It will be worth it if you use the information you learned to silence your car.OK. That was 5+ minutes spent reading this thread that I'll never get back.
I don't want to silence my car. The beeping sound doesn't bother me at all. I was interested in the technical aspect and found that interesting, but then the thread devolved into arguing about whether this was something people should or should not do. I kept hoping it would get back to the technical stuff, but no such luck.
Yep, I liked the technical aspects of the thread too. Speaking of which, looking at the wiring diagram, I'm thinking if you were to use an "on/off volume" type potentiometer, like one would see on an old radio, then when in the "off"" (infinite resistance) position you'd have full volume from the beep and the electric beehive sound, rather than 2/3 volume or whatever the potentiometer OP used provides.I don't want to silence my car. The beeping sound doesn't bother me at all. I was interested in the technical aspect and found that interesting, but then the thread devolved into arguing about whether this was something people should or should not do. I kept hoping it would get back to the technical stuff, but no such luck.
And yet, it is always turned down to zero. So the actual volume at full isn't relevant. Silence is awesome.
How? I also want to be able to speak to my Uber riders without having to roll windows down. Like "hey get out of your dang apartment, I've been waiting here for 10 minutes let's goooooooooo buddy."
I need to know how to do this! It sounds relatively easy. I don't know anything about cars but I can program like a MFer. So I feel like this would require the least amount of work for me, with the results I really want (replace the propulsion sound with something custom). Integration with the garage door buttons is icing on the cake.
I can just imagine a future where a law is made to add certain smells to be emitted from EVs. And then people asking for mods to make them smell like farts, or popcorn, or burnt hair, or bananas. It's a wondrous interesting future where I could potentially charge my Uber riders for different smells on their ride.
Please share the deets on this when you do/if you already did it.
You will need to do what I did and run wires from the pedestrian speaker into the passenger compartment. And then instead of a potentiometer, you can connect any audio source to the speaker.
I did already do it and it's worked perfectly for about a year now. It's fairly easy to install, but it does require removing the frunk panels and bucket which is mostly just clips.
So, I purchased the standard bypass kit just earlier today. Thinking I may want to cancel.
VA has always had yearly safety inspections. Up north in the crazy DC metro area, VA requires emissions inspections also. I get the safety inspection thing, but not emissions. Anyway, most auto places do the safety inspections and they cost $20.
Mostly to provide revenue to the inspection locations. When I lived there I had vehicles failed with half their brake pad life left, and also bulbs which didn't exist on the vehicle.
It’s about $25 in Hawaii. It’s strictly a safety inspection. Horn, headlights and high beams, turn signals, wipers, backup lights and for ev’s the low speed noise depending upon year built. It’s all on a checklist. They also record your mileage as we’re in the process of moving to a mileage and weight based registration fee system. That system will result in a fee decrease for most everyone, including EVs. I was involved in testing it for a year or so in my Tacoma.
