I have finally discovered how to successfully silence the annoying Beltminder chiming!

Note, this does not silence the initial chimes after you start the engine without a fastened seat belt. This remains as a useful reminder but prevents the stupid chiming later, such as when you are driving into the long private driveway to park your Jaguar in the garage of your country estate

1. Ensure the front passenger seat is unoccupied.

NOTE: the next steps (2 to 5) must be completed within 60 seconds.

2. Turn the ignition to the RUN position (do not start the engine).

3. Engage the driver safety belt buckle and wait until the seat belt warning lamp extinguishes.

4. Unbuckle the driver safety belt buckle and wait until the seat belt warning lamp illuminates.

5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 a further eight times.

6. When the driver safety belt buckle is unbuckled for the ninth time a single chime will be heard. The single chime is confirmation that the Beltminder feature has been disabled.

The Beltminder feature will remain disabled even after leaving the car until the above process (Steps 1 to 6) is repeated.

If you repeat the process the Beltminder feature will be reactivated.

Proven to work on a 2006 Jaguar XJ8 VDP

 

Hey! Thanks for the tip GrafShutka. I'm going to attempt this this afternoon. I've always thought that there had to be a way to silence Seatbelt Nanny but I was never successful in discovering it.

 

LOL and how did you find this?

 

Most owners manuals say that it can be disabled but seem to refer you to the dealer for more information.

The copy I have though, for a 2004, has full instructions.

 

I found it in the JTIS program.

 

Proven to work in my 04 XJ8 - 3 minutes ago...

 

awesome =)

 

Used this last year in my XJ TDVi as its annoying as it was intended to be
It silenced the initial warning after starting the engine too on mine

 

My battery went dead. After charging the battery back to 100%, I had a continuous chime in both forward and reverse motion. I disconnected the negative terminal on the battery for ten minutes. Then I touched the negative cable to the positive cable and this eliminated the chime. It also cleared all warning messages I had on my dashboard.

 

Let us know when you have worked out how to disable the airbags too...