# Seat belt warning chime **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** belts, escape, seats, ford\ **Created:** [September 20, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/seat-belt-warning-chime/55352 "2010-09-20T01:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jude\_welter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jude\_welter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jude_welter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/seat-belt-warning-chime/55352/1 "2010-09-20T01:19:50Z")
my 2003 Ford Escape warning chime goes off upon start-up. But not all of the time. It lasts for 5 minutes and then (thankfully) stops. This has been going on for 5 years, no one has a clue–some seatbelts have been replaced to no avail. We also engage belts when no one is seated in that space, but it doesn’t stop the chime. ---
**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/seat-belt-warning-chime/55352/2 "2010-09-20T14:51:44Z")
It may be best to see if the chime system itself is bad and replace it. If that doesn’t work then all the inputs to it need to be checked for a problem. One of them appears to have a problem on it. ---
**Author:** ![jude\_welter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jude\_welter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jude_welter)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/seat-belt-warning-chime/55352/3 "2010-09-20T15:39:50Z")
Thank you, I will do that again…when we replaced the seatbelts in front, they supposedly checked all of that out. I was hoping they could simply disconnect it, now that it’s out of warranty, but they said ‘no go’ on that! I appreciate your suggestion!