GeekEV
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Got it. It works a treat! I'll post details later tonight after I get everything back together.
You are correct. As for the difficulty, if you have any mechanical inclinations at all it's not too hard. If you've got a friend who does car stereo work, or something similar, maybe you can rope him into it. You might even be able to get a shop to do it (dunno). Everything needed to make this work is in this thread already, but I'll write it up more concisely later tonight...daniel said:I gather that the car has a button which turns off the noisemaker, and you guys are talking about ways to make it default to OFF rather than ON. Is that correct?
Thanks for this, and for the details now posted in your OP. I may ask my dealer if he'll do this for me, but otherwise I won't try. I'm actually pretty comfortable with a soldering iron (I assembled a few Heathkits back in the day, including an HW8 that worked beautifully) but I'm a complete klutz with the mechanical stuff. Considering that the alternative is just pressing a button every time I start the car...GeekEV said:You are correct. As for the difficulty, if you have any mechanical inclinations at all it's not too hard. If you've got a friend who does car stereo work, or something similar, maybe you can rope him into it. You might even be able to get a shop to do it (dunno). Everything needed to make this work is in this thread already, but I'll write it up more concisely later tonight...daniel said:I gather that the car has a button which turns off the noisemaker, and you guys are talking about ways to make it default to OFF rather than ON. Is that correct?
GeekEV said:I noticed something curious this morning. I had disconnected the VPS module while doing this mod (not necessary) and the startup chime (which I had turned off) revered back to the default. I tried turning it off again, but it didn't work. I then changed it to a different sound, which worked, and changed it back to off. That cleared it out and once again turned my sounds off.
mgoleta said:Can you turn off the VPS without modyfing hardware (even temporarily)?
mwalsh said:mgoleta said:Can you turn off the VPS without modyfing hardware (even temporarily)?
Yes. Once the car is started, you simply push the button to disable it, and it'll stay that way until you manually reactivate it or repeat the off/on cycle in the car.
oakwcj said:... If you should be unfortunate enough to hit a pedestrian, and if the plaintiff's lawyer determined that you had tampered with a safety device, your liability would be practically assured, and you could conceivably be found to have committed gross negligence. Just sayin'
oakwcj said:Nissan developed the pedestrian awareness sound as a result of studies showing that pedestrians respond more to audible signals than to visual cues to protect themselves from cars.
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