Reverse beeper disconnect

[indytrailmike]

How do I defeat the reverse beeper

[brbevil]

Bummer dude.  My 13 doesn't have that and I glad.  Have you looked at the fee diagrams in your owners manual?  It might be that easy otherwise you will have to source the actual beeper and unplug it.

[ArizonaEnergi]

Is this now an electric/hybrid car requirement?  Glad my 2013 doesn't have it.  There must be a fuse.

Edited July 24, 2015 by ArizonaEnergi

[Ephethean3]

I wonder if that could be a state requirement, my 2015 SE in PA does not have a beeper.

[Kelleytoons]

Is he talking about the backup warning sensor?  Because I don't think any of the C-Max's have an actual backup "beeper" (never in my life heard ANY car with that, although a lot of trucks have them standard).

 

I thought for sure someone here had disabled their sensor fairly easily -- but I might be remembering wrong (it *seems* to me theirs wasn't working and they found out it was because it was blocked by mud or some such, which suggests it might be as simple as taping over it).

[stevedebi]

How do I defeat the reverse beeper

Depending on your model, the reverse sensors can be disabled on the dash (only stays active for this particular power on session and has to be redone each time).

 

I'm not aware of any backup beeper that goes on all the time. If yours is doing that, there may be a problem with the reverse sensing system. I'd get it checked out.

[Adrian_L]

There's no reverse beeper on any of the C-maxes.  It's a commercial vehicle requirement, at least in Canada.

[fbov]

How do I defeat the reverse beeper

Have you cleaned your reverse camera lately?

 

There's a reverse beeper on every C-Max. It's not activated by gear selection but rather objects in the reverse camera. If the lens is dirty, the alarm sounds. Happens all the time in winter (salt) up here. I now give it a quick thumb wipe whenever I close the rear hatch.

 

Have fun,

Frank

[raadsel]

Have you cleaned your reverse camera lately?

 

There's a reverse beeper on every C-Max. It's not activated by gear selection but rather objects in the reverse camera. If the lens is dirty, the alarm sounds. Happens all the time in winter (salt) up here. I now give it a quick thumb wipe whenever I close the rear hatch.

 

Have fun,

Frank

 

 

It shouldn't be the reverse camera but rather sensors, the little "dimples," on the bumper. If you have the 302 package, the sensors are only in the back bumper but, if you have the 303 package, you have the sensors in the front and rear bumpers.

[jdbob]

As raadsel noted, it's the ultrasonic sensors (the dimples) on the bumper(s) that actually detect objects and activate the audio alarm.

 

For cars with the factory backup camera the car apparently adds some visual cues about where the object is, based on the ultrasonic sensors, but it is not the camera that is detecting objects. 

[fbov]

It shouldn't be the reverse camera but rather sensors, the little "dimples," on the bumper.

I should know that, thanks for pointing it out.

Frank

[stevedebi]

As raadsel noted, it's the ultrasonic sensors (the dimples) on the bumper(s) that actually detect objects and activate the audio alarm.

 

For cars with the factory backup camera the car apparently adds some visual cues about where the object is, based on the ultrasonic sensors, but it is not the camera that is detecting objects. 

Yes, it has color coded distances, green, yellow, and red. In addition, it has two direction prediction lines that indicate roughly the path the car will continue on if the wheels remain at the current turn. This last one is neat - as you turn the wheels you see the path of the car.  I'm on the 303a package, but I think this stuff is on any backup sensor option with the C-Max.

[Adrian_L]

Flamin' heck.  So is that what the OP "intended"?  How to disable a highly important safety feature?  Unless he has a fetish for running over kid's tricycles, this has to be the time wasting question of the year.

 

(With all due respect.....)

 

By the way, anyone know how to disable the steering wheel?

Edited July 28, 2015 by Adrian_L

[raadsel]

Flamin' heck.  So is that what the OP "intended"?  How to disable a highly important safety feature?  Unless he has a fetish for running over kid's tricycles, this has to be the time wasting question of the year.

 

(With all due respect.....)

 

By the way, anyone know how to disable the steering wheel?

 

I don't think he understood what the beeping was. Also, as others pointed out, he likely has something covering a sensor that is causing the car to always beep when in reverse.