[Don]

Something NOT to do again! With you and your passenger belted in with the car in Drive and your foot on the brake, if you lift your butt off the drivers seat to get your wallet out of your hip pocket, the 4 way flashers will come on, all the doors will lock and the horn will start an incessant Beep! Beep! Beep! that never ends - The alarm system evidently thinks someone is breaking it!!

Tried all sort of things to shut it up! What finally worked was unlocking the drivers door and exiting the vehicle. Got back in and it started up fine and the panic was over!

Give it a try yourself, somewhere out in the boonies where it's much less embarrassing than being the 5th car in a line of 20 at the local Wendy's drive thru!

Don

 

[Johnny_id4]

Since we are talking about lifting butt from driver seat, I wanted to add that it is very annoying when I try to reverse my car back by lifting my butt of the seat to get a better view out my rear window and the car suddenly brakes. Apparently, the car thinks the car is rolling back with no driver and will slammed on the brakes. Happen a couple of times in a parking lot and I would need to put the car in park, sit back down on the seat and put into reverse again.

I now have to train myself to use the backup cam or backing the rear in first into parking spot.

 

[MurrietaID4]

I learned today, if you leave your laptop (pc) on the passenger seat, then place your iphone on same seat, this counts as a 'passenger' and red 'seatbelt warning guy' starts flashing and beeping on dash.

What is the minimum passenger butt weight?

Has VW accounted for American butt weights?

 

[wtatun]

I learned today, if you leave your laptop (pc) on the passenger seat, then place your iphone on same seat, this counts as a 'passenger' and red 'seatbelt warning guy' starts flashing and beeping on dash.

What is the minimum passenger butt weight?

Minimum weight for seatbelt reminder activation (passenger seat) = 1 laptop + 1 iPhone

😁

 

[NoChrger]

Learned something new yesterday. You must lean on the drivers seat with your hand right at 3/4 towards the back of the seat to trigger the screen to come on to change your charging percentage. Just so you don't have to sit down.

 

[Tinman]

I learned last night that the FE has footwell lighting for rear seat passengers. One of those nice touches that I had never noticed.

 

[voxel]

I learned today, if you leave your laptop (pc) on the passenger seat, then place your iphone on same seat, this counts as a 'passenger' and red 'seatbelt warning guy' starts flashing and beeping on dash.

What is the minimum passenger butt weight?

Has VW accounted for American butt weights?

Weird. I put my small cooler (full of drinks and ice packs) and sometimes groceries on top on that and never get the passenger seatbelt warning. I wonder if there is some heat sensor?

 

[Tinman]

I wonder if there is some heat sensor?

That triggers the whoopee cushion.

 

[Nai3t]

...if you leave your laptop (pc) on the passenger seat, then place your iphone on same seat, this counts as a 'passenger' ...

Serious? Sure it wasn't an Osbourne 1 and a Motorola "bag phone?"

 

[NeoFrank]

Serious? Sure it wasn't an Osbourne 1 and a Motorola "bag phone?"

In my Mini Countryman, it was simply an iPhone on the passenger seat. The Mini Service guys didn't believe me until I demonstrated that it caused a seat belt alarm.

 

[Huey52]

Yep, same with my daughter's Mini Countryman!

In my Mini Countryman, it was simply an iPhone on the passenger seat. The Mini Service guys didn't believe me until I demonstrated that it caused a seat belt alarm.

 

[cosev]

In my Mini Countryman, it was simply an iPhone on the passenger seat. The Mini Service guys didn't believe me until I demonstrated that it caused a seat belt alarm.

This happened to me the other day in a friend’s crosstrek and I couldn’t believe it.

 

[Nai3t]

Ok, I take it back! I put a half-baked pizza wrapped in cellophane (so, contour conforming, not in a stiff cardboard box) plus a pecan roll on the passenger seat this morning, and as soon as I began driving, chime

Oh, and this was in my i3, do it's not just an ID.4 pecularity. I'm baffled they can build these to be this sensitive.

If I recall correctly, in some previous car I owned, the butt sensor was weight sensitive, too, or at least had a threshold to know to always activate the seatbelt warning if occupied, but it either disarmed the airbag for children, or set it to fire off with a reduced force. But I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have detected a pizza.

 

[dkuryente]

Since we are talking about lifting butt from driver seat, I wanted to add that it is very annoying when I try to reverse my car back by lifting my butt of the seat to get a better view out my rear window and the car suddenly brakes. Apparently, the car thinks the car is rolling back with no driver and will slammed on the brakes. Happen a couple of times in a parking lot and I would need to put the car in park, sit back down on the seat and put into reverse again.

I now have to train myself to use the backup cam or backing the rear in first into parking spot.

Exactly what I experienced the other day. It happened to me like 3 straight times as I was backing up. I'm like WTF is going on? How do we turn this thing off?

 

[GrandpaJim]

Learn to use your mirrors and the back up camera to back up.

 

[dkuryente]

Learn to use your mirrors and the back up camera to back up.

Cmon now Grandpa! That's not how we were taught to backup as a defensive driver. Seriously though, just force of habit to not exclusively rely on the backup camera and mirrors. Especially to check for cross traffic, any protruding objects you might hit and all.

 

[GrandpaJim]

Oh, sorry, I forgot one important step: if you are in an area of moving people and cars, shut off the radio, and open the windows before you back up. I've been backing with mirrors and open windows for 20 years, 400,000 miles, and have not hit anything during that time. The recent arrival of the backup camera has made this even more safe.

 

[Plant Peon]

I've been backing with mirrors and open windows for 20 years, 400,000 miles…

That must be a record for distance driven in reverse. Or at least by length of time. 😉

 

[Dougie01]

The only car I ever backed into anything was a VW bus. Telephone pole at exactly the wrong angle to meet the right rear corner.

Well, that and also a wall that my kids were yelling at me about. "Wall, Dad, STOP!!!" Crunch.

And I drove forward into a pole in a parking lot one time in a rental car, again when the kids were yelling to tell me to stop.

So other than those three times I have never driven into anything.

 

[Huey52]

So other than those three times I have never driven into anything.

I always enjoy the "other than ... never" rationale (guilty myself).

All these "nannies" can be helpful but I too prefer "head on a swivel" with the backup camera just an additional cranial-input safeguard.