlocked?
November 10, 2009 in Ford
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James questioned:
I have a 2008 Ford Escape hybrid. When the doors are remotely safe and signal or unlocked, the horn beeps. Is here a way to configure the diffident so the horn does not signal? I find it very annoying, above all when I am locking or unlocking the vehicle in a cool down neighorhood at night. I can find not anything in the manual about disabling the horn signal, but I am in tension a name else has faced this problem and figured out how to disable the horn signal.
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Try not using the diffident. It facility on our newer Ford. Just lock it from the door panel & unlock it with the key.
The horn is part of the anti theft logic, you can pull the wiring diagram and clip the wire to the horn, you subdue will be able to use your horn as habitual. If you do this then the anti theft logic (timer telephone logic) will not be able to use the horn as an audio alert to theft… a theft deterrent. Personally I like the horn performing arts as a arm / deactivate alert, when I cannot see my car, or I am in a building I know the timer telephone logic is activated, PLUS if a door or the liftgate is ajar the timer telephone logic makes three consecutive beeps. Also ordinarily fords only beep when you hit the diffident more than once, hitting it once is silent which will enthusiasm the parking illumination, double chirps the horn.
the horn must only signal once the lock pin is pressed double. most all manufacturers do this as a convenience figure so you know it’s safe and signal while on foot away. if you just push the pin once you shouldn’t have any tribulations. but if this annoys you take the vehicle back to the dealership and question with them if they can take it out of the wellbeing module’s curriculum. it must be able to be done with a NGS (ford factory scan tool)
Pull the horn fuse, no additional way. You will not have horn even if…