parking brake nag removal

[bbarnett]

Hi,

Removed a few things that were annoying, mostly chimes. (In older, and I mean OLDER pre-90s cars, I'd just pull the entire buzzer out from the fuse box.)

One thing that annoys, is the unnecessary nag to turn on the e-brake. I've driven manuals my entire life, and I never ever apply the emergency-brake on a flat surface. There's zero value doing so, especially in your own driveway. Yes, I apply it on inclines.

I don't need to be unnecessarily nagged, erroneously, on vehicle exit and entry "EBRAKE NOT APPLIED, OMG!".

I've looked at various forscan sub-forums and spreadsheets, but can't seem to find anything specific for this. One thing I did do, is in forscan change "chimes primary source" to "instrument cluster only", which at least change the nag from "surround sound nag effect" to "the cluster only".

Really at this stage I'd be super happy to just remove all sound from the cluster, and cover the middle of the cluster with light-dims. It's not like there's any useful info the centre of the cluster is used for, except to nag you about things.

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[Gregs24]

You do want to apply the brake. It is good to keep the mechanism working reliably long term.

 

[bbarnett]

I did not say I never apply the brake, or infrequently, instead I said I do not apply it when not required. Regardless of your opinion versus my opinion, having the car nag me on exit AND entry, loudly, is just plain absurd and ridiculous.

Hoping someone has a forscan suggestion.

 

[Gregs24]

I did not say I never apply the brake, or infrequently, instead I said I do not apply it when not required. Regardless of your opinion versus my opinion, having the car nag me on exit AND entry, loudly, is just plain absurd and ridiculous.

Hoping someone has a forscan suggestion.

Hahah that is exactly what you did say!

I never ever apply the emergency-brake on a flat surface.

Not sure why it is 'absurd and ridiculous', it seems to annoy you, but just put the brake on - problem solved, no noise - easy!

 

[bbarnett]

Greg, saying I do not apply the brake on a flat surface, doesn't mean I don't apply it on an inclined surface, or that I only park on flat surfaces.

It doesn't matter why it annoys me, or if you care, or if you think I shouldn't care. Telling me to "obey the car" is not helpful. This is the forscan forum, I'm asking a forscan question, telling me of what I'm already aware of isn't helpful. At all.

I see a few people, a minority, running around forums saying "Just cancel that alert, easy!" or "just ignore that sound, easy!" or many variations thereof. Well what's even easier, is to fix it with forscan, then NEVER deal with the stupidity and nagging again.

If any human being nagged me relentlessly like this car does, I'd knock them cold.

 

[Gregs24]

Greg, saying I do not apply the brake on a flat surface, doesn't mean I don't apply it on an inclined surface, or that I only park on flat surfaces.

It doesn't matter why it annoys me, or if you care, or if you think I shouldn't care. Telling me to "obey the car" is not helpful. This is the forscan forum, I'm asking a forscan question, telling me of what I'm already aware of isn't helpful. At all.

I see a few people, a minority, running around forums saying "Just cancel that alert, easy!" or "just ignore that sound, easy!" or many variations thereof. Well what's even easier, is to fix it with forscan, then NEVER deal with the stupidity and nagging again.

If any human being nagged me relentlessly like this car does, I'd knock them cold.

No problem

 

[bbarnett]

Thank you Greg, I appreciate it.

 

[MyTwoCents]

Under the BCM tab there's ParkBrakeChime_Cfg

 

[roadpilot]

Greg, saying I do not apply the brake on a flat surface, doesn't mean I don't apply it on an inclined surface, or that I only park on flat surfaces.

It doesn't matter why it annoys me, or if you care, or if you think I shouldn't care. Telling me to "obey the car" is not helpful. This is the forscan forum, I'm asking a forscan question, telling me of what I'm already aware of isn't helpful. At all.

I see a few people, a minority, running around forums saying "Just cancel that alert, easy!" or "just ignore that sound, easy!" or many variations thereof. Well what's even easier, is to fix it with forscan, then NEVER deal with the stupidity and nagging again.

If any human being nagged me relentlessly like this car does, I'd knock them cold.

Gotta learn how to use the "Ignore" feature when these clowns flap their gums. I do/did.

 

[bbarnett]

Roadpilot, oh if only I could. But if I could ignore things I didn't want to hear, I wouldn't be trying to disable a parking brake nag noise, ROTFL!

edit: Oh an actual feature. OK, noted, thanks. Greg was OK about it though.

MyTwoCents, thanks! Not sure how I missed that, maybe I was searching for 'parking' brake the whole time.

 

[smurfslayer]

Roadpilot, oh if only I could. But if I could ignore things I didn't want to hear, I wouldn't be trying to disable a parking brake nag noise, ROTFL!

edit: Oh an actual feature. OK, noted, thanks. Greg was OK about it though.

MyTwoCents, thanks! Not sure how I missed that, maybe I was searching for 'parking' brake the whole time.

Ever had the parking brake freeze up in Canuck land, eh?

 

[Farmer Fran]

Gotta learn how to use the "Ignore" feature when these clowns flap their gums. I do/did.

Did someone say something?

 

[bbarnett]

Under the BCM tab there's ParkBrakeChime_Cfg

A good try, but it seems to have to do with leaving the parking brake on while driving.

In IPC there's "electric parking brake" enable/disable, and I disabled it. It's now gone from the driver cluster, and no sounds happen. It acts normally otherwise, including auto-release.

In as I can hear it engage, and on an incline tell it's engaged, and tell if it's disengaged, this works for me. Eyesight is not the only sense in existence.

 

[bbarnett]

I did not notice until a few weeks ago, as I was new to forscan, but writes to the bodycm do not work currently with the 2024.

So my IPC changes do the trick, hide the nag, but MyTwoCents's suggestion for the ParkBrakeChime have not been tested yet. It may also work.

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