Depends on the brand and model. My manual says only “see the dealer”.
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First, I’m not from Mexico, not that there’s anything wrong with being from Mexico.
Second, I don’t think it’s completely trivial. In fact, I routinely scold my fiancée when she makes her car’s horn beep when she sets her alarm. It’s unnecessary, as the alarm automatically arms itself if you just press the button on the key fob once to lock the doors, but she likes to hear that beep from the horn so she knows the alarm is set.
What I do think is that it’s unhealthy to become obsessed over a minor annoyance. You and the OP will be much happier in life if you learn to use discretion when picking your battles, because trying to turn your pet peeve into a national cause is obsessive and unhealthy.
If you’re really interested in doing away with those annoying beeps, take your car to an alarm specialist. I’m sure a knowledgeable professional will be able to help you.
The various noises cars make to announce that the remote lock has been actuated seem somewhat laughable to me and I have wondered for several years why they were ever installed. Did anyone really want to announce to everyone nearby that they were locking their car? I get the impression that the blinks and beeps are more a status symbol for many owners than security.
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When I first read this I thought you were making a lot of noise about nothing. But then I noticed in a later comment that you served in the Marines. First of all, let me offer my sincere thanks for your service.
Second, have you had your hearing checked? Military service, especially if you served in combat, can and often does lead to hearing problems. I have a friend who experiences extreme pain from noises that I don’t even notice. He spent too much time next to jet aircraft. I spent most of my service on and around B52s, but I always wore the plugs and the bunny ears together, but he apparently wasn’t as conscientious. I know another, retired USAF, who can barely hear at all.
If you have not had your hearing checked, I recommend a visit to your local VA hospital.
I don’t personally have a problem with the occasional beep of a car’s security system. But I’ve had my ears tested and know it isn’t a medical problem.
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Thread start date: July 2009
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Thanks. I’m not going to take it to court, but our neighbour did ask my wife who got into the car at 3 AM and she pointed to me. … I don’t think it is unreasonable for someone to be able to get something from their car at 3 AM without waking people up.
Status symbol? More like an embarrassment! 
Perhaps, but if my neighbor began questioning my wife about it… well, that’d be a different forum. A criminal law forum… and I’d be the defendant. A man has a problem, he should go to the man, not the wife.
If you did this every night that would be a problem. But we all occasionally have to go to the car at a late hour, and your neighbor needs to be told to grow up.
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Well, he’d be in his late sixties, at least, I’d guess. Anyway, he didn’t come over to complain. He just asked, while we were having breakfast together. Anyway in my subsequent searches I found that this Renault Logan, probably assembled in Colombia, has a Genius G23 Euro 3Mre alarm (www.alarmasgenius.com), but I didn’t find the unique programming or reset code. However, I have found that if I press button 3 (boot or trunk unlock, on the Renault remote) and then button 1, it will lock without sounding the beep, and button 3 and then 2 will unlock without sounding the beep. If I get in and forget to silently* lock it, it will lock with the beep after 20 seconds anyway.
- The click of the door lock solenoids are hardly quiet either, but I’ll not complain too loudly about that!
Before I found this, the web lead me to Cobra alarms, which described behavior rather the same as this car exhibits, but I didn’t notice this work-around in the manual that I downloaded. It only mentioned that the volume or muting was something that is programmable. No mention of how to program it, although I gathered that the four digit code that I could not find would be required.
So, anyone with a similarly obnoxious car alarm, short of an alarm manual or user guide might like to try the button 3 then 1, and button 3 then 2 method mentioned above.
In that case I retract my thoughts. I misunderstood the situation.
I use the beeper on my vehicle to.find it when. I forget where I parked it. The beeper plays an F# major chord which is my vehicle telling me."Long time, no ‘C’ when I have.lost.it in a.parking.lot.
Hey there - read your responses throughout so I’m gonna respond to a couple points! When I lock my door from the car door then shut it the MFer still beeps. It’s like “just wanna make sure you know what you did!” I have thought of the parking lot thing too - but as a woman I stopped doing that altogether. Parking lot robberies (and worse) are not uncommon where I am and beeping your car tells someone where to hide and take you by surprise. Pretty nasty. Further, maybe we could all practice some consciousness / mindfulness, look up from our phones for a sec to look at signs or landmarks, and try to work our brains to remember where we park. I work in healthcare and realize that’s not realistically possible for some, however.
