Reversing Beep

[Bike Nut]

Hello again!, that reversing beep has to GO!

The two demo cars I drove beeped once when you engaged reverse, but my new car beeps all the time!

I understand its a dealer thing to have it switched off, any ideas how long and how much it will cost?

[RNS]

mine did it for free.

[Bike Nut]

Cheers RNS, I am chasing it up with my lease company. The issue I have with my car is with it being a lease car and supplied from a dealer in Leeds & I live in Newcastle. I don't fancy taking the car 100miles or so at my cost. I don't think a Toyota dealer who did not supply the car will do it for free. I could ask though.

[Ikelos]

I had mine turned off a couple of days after we got it, it took them less than 5 minutes, and it was free.................

[johalareewi]

If you know someone with a Scangauge II it can be turned off with that.

[hertsnminds]

Just a thought, what happens to your insurance if you disable a safety feature and reverse into someone? I am assuming the car is silent (electric power only) when reversing.

[johalareewi]

Just a thought, what happens to your insurance if you disable a safety feature and reverse into someone? I am assuming the car is silent (electric power only) when reversing.

Not a problem..

1) The reversing beep can only be heard inside the cabin not outside.

2) It is the repeat that is disabled so you only get one beep and not driven round the bend.

[timberwolf]

Just a thought, what happens to your insurance if you disable a safety feature and reverse into someone? I am assuming the car is silent (electric power only) when reversing.

The Petrol engine starts approximately 10 seconds after the hybrid system is switched on, unless the driver asks permission to engage EV mode and the computers permits it (it is not always granted).

If an audible reminder causes an irritating distraction to the driver can it really be considered a safety feature?

BTW, I don't find the reversing beep on my Gen 2 annoying, sometimes I even forget that it has been on and I think my hearing is still pretty good. For other Gen 2 drivers, I've read complaints, so maybe I have a slight hearing loss at certain frequencies, maybe they don't all have the same pitch or amplitude, or maybe it is a bit like the hiss that you can hear especially in a quiet room, if you fixate (involuntary or otherwise) on the beep it becomes more annoying?

[Doesn'tExist]

On a gen 3 it is very very very irritation and so unnecessary. Who ever came up with the idea has clearly something wrong with them. Now if it did it on the put side of the car perhaps. But on the inside what is the point of that?

[Dave R.]

Cheers RNS, I am chasing it up with my lease company. The issue I have with my car is with it being a lease car and supplied from a dealer in Leeds & I live in Newcastle. I don't fancy taking the car 100miles or so at my cost. I don't think a Toyota dealer who did not supply the car will do it for free. I could ask though.

Mine's a company lease car too - I just took it into the nearest Toyota dealer and asked nicely - they did it for free (took less than 20 minutes). From the dealer's perspective, even if it is a lease car, the chances are that you will go back to them for servicing, so it is in their interests to be accommodating! :)

[Bike Nut]

Cheers RNS, I am chasing it up with my lease company. The issue I have with my car is with it being a lease car and supplied from a dealer in Leeds & I live in Newcastle. I don't fancy taking the car 100miles or so at my cost. I don't think a Toyota dealer who did not supply the car will do it for free. I could ask though.

Mine's a company lease car too - I just took it into the nearest Toyota dealer and asked nicely - they did it for free (took less than 20 minutes). From the dealer's perspective, even if it is a lease car, the chances are that you will go back to them for servicing, so it is in their interests to be accommodating! :)

Cheers, I will visit them tomorrow, they are only about a mile from the office. Cream cakes usually work well to persuade some one to help ;-)

[Seamaster73]

What I don't understand is why Toyota don't simply switch this off by default. Or why the dealers don't routinely do so at PDI.

The latter must get pig sick of all the requests to disable it.

[Bike Nut]

Hi, I went to the local dealer and within 5 min he had switched off the reverse beep for free, and I did not even take the cream cakes!

Well done Hodgson Toyota at Silverlink, Newcastle upon Tyne!

Happy :-)

[Doesn'tExist]

Mine was done today, it is bliss! So much nicer in the vehicle...