Next, I live in 90026 - it’s the city of Los Angeles. I’m lucky that my street is mostly quiet. Not so lucky that all the windows of my apartment are right above my tiny alley street when some mindless neighbor comes home late and REPEATEDLY locks their car door as they walk home - maybe also after they get home - bc they’re continually paranoid they forgot to lock their car. Don’t get me started one the folks that lock, realize they forgot something and unlock, then lock again, only adding some sound effects to the repeated door slamming. I am used to hovering helicopters, all the trucks, the neighbor’s not so soundproof recording studio, Dodgers fireworks, even coyotes yelping - but it’s these little chirps and honks that are somehow more annoying and I think it’s because they’re out of nowhere / unanticipated, and they’re largely unnecessary. There’s real psychology to that. And when you’re on a relatively quiet street that sh*t doesn’t blend.
PLUS noise pollution is real. I visit family in the country and get so bummed to be out in nature and hear this garbage. The wind is blowing, the river is rushing and - beep - beep. Gross. Bees and other animals’ regular routines are being interrupted by enough of our BS like WiFi and cell signals. We gotta add this? It should be something people can add if they feel they need it, but not the norm - so, the opposite of how we have it now. I think of how annoyed we are when Facebook adds some invasive nonsense but you are free to edit your settings later. ummmm yeah no.
I’d happily trade more beeping if it meant getting rid of the idiots who treat 2 streets near my house like drag strips all freaking night long. Most of 'em have muffler cutouts too, but the cops can’t be bothered to go deal with it because it’s easier to sit under a tree running radar.
The only time the beeping annoys me is when my neighbor’s kid comes home. He’s still at the stage where he’s fascinated by anything that rolls, and anything that’s wirelessly controlled. So every time he comes home, beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep. Sometimes for several minutes at a time. Like… Kid… It works. Stop before I hurt you.
The beeping, on my car anyway, doesn’t just tell you that the doors were locked, but also that the alarm was armed. It’s much better now than it used to be - now they have a little speaker giving out a pleasant beep. In the old days, it just honked the horn. I remember as a new journo being assigned a station car that did this. Really loud horn any time you locked it.
The first time I discovered that this was a major problem was when I was sent to cover a stabbing in a bad part of town at 1am. I beat the cops there, grab my gear, lock the door… HONK! Suddenly I have about 10 angry people staring at me, and I’m just standing there with a big camera wondering if I was gonna make it home. The owner’s manual was long gone, but I very urgently did some research on how to disable it (it was a weird method involving the compass module) and did.
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Yeah, I get that. I’m certainly sympathetic to the cause, but living in a city, there are things I can change and things I can’t change. If my neighbor is playing loud music late at night, I can go ask him to turn it down or I can call the police and send them to do it. If I’m annoyed by someone’s car alarm chirping, I might ask him to see if he can avoid it, but I know that’s not possible on some makes, like my mothers Volkswagen.
Personally, I’d never buy a car that comes with an alarm that can’t be activated silently. I routinely scold my fellow motorcyclists who run their bikes without baffles in the exhaust, saying, “I’m glad I’m not your neighbor.”
OMG, yes! It seems to be a problem everywhere these days, people with loud exhaust systems revving their engines and driving like idiots. I wish the cops would do something about it, but I know they won’t, because half of them drive loud pickup trucks and muscle cars themselves.
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I realize you can’t do it in ole LA, but my dental receptionist fended off a guy in the Walmart lot with her Glock-and this is a small town. She said you’d be surprised at the number of women who carry and sees them at the range. The police figured out who it was but couldn’t make an arrest because there were two look alike brothers. The guy got a scare anyway.
Personally I have mine set to honk when I hit the lock button twice. It’s nice because I can be walking away and hit the button and know the car locked. I’m in a hurry usually.
That’s impressive. I didn’t know you could make a Glock honk.
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Fortunately, living in a highly populated area is optional. Less people = less potential for noise. I get that some people like living in cities, there are positives and negatives to everything. Ever present noise is something that city dwellers have to deal with.
Apparently so.
Fortunately, using Facebook is entirely optional, don’t like their policies, don’t use their product.
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+1
I was a member of FB, but I dropped them like a bad habit, several years ago.
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There’s probably something to that…
Guess I stepped into it. I just read the last couple of responses and didn’t know you were having a food fight since 2009-over noise pollution no less